Everyone’s obsessed with the gay pirates of ‘Black Sails’ now that the adventure drama is streaming on Netflix

Image Credit: ‘Black Sails,’ Netflix/Starz

Stumbling onto a hidden gem TV show once it begins streaming on Netflix can feel like coming across buried treasure, so it’s fitting that the latest series to get the “Netflix bump” in popularity is the pirate drama Black Sails.

The adventure first aired on Starz back in 2014 and ran for four seasons. Part prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s lit classic Treasure Island, part historical fiction, the series drew from real people and places of the past to tell an epic story set during the “Golden Age Of Piracy” filled with sea-faring scallawags, scandal, and sex (it was a Starz show, after all!).

Black Sails ended its run in 2017, but nearly a decade after its premiere, its found

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