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From Mulder and Scully to Marge and Homer: your favourite TV couples

Slow-burn office crushes that left you weeping, sitcoms that made you fall in love and vampire shows that changed you for ever: Guardian readers pick their ultimate television romances

The Guardian - UK

Our Flag Means Death Canceled After Two Successful Seasons

Our Flag Means Death, a beloved Max series, has been cancelled after two seasons, despite its positive LGBTQ+ representation and engaging plotlines.

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Review: HBO's Comedic Take on Pirate Life

The pirates in Our Flag Means Death end up more interested in skirting imperial powers than in plundering.

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Our Flag Means Death runs aground as queer pirate comedy Max show cancelled after 2 seasons

Max's beloved comedy pirate series has been sunk by Warner Bros. Discovery after two highly-rated seasons.

TechRadar

Signed up for Max with its great Black Friday streaming deal? Watch these 7 brilliant shows first

Max With Ads is available at an unmissable Black Friday price – and these are the TV series you need to watch first.

TechRadar

The Saddest TV Twist of 2023 Could Have a Silver Lining

The 'Our Flag Means Death' star was a fan-favorite, though his character was written out. But he may just find a way back.

Inverse

How the Fiercest Fandom in Television is Changing Hollywood for the Better

The Max show has cultivated a huge following, but how much agency should a fandom have?

Inverse

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2022's Greatest Surprise TV Hit Has Become 2023's Biggest Disappointment

The smash hit historical romantic comedy doubles down on the romance but forgets about the other parts.

Inverse

Loved Heartstopper season 2? Watch these 6 feel-good comedy shows on Netflix, Max, Disney Plus, and more next

Feeling blue after finishing Heartstopper season 2? Stick one of these fantastic comedies on next.

TechRadar

New BBC Blackbeard-centric comedy Our Flag Means Death has already wowed across the pond

New Zealand's comedy pairing of Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi star in a comedic retelling of Blackbeard's friendship with noted terrible pirate, Stede Bonnet

Bristol Post

The 10 best TV shows (and 3 best dance sequences) of 2022

This year was supposed to be the year that television nosedived into a creative slump. Worriers theorized that the darkest days of the pandemic had disrupted so many productions that there'd be nothing left worth watching by the time 2022 rolled around: Think of it as the entertainment equivalent of…

Los Angeles Times

How 'Our Flag Means Death' fans fixed historical fiction's biggest pitfall

The HBO Max pirate rom-com was a runaway hit, but what happens when real-life figures become beloved characters?

Inverse

"Our Flag Means Death's" pirate accuracy

HBO Max's comedy chronicles the life of a gentleman pirate who runs into Blackbeard, played by Taika Waititi

Salon

Gentleman pirates, shipwrecks and Stede Bonnet: what Our Flag Means Death gets right about the Golden Age of Piracy

HBO’s new show Our Flag Means Death has brought the Golden Age of Piracy to life on TV, chronicling the life of the bumbling gentleman pirate, Stede Bonnet.

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Inverse

'Our Flag Means Death' Season 2? Here’s what you need to know about HBO Max’s pirate comedy

Will 'Our Flag Means Death' be continuing the adventures of Stede Bonnet and Ed Teach in Season 2? Everything we know about the HBO Max pirate comedy.

Los Angeles Times

Sleeper hit 'Our Flag Means Death' left us hanging. Season 2 would 'reorient' things

The little pirate show that could, "Our Flag Means Death," has turned out to be anything but little — in terms of both ambition and viewer appeal. Part romantic comedy, part period piece, the series is surprisingly large in scope, and it's swiftly emerged as a sleeper hit: Since its…

Chicago Tribune

‘Our Flag Means Death’ review: Pirates in love, but don’t ask about the captain’s plantation

What if two real-life 18th-century pirate captains didn’t just cross paths, but fell in love? That’s the slow-burning premise of “Our Flag Means Death,” the HBO Max comedy series that premiered last month starring Rhys Darby as the blundering gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet and Taika Waititi as the fearsome Blackbeard,…

Los Angeles Times

Review: Pirates are no stranger to pop culture. Taika Waititi's new show adds 'polite menace'

In the fine, funny, oddly sweet and surprisingly fact-based period comedy "Our Flag Means Death," beginning Thursday on HBO Max, Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet, a wealthy landowner who, in 1717, bored with his life, leaves his wife and children to become a pirate captain. It's a job for which…

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‘Our Flag Means Death’ takes to the seas on a pirate’s midlife crisis

Stede Bonnet’s midlife crisis didn’t involve a trophy wife or a red convertible. He became a pirate.

Inverse

'Our Flag Means Death' review: HBO Max’s pirate comedy is 2022's most surprising new show

The genre-bending pirate adventure is hard to define but easy to enjoy.

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