Our Flag Means Death

2022 - 6 - 2

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HBO Max Renews 'Our Flag Means Death' For Season 2 (Hollywood Outbreak)

HBO Max has renewed the comedy series OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH, from creator-showrunner David Jenkins, Emmy(R)-nominated executive producer and star Taika ...

Thanks to our team at HBO Max, our invested executive producers, and our wildly enthusiastic audience for making another voyage to this world possible.” Sarah Aubrey, Head of Original Content, HBO Max quote: “We are so happy to bring this truly one of a kind series back! Now they have to survive it.

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Our Flag Means Death's Season 2 Renewal: The Sigh of Relief ... (Vanity Fair)

Just in time for Pride month, the HBO Max pirate comedy will resume the high seas adventures—and romance—of Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard.

But there are already many fan theories about what might happen in a second season, from a violent reunion between Stede and Blackbeard to Stede growing a beard (something Jenkins, who often engages with fans on Twitter, hinted at in our interview in April.) Meeting fan expectations can be deeply complicated for any show or franchise, and there’s no way everything Our Flag Means Death viewers are hoping for can possibly come true in a single season. But Jenkins, who hired a diverse writers room to help him reimagine real pirate history (“I want buy-in and pushbacks and on some level, blessing, with which history we’re going to revise and why. “Thanks to our team at HBO Max, our invested executive producers, and our wildly enthusiastic audience for making another voyage to this world possible.”

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'Our Flag Means Death' renewed for Season 2 (Mashable)

Created by David Jenkins and starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi, this pirate comedy became a major hit on HBO Max.

There was never any doubt in my mind that Our Flag Means Death would be renewed for a Season 2. Our Flag Means Death became a hit during its 10-episode run this past March and April, gaining attention for its offbeat humor and excellent portrayal of queer relationships. Annoyance over the delayed announcement aside, I'm extremely excited to see where Jenkins and his team take the story.

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'Our Flag Means Death' Renewed for Season 2 at HBO Max (Variety)

'Our Flag Means Death,' the HBO Max series starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi, has been renewed for a second season.

The first season of “Our Flag Means Death” received generally positive reviews from critics. Comedy series “ Our Flag Means Death” has been renewed for Season 2, HBO Max has announced. The crew of the Revenge are setting sail once again.

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The Fate of Our Flag Means Death Revealed (E! Online)

Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby are set to return to the high seas in season two of HBO Max's Our Flag Means Death. Plus, find out which other shows are ...

Now they have to survive it." On June 1, HBO Max confirmed the hit series Our Flag Means Death will set sail on another season. they found love.

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Our Flag Means Death is setting sail for a heartbreaking season 2 (The Verge)

HBO has just renewed Our Flag Means Death for a second season of stories about swashbuckling pirates falling in love on the high seas.

When we spoke with Jenkins earlier this year about season 2 before it was officially announced, he teased that Our Flag Means Death’s next chapters will explore the emotional headspaces Stede and Blackbeard find themselves in following their falling out. Just in time for this year’s Pride Month, HBO has announced that Our Flag Means Death will return for a second season of stories about swashbuckling and love on the high seas. “The pirate stuff is there, but it’s about those things,” Jenkins said.

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Our Flag Means Death to batten down the hatches for a second ... (The A.V. Club)

As an early Pride Month gift, HBO Max has renewed Taika Waititi's endearing pirate comedy for another voyage.

For those who haven’t fallen in love with the show yet, Our Flag Means Death follows a would-be pirate, Stede (Rhys Darby), who abandons his life as an upstanding gentleman for a life on the high seas. Thankfully, HBO Max saw the benefit in people loving the show and made the tough decision to finally announce a second season. Our Flag Means Death was at the center of a number of Venn diagrams, the nexus of Taika Waititi comedies, queer romance, and lavish production designs.

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Will There Be An <i>Our Flag Means Death</i> Season 2? (TownandCountrymag.com)

The HBO Max pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death became a sleeper hit, and has officially been picked up for a second outing.

