When Crossbones wants to be a pirate show, it’s a damn good one. Maybe they should make me showrunner for season two: “Okay, John, I want you to really Malkovich this place up, throw...
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Crossbones review: “Beggarman”
“Beggarman” was probably the best episode of Crossbones to date. It’s remarkable that the show was able to pull this off, considering that Blackbeard was largely absent from the proceedings, still recovering from last...
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Crossbones review: “A Hole in the Head”
Mark your calendars, ladies and gentlemen – Crossbones, season one, episode six, “A Hole in the Head,” the main character finally showed a flaw! I was surprised too. But it turns out that Thomas...
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Crossbones review: “The Return”
Crossbones committed the cardinal sin of a pirate show with “The Return” – it bored me. I find myself on the verge of parroting my review of “Antoinette.” It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good,...
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Crossbones review: “Antoinette”
I’m not sure what to say about “Antoinette.” It was a perfectly serviceable hour of television. It didn’t make any major stumbles, and didn’t improve drastically on what Crossbones already is. It wasn’t bad,...
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Crossbones review: “The Man Who Killed Blackbeard”
It’s fitting that Crossbones titled its third episode “The Man Who Killed Blackbeard,” because the show finally decides to reveal its true villain, and it looks like it’s going to be a good one....
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Crossbones review: “The Covenant”
When I was reviewing Turn – for all of two episodes – my chief complaint was that I wanted a damn spy show and I kept getting a historical drama. That’s to be expected when...
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Crossbones review: “The Devil’s Dominion”
The summer TV season is here, so it’s fitting that NBC would fill Hannibal‘s time slot with Crossbones, which certainly has promise but comes nowhere close to filling Hannibal‘s shoes. Crossbones is the story...
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First trailer for NBC’s “Crossbones”
Avast, ye hearties! It be I, the ol’ scurvy sea-dog Trevor, and all ye land-lubbers…fuck it, I can’t keep this joke up. Here’s a trailer for NBC’s Crossbones, starring John Malkovich as Blackbeard: http://youtu.be/gJdrrHm3HhY...
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