Ok I’ll bite whats black sails
funny answer: its a work place comedy about thieves and scammers trying to out-thieve and scam each other and the friends they made along the way while also saying fuck the English empire in 1715.
general answer: its a prequel to treasure island
serious answer: well its about everything above, contextualized within a community of pirates who’re trying to make new providence island in the bahamas self-governing place, resisting british rule and authority (that which they were all subjected to in some traumatic way or another). its about the inescapability of capitalism and the social constructs of villainy. it’s about stories and not necessarily about the truth, but how a constructed truth can be wielded if believed hard enough by people. it’s chiefly about rebellion, why people become pirates, and what piracy in theory actually means to those that are and those that aren’t.
