"This story needs s/one to come out of this ordeal w some humanity left" http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/20/black-sails-xxxii-review … Indeed. #BlackSails gets grittier by the ep
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Took me a while to get over the brutality of XXXI; there's more in XXXII, but it's hard to stay away from
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The ponderous, eloquent dialogue always served to signal coming storms, but this season, it feels like heralding an all-engulfing tsunami.
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Won't be surprised if the Spaniards, so far an absent menace from the story, close the season by storming Nassau & laying waste to everyone
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I so bloody called it :) Magnificent/ominous twist in the tale (and well directed), but it felt unavoidable
#BlackSailspic.twitter.com/l1gGZGz39Z
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Halfway through, XXXIII (
#BlackSails mid-S4) spells game over for everyone, but the show's compelling as ever, constantly upping the stakes.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I'm lagging back watching it on purpose, partly b/c I don't want it to end, and b/c it's too reminiscent of contemporary gritty desperation.
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While partly beholden to history & fiction,
#BlackSails is largely free to wreak havoc compared to book-adapted shows; as I'm sure it will.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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"A lot of amazing moving parts this season" (
@TheMattFowler) http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/27/black-sails-xxxiii-review … S4#BlackSails is like a Rubik cube of intrigue/action1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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#BlackSails gets harder to watch the closer it draws to the end. By ep 6, odds are bleakest & sacrifices enormous, yet conflict rages on1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
It's not just the endless violence & a great cast being whittled down, it's that most characters retain their humanity through the brutality
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It would've been easier to watch a show w a neat heroes/villains delineation & contained violence, but real conflict isn't clear cut either.
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Still,
#BlackSails has an amazing drive & displine of storytelling, while avoiding most contrivance pitfalls common to the format.0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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