Both are loving send-ups of well-established genres.īoth feature a group of misfits of that genre uneasily tossed together and learning to work and live side-by-side. Both this show and FX’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In the Shadows are produced by Waititi (and in the case of Shadows, co-created by him).

“I reckon what makes Ed happy is you,” says Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) in an unexpectedly romantic, sunset-lit moment of the HBO Max pirate rom-com Our Flag Means Death.