Top Favorite Episodes of "BLACK SAILS" Season Three (2016)
Below is a list of my favorite episodes from Season Three of the STARZ series, "BLACK SAILS", a television prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel, "Treasure Island". Created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine, the series starred Toby Stephens, Hannah New and Luke Arnold:
"TOP FAVORITE EPISODES OF "BLACK SAILS" SEASON THREE (2016)
1. (3.10) "XXXVIII" - Former pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold and the British forces come for the pirates led by Captain James Flint during a battle planned by Quartermaster John Silver. Captain Jack Rackham and Anne Bonny unite with Captain Edward Teach aka Blackbeard’s fleet during the battle. Billy Bones creates the "Long John Silver" legend by killing a pardoned pirate captain in Nassau and blaming Silver for the murder.
2. (3.09) "XXVII" - Flint prepares for the upcoming battle, while Billy plots to save the captured Captain Charles Vane from being hanged. Nassau madam Max must decide who she can trust. And Eleanor Guthrie finds herself in charge of Nassau when her lover, Governor Woodes Rogers falls ill with fever.
3. (3.03) "XXII" - The conflict between Flint and Silver escalates as starvation and dehydration set in within the Walrus crew, while stuck in becalmed sea. Woodes and Eleanor arrive to troubling circumstances in Nassau. Blackbeard develops a plan to help those pirates not pardoned make their escape from the island, following Rogers’ arrival.
4. (3.07) "XXV" - Flint, Silver and the Walrus crew return to Nassau to recruit more men and acquire weapons. The captured Rackham’s fate is tied with the Spanish’s demand for the gems that used to be part of the Urca gold. Eleanor and Rogers begin a romantic relationship.
5. (3.04) "XXII" - Flint and his crew end up captured and imprisoned by mysterious islanders, who proved to be a community of enslaved fugitives known as Maroons. After escaping from Nassau, Vane learns from Blackbeard that Eleanor is with Woodes Rogers. While helping a group of enslaved fugitives make their escape from Nassau, Mr. Scott and the others encounter a group of hostile British Marines.