The exact reason for the delay in renewal has not been released, though insiders have suggested that the issue may have arisen from scheduling conflicts. The hashtag #RenewOurFlagMeansDeath trended worldwide consistently over the weeks following the show's finale, and it topped the list of most watched new streaming shows for seven consecutive weeks according to data compiled by Parrot Analytics. However, news about the show's renewal was slow to come, giving rise to speculation that it could be dropped by the streaming service despite its word-of-mouth success.

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Our Flag Means Death Renewed for Season 2 at HBO Max (TVLine)

“We are so happy to bring this truly one of a kind series back!” said Sarah Aubrey, HBO Max's head of original content. “We congratulate [creator] David [ ...

“We are so happy to bring this truly one of a kind series back!” said Sarah Aubrey, HBO Max’s head of original content. Thanks to our team at HBO Max, our invested executive producers, and our wildly enthusiastic audience for making another voyage to this world possible.” After a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard (Waititi), Stede’s friendship with the man became romantic throughout the season — and now, per HBO Max’s renewal announcement, Stede and Blackbeard will “have to survive” love in the show’s new episodes.

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'Our Flag Means Death' Renewed For Season 2 After An ... (Forbes)

It's been trending for nearly two months as fans rally to “save” a show that by all accounts, never really should have needed saving at all.

And in general, many appreciated the surprise that this seemed like it was just going to be a pirate version of What We Do In The Shadows, another Waititi project, but instead blossomed into one of the most compelling romances of the year...that happened to be between two pirate captains. There’s no return date set for the show yet, but barring any delays, it could be as soon as early next spring, with season 1 ending in March 2022. The explosion of fan art and tributes to the show was like nothing most series ever see. My initial theory was that maybe Taika Waititi was just very busy, very busy guy that he is, but interviews with him did not seem to indicate this was the case, and he was waiting around just like everyone else. Then they get rewarded for “listening to the fans.” It’s been trending for nearly two months as fans rally to “save” a show that by all accounts, never really should have needed saving at all.

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Our Flag Means Death and Black Sails got different audiences for ... (Polygon)

That's in no small part thanks to its centering a romance between two men, Stede Bonnet and Edward “Blackbeard” Teach, which captured the hearts of many, ...

In a way, Black Sails and Our Flag Means Death always dance on the edge of tragedy. To take the most well-known of pirates and to reframe them as traumatized queer outcasts is not intended as a historical rewrite but as a rebuttal of the very idea of a history written by the conquerors. It’s not just a romance between Stede and Edward but an entire cast full of queer characters — a queerness that in its own context largely feels unremarkable, with the crew quietly tolerant and respectful of each other throughout the series. Pirates are a way to recontextualize those who society “others,” who are made outcasts and fringe by the mainstream. Not that it’s hard to read queerness into existing histories, even if the terminology and conception of the ideas differed at the time. They had a motive to lie, and so did the people in London. [...] It gives us the room to try to tell a story that will hopefully feel real. Streaming services have come to rule the roost and fracture the monoculture, and the pandemic has only further shaped that. It was the sense of utter betrayal and I wasn’t surprised because I knew it was going to be a massive thing.” The degree of discomfort among men, that simply by being gay Flint no longer adhered to their rigid standard of a male icon, is hardly something that’s gone away. The reveal that he’s gay and that his mission is to rebel against the British Empire, to create a nation free of its rule, complicates everything he has done and will do, turning him from a mercenary into a revolutionary. To be sure, it has its fair share of bloody violence and sex; it was seen as Game of Thrones on the high seas among critics. The show skyrocketed in popularity for weeks after its debut, both in terms of streaming metrics and the outpouring of fan art. Perhaps some of the infatuation stems from how Our Flag Means Death marketed its romance story — namely, it didn’t. Those initial trailers, teasers, and handful of episodes focused on the comedy hijinks of Stede Bonnet and his inept band of pirates.

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