I had Starz free for several years but it ran out. This pirate show looked interesting so I considered pirate downloading it, but your opinion of it put me off.
I watched a couple of Starz series, they all seem to get canceled. “Boss”, I enjoyed a lot and was sorry to see canceled. I found the plot very interesting and I have a thing for Kathleen Robertson, who appeared nude every other episode.
“Camelot”, was stupid but had Eva Green. A few eps of “Magic City” before my Starz ran out, Olga Kurylenko. Never saw their acclaimed “Spartacus” other than certain lewd scenes made available on certain websites.
No HBO, never seen GOT, other than a certain scene of the blond dragon egg girl not enjoying her wedding night. But I feel like I should watch it due to the cultural significance it’s seemed to achieve.
nuff said
Cancelling “Boss” was a disappointment. Got too close to the ugly reality of Chicago/Combiner politics. It had low ratings.
“Magic City” was OK, great period sets and costumes, but it seemed to lack a compelling storyline. The lead actor (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) was no James Gandolfini, whom I found boring, but the real star was Danny Huston. I’d rather he have been the central character, a full on psychopath. It was like he was channeling his dad, John, from “Chinatown.”
I’m waiting to see if “Penny Dreadful” is any good (it also has Eva Green), but it sounds like they put all the late 19th century horror stories into a big blender (though they admitted as such).
I have yet to watch GOT, but when I saw it had over 250 characters, that was just too much to take. You need a soap opera-style program (with 5 hour eps a week) over a period of years to begin to absorb all of that. I watch the remaining 4 soaps on the networks (General Hospital being one, where you have over 50 or so active characters, and having watched for about 12 years, I at least am familiar with the motivations, histories, etc.).
Yeah Black Sails is a dud. Vikings is better, and I’ve found the new series The Musketeers to be fantastic.