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Oh, absolutely!

But I recommend it with some caveats. Black Sails is a fantastic series. It’s a gripping narrative with captivating characters that deals with very powerful themes of power, institutionalized oppression, systemic violence, civilization, race, homophobia, the way narratives shape our understanding of the world, etc etc. It’s fun and funny and thrilling and heartbreaking and gets more and more LGBT as it goes on. It’s a goddamn good time.

But, especially to anyone coming to it fresh off Harlots who’s looking for a similar experience, I would warn: it is far more brutal than Harlots. There’s a lot of explicit violence, including sexual assault, and I think that the sex-worker characters/community are, overall, not handled in as sensitive a manner as Harlots has accustomed us to (though there is one very major character who’s a sex worker). I’ve seen a lot of people say that they feel that season 1 in particular is not up to the standard of the rest of the series – a little more stereotypical, less nuanced than the later seasons, somewhat more subject to problems with how it treats its characters (especially the marginalized ones) and handles its themes. Personally, s1 still drew me in right away, but I do think all that is a fair criticism.

penny 40 with penny 23 is chaotic good and your husband is really onto something here