Our Flag Means Death: Thread 3. It's still utterly brilliant. We are still obsessed.

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Ahoy again mateys! Set sail aboard thread 3 where we still wax lyrical about our favourite show, its cast, its music, fan edits, fan fiction and more 😁(there may also be just a little obsessing over our fabulous leads - pictures extremely welcome)!

If you haven’t yet seen Our Flag Means Death, what are you waiting for? Go watch it (on BBC iPlayer), then come back here and join us. But be warned, some of you may find yourself as hooked as we are 🎣.

You may have heard that this is a comedy about pirates and think it's not for you. But it’s actually a show about self-discovery, healing and found-family with a love story at its heart. The joint leads are both damaged by abusive backgrounds and want what the other has. The show is about their healing and their respective journeys. It’s tender, romantic, funny, emotionally intelligent and utterly refreshing. It subverts genre expectations. There is comedy, absurdity and a good amount of heartbreak and despair - sometimes in the same scene! The acting is outstanding (Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby especially). But the writing, music, costumes, sets, the sheer attention to detail – for a show with only 18 half-hour episodes it is still keeping us talking, two full threads and many re-watches later.

If you think this might appeal, do watch it and come back and talk to us. It would be lovely if more were to join our crew. But it's a show that needs time. The 2nd lead arrives in episode 3, so you need to give it at least 4 episodes as that’s when the tone changes and the main story starts. It still took me several more episodes to fully appreciate what I was watching, but by then I was hooked and had to immediately watch it all over again. If you like Good Omens, What We Do in the Shadows, Ghosts or even Bridgerton, this might be the show for you.

(I’ve kept this spoiler free, but if you scroll down you will no doubt find many, so beware!)

Thread 1: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5008593-our-flag-means-death-its-utterly-brilliant-and-i-am-obsessed?reply=135294204
Thread 2 : https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5076581-our-flag-means-death-thread-2-still-utterly-brilliant-and-we-are-still-obsessed?reply=136060611

Oh yes! Yes! Yes! 😁😁😁😁 Who else wants to come???

I wasn't thinking about where the ill-advised tattoo could be but obviously now I am 😄It'll probably take her about three more chapters to tell us. As for what it looks like, maybe something to do with art, though less lewd than @Phineyj's suggestion.

I'd love a Stede to come home to - all that enthusiasm and curiosity, plus so much kindness. Also, very importantly, his library.

I imagined the bath as the one s.1 Ed has his breakdown in, telling Stede about his father.
The comments are always lovely, they always give me things to ponder.

I knew they’d get distracted by the fine furnishings!

Lovely update, beautiful writing as always.

Having re-read, it's on his mid/lower back and has a curving shape, like an O. Or the part Stede glimpses does.

I am thrilled, however, to have my suggestion described as lewd 😂.

I commented for the first time today. I was ‘mildly’ hysterical at the time 🤣

@Phineyj Having re-read, it's on his mid/lower back and has a curving shape, like an O. Or the part Stede glimpses does.

Could be your pipe picture then (assuming that tattoo and the ill-advised on are the same).

I am thrilled, however, to have my suggestion described as lewd 😂.

You're welcome 😁I'm glad I wasn't presuming impure thoughts where there weren't any.

Wow a whole weekend just of OFMD, I didn't know such a thing existed - what bliss!! I'm all in😊subject to checking out the finer detail of logistics and how much it all costs etc.

Cost is the big issue. I haven't even looked yet. I suspect it may be out of reach, but I'll take a look this weekend.

I wasn't thinking about where the ill-advised tattoo could be but obviously now I am 😄

I have to say I certainly am! And in my imagination it's not on his back (sorry Stede, you'll always have my heart, but...)

£130 for a regular ticket, doable- £260 for gold. (Maybe not so)
Twenty minutes from me….. I don’t think I’m going to be able to talk myself out of this one 😳

I'm interested, but I want to know if Rhys has confirmed first as someone has commented about this promoter previously telling fibs about him appearing 😬

The tattoo’s going to be Trust No One, surely.

I think it has to be, given the bath snippet we have had.

Oh I honestly hadn’t seen the snippet. That was a guess.

New fic - seven chapters from an author I have apparently followed at some point. 7 chapters and complete.

I was looking at that earlier. Nomadsland is a favourite of several of us - we've talked about Throat GOAT and 'neuroscientists' on here.

Oh that's who it is!

It’s funny cos it’s true (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs)

🤣 Oh it certainly is! Good find!

That fic is very funny (the 'Mausoleum' one). I see Nomadsland is still struggling with catchy titles, however!

'Rinse and Repeat' was good fun also. Fantastic Alma characterisation.

Lovely fan art here for ‘Rinse and Repeat’

https://www.tumblr.com/clairegregoryau/756583768406507520/obsessed-with-hairdressersstede-and-ed-in-rinse?source=share

The mirrors are a nice touch.

Reverse big bang is throwing up some nice ones.

This is v sweet (Tour de France author) https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/146334253?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_797976259

Loving the infinity mirrors.

I must say that my own hairdresser can do a better job of fancy plaits than that though!

Every time I see your post I wonder which one the mausoleum one is, because I don't remember a fic set in a mausoleum 🤣 I mean, I only read it few days ago and I've now gone back to it several times looking for this fic in a mausoleum to realise that it's the spy-pharma one. You are not wrong when you say Nomadsland has a problem with titles - they seem to bear no relation to the story at all. 🤣