OurFlagMeansDeath creator david_jenkins__ breaks down the season's final two episodes, Stede and Blackbeard's biggest moments, and more.
Editor's note: The below interview contains major spoilers for Episodes 9 and 10 of Our Flag Means Death.
DAVID JENKINS: It's the only reason to make the show. If you didn't do that, it would just be weird. I mean, you're using the rom-com beats. You're using these like they're together. And it's funny because so we're so habituated to be like bromance, bromance, bromance, and it's such a simple move to put them together. I was watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on the airplane the other day, and if you add one shot to that movie, that's a romance.
JENKINS: I guess I really... I get kind of bored. How much pirate can you do? They're going to rob stuff. They're going to steal ships. There's only so many pirate stories you can do. So if you're going to do a workplace story, I mean, you're essentially having this... You'd have this same amount of relationships in Grey's Anatomy in the ER. So it's standard. It's the most standard.
JENKINS: They really just honored that scene, and the thing they brought to it is their natural connection and really playing it honestly with each other, and listening to each other, and the way they look at each other, and how tender they are with each other. That scene was hard to write. I rewrote it about a dozen times and shifted beats and cut it, and then re-added stuff. I think... just getting a sense that there was a plan, they had a future.
JENKINS: Yeah, that was the problem for me in the story. I knew that I wanted to have the end where he goes home, because you need to give Mary her day in court. I just wanted to know from Mary's perspective what happened and then to see that, yeah, they're friends. They actually like each other and are surprised that they like each other, and it took her being so mad that she was going to kill him to break through.
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