The Lost Pirate Kingdom

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This series aired on Netflix in 2021. The show features talking head interviews interspersed with dramatized vignettes, in which John Rackham is played by Jack Waldouck and Anne Bonny by Mia Tomlinson.

According to the show, Anne’s mother died before Anne was 13. In 1715 she is 16 years old and living in Nassau. She tries to find James a job at the Florida wrecks, but Benjamin Hornigold rejects him.

Anne with James (George Watkins)

Anne cheats on James with Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach. She tells Benjamin that her father raped her.

Jack hangs around in scenes set in 1718 and tells Benjamin that Charles Vane was arrested. Anne lectures Benjamin about it, and she and Jack meet for the first time.

Anne and Jack sharing a scene with Benjamin Hornigold (Sam Callis)

When Woodes Rogers arrives in Nassau, James delivers Charles’s letter to him. Jack leaves Nassau with Charles, planning to raise enough money to buy Anne off of James.

Charles Vane (Tom Padley) creating a toxic work environment

Anne and Jack go to James’s work (lol) to bring him the money for their wife swap, but he is offended and tells Woodes Rogers. Woodes has Anne held down to be beaten (according to a talking head, there is “a law” to beat an adulterous woman) and offers the whip to Jack, but somehow (?) Anne gets free (?) and grabs a knife (?) and threatens Woodes.

Woodes Rogers (Kevin Howarth) lecturing the children

3 thoughts on “The Lost Pirate Kingdom”

  1. I remember vividly the Talking Heads were almost universally terrible. Some people I expected better from like ET Fox. Some I expected like Colin Woodard still riding the high of Republic of Pirates after a decade. Also apparently Rebecca Simon appeared, I genuinely cannot remember her showing up. I should do a hate rewatch and take a shot everytime someone uses the wrong General History sketch or bad cgi is hsed

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    1. I had a good time watching it the second time around. LOL. I love some trashy fun, it just unfortunately assumes an air of authority by presenting itself as a documentary. (What else is new.) I have to give the historians the benefit of the doubt because TV is ruthless about taking soundbites out of context. That being said there are some statements that are FALSE pure and simple…………..

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      1. I watched it with friends and we very much think the Atlantic slave historian they got was being taken out of context. She clearly knew her subject but it overlapped so little with piracy that something strongly feels off. Also trashy fun is right. I love that they reused Anne Bonny almost stabbing Woodes Rogers like 15 times. Also apparently 1718 and 1720 are the same year. Amazing.

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