Mary Read: Last News

Hunter Ingram For once, Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard aren’t the most dysfunctional pirate couple on the deck of Max’s comedy series “Our Flag Means Death.” In Season 2’s fourth episode, titled “Fun and Games,” that distinction belongs to legendary pirates Anne Bonny (Minnie Driver) and Mary Read (Rachel House). As the series has done with the shared history between the real-life Stede and Blackbeard, “Our Flag Means Death” interprets the fearsome women pirates as a couple. But they’ve been at the whole dating thing a lot longer than the boys.

Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Mermen,” the Season 2 finale of “Our Flag Means Death,” now streaming on Max. What is on the other side of the Golden Age of piracy? Every character on Max’s “Our Flag Means Death” faces that question after the Season 2 finale saw the destruction of their safe haven known as the Republic of Pirates, the death of an unexpectedly beloved member of the crew and the Revenge sailing off into the sunset –– without Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) or Blackbeard aka “Ed” (Taika Waititi) on board. That’s right, after two seasons of swashbuckling and swooning, the two pirates reunited after Ed found the message-in-a-bottle love letter Stede cast out to sea in the season premiere.

The oldest living person in Stirling - Mary Read - has died aged 107.