What do you get when you cast John Malkovich with British actors? A disaster.
Malkovich is meh to begin with, but his attempt on British accent is just terrible. He sounds more like a frenchman trying to speak english, very annoying. His perfomance is not convincing at all, a bald headed pirate with a white goatee doesn't represent "Blackbeard". Awkward at best, I don't know why the show decided to go that way. Can't expect much from an NBC production.
The only champion of this series is Richard Coyle, he portrays his character convincingly and his dialogues cover most of the script. The other characters are boring.
It was painful to watch. If you want a true pirate series with a top notch performance and story, try "Black Sails".
Malkovich is meh to begin with, but his attempt on British accent is just terrible. He sounds more like a frenchman trying to speak english, very annoying. His perfomance is not convincing at all, a bald headed pirate with a white goatee doesn't represent "Blackbeard". Awkward at best, I don't know why the show decided to go that way. Can't expect much from an NBC production.
The only champion of this series is Richard Coyle, he portrays his character convincingly and his dialogues cover most of the script. The other characters are boring.
It was painful to watch. If you want a true pirate series with a top notch performance and story, try "Black Sails".