Captain Flint and his pirates, twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island".
I tuned into this expecting the worst, so I've been surprised at how the series grabbed me at the beginning and has kept my attention. Granted, I don't have it marked as "must-see TV" on my calendar, the way I did with new episodes of "The Sopranos," but I've seen the first 6 episodes and am looking forward to the final 2 of the season.

The plot has gone off in directions I didn't anticipate, and that's good. The story line is much less predictable than, say, "House of Cards," which NEVER surprises me beyond those times when utter disbelief rears its head.

I don't understand the reviewers who say the characters look clean and pristine. Quite the contrary - most of them look dirty and the worse for wear at all times, even when they fall into the water! One can almost smell them through the screen.

The only drawbacks to the series is that the dialogue is often mumbled, which - combined with the heavy Brit accents - can make understanding difficult and there are a lot of night/dark scenes that are really hard to make out. The worst drawback is the insufferable theme song - loud, boring and musically vapid. At least there's no music underlying the episode itself.
Duration: 3 Discs HD DVD-9 Plastic Bag Packing Ver. ( All Episodes Complete Series )