The Strange True Story That Inspired the New Pirate Comedy Our Flag Means Death

“It’s crazy that this is based on real events,” says David Jenkins, the creator of the new series Our Flag Means Death. And he’s not incorrect. The comedy, streaming now on HBO Max, follows a very rich 18th-century Brit named Stede Bonnet who, for reasons at first unknown, his decided to upend his life of comfort, family, and piles of money to take up the somewhat unexpected new hobby of being a pirate, a job at which he was terrible, and somehow befriending another, much greater pirate in the process. And it’s based, believe it or not, on a true… Read Full Article