Our Flag Means Death Season 2: Release date & everything we know so far
HBO MaxOur Flag Means Death Season 2 is on the horizon so here’s everything we know about it so far, including cast details.
The HBO Max romantic comedy, which follows blundering pirate captain Stede Bonnet as he attempts to make a name for himself as a pirate while simultaneously falling in love with Blackbeard, has been one of the most talked-about shows of the year.
The series, created by David Jenkins and directed by Taika Waititi – who stars as Blackbeard – ended on an emotional cliffhanger for its first season, which means that fans had been begging for Season 2.
Thankfully, a second installment was announced during Pride Month, and now there’s plenty of news surrounding the upcoming season. So here’s everything we know so far.
Is there an Our Flag Means Death Season 2 release date?
The second season will premiere its first three episodes on Max on October 5, 2023. Two episodes will air on Thursdays weekly until the finale on October 26.
Is there an Our Flag Means Death Season 2 trailer?
Yes, Max posted the season’s trailer on August 30, 2023.
Our Flag Means Death Season 2 cast: Who is starring in the next season?
Thankfully, it seems like most of the Our Flag Means Death cast will be back for Season 2.
This cast list includes:
- Rhys Darby as Stede Bonnet
- Taika Waititi as Blackbeard
- Vico Ortiz as Jim
- Con O’ Neil as Izzy
- Samson Kayo as Oluwande
- Ewen Bremner as Nathaniel
- Joel Fry as Frenchie
- Kristian Nairn as We John Feeney
- Nat Faxon as The Swede
- Leslie Jones as Spanish Jackie
- Nathan Foad as Lucius Spriggs
Initially, it seemed like Lucius Spriggs could have died at the end of Season 1, after Blackbeard tossed him off the boat, but he is thankfully expected to return at some point.
Sadly, someone who is not returning is Guz Khan, who played one of Blackbeard’s crewmates. He won’t be returning due to industry and production reasons, according to his Twitter.
The show’s new cast members include Ruibo Qian, Madeleine Sami, Anapela Polataivao, and Erroll Shand, and guest stars Minnie Driver and Bronson Pinchot.
Do we know what will happen in Our Flag Means Death Season 2?
“After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede became captain of the pirate ship Revenge,” the official synopsis reads.
“Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes changed after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard, played by Waititi. To their surprise, the wildly different Stede and Blackbeard found more than friendship on the high seas… they found love. Now they have to survive it.”
Season 1 ended with Stede and Blackbeard realizing they loved each other, but inevitably disaster struck. After a dangerous encounter, Stede ran back to his wife, abandoning Blackbeard, who fell back into his old violent ways due to this heartbreak.
These violent ways involved marooning most of Stede’s crew, though he did kidnap two of them to keep them onboard. He also pushed Lucius into the ocean to drown, so clearly, there’s a lot of damage that needs to be resolved next season.
Stede managed to come to his senses after a heart-to-heart with his wife – and after she tried to murder him – and he set sail once again, and the last we see of him is him arriving on the island upon which his crew has been marooned.
“The show is the relationship,” explained David Jenkins in an interview with Decider.
“We end in a place where there is this breakup. What happens after a breakup between these two people who, one’s realized he’s in love, and the other one is hurt in a way that he’s never been hurt before? What does that do to each of them in an action, pirate world with them trying to find each other again?”
There’s also still the problem of Izzy, who according to Jenkins in an interview with Verge, is “deeply in love with Blackbeard, and it’s a very dysfunctional kind of love, and he’s like the jilted spouse who’s losing his man to fucking Stede Bonnet, and he can’t believe this is happening.” So he’ll likely be an antagonist again next season.
Ultimately, there’ll no doubt be plenty of comedy, romance, and pirate hijinks in every episode, and we certainly can’t wait.
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Our Flag Means Death Season 1 is currently available to stream on HBO Max.
