Because the night belongs to lovers, Our Flag Means Death is back with a brand new trailer for season 2!
The new trailer focuses mostly on the relationship between Stede (Rhys Darby) and Ed (Taika Waititi), also known as the famous pirate Blackbeard.
“I’ve let him down, I should’ve just told him how I feel,” a contemplative Stede says. “I will find him.”
“Look, Captain, you know Blackbeard’s gonna murder you,” his crewmate Oluwande (Samson Kayo) replies.
“What? No, why would he do that?” a shocked Stede asks.
“You dumped him,” Oluwande replies.
While Stede seems to think that once they reunite everything will be fine, because the two are just on a mutual “break,” Blackbeard has gone completely off the rails.
“I’ve never seen Blackbeard like this,” a pirate says, before we see Blackbeard crying, drinking, smoking, and being violent.
“But it’s a new day,” Blackbeard pledges. “No more booze, no more drugs. And more importantly, no more Stede.” Of course, the next scene we see is Stede and Blackbeard reuniting with Stede’s “Hello, Edward.”
The trailer also shows us plenty of swashbuckling action, new characters (including Minnie Driver’s queer pirate Anne Bonny and Ruibo Qian’s mysterious merchant Susan), returning faces (Leslie Jones is back as Spanish Jackie!), and uptight villains.
“You don’t know the first thing about piracy,” Blackbeard’s first mate Izzy Hands says in the trailer. “It’s not about glory, It’s about belonging to something.”
Our hearts certainly belong to this pirate crew and show, and we can’t wait to watch when season 2 drops on Max on October 5.
The new season sees returning stars Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi joined by Samson Kayo, Vico Ortiz, Ewan Bremner, Joel Fry, Matthew Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O’Neill, Navid Fane, Samba Schutte, Nat Fax, and Leslie Jones. New additions include Qian, Driver, Madeleine Sami, Anapela Polataivao, Erroll Shand, and Bronson Pinchot.
Watch the trailer below.