The Accent is on Arrr!

I don't know how it happened but I am watching the Survivor clone Pirate Master on CBS. In it sixteen contestants dress up as, and pretend to be, pirates. They sail a full-masted 179-foot pirate ship around an island in the Caribbean and go in search of the treasure of some supposed famous pirate, which until this show no one had ever heard of. The show adds a fantasy game role-playing aspect to the basic Survivor premise of "Outwit. Outplay. Outlast."

In the third episode which was telecast this week a new captain was chosen. The captain gets certain privileges, better living conditions, more money (though the new captain, Azmyth, split the loot evenly between all pirates on his team), and he gets to pick the three people who will go to "Pirates Court" and one of which will be "set adrift," the Pirate Master version of "voted off the island." The other thing the captain gets is a coat and hat to wear.

When Azmyth, a skinny white guy from Washington state with swirls carved into his beard and blondish dreadlocks adorning his head became captain, he suddenly picked up an English accent. A big deal was made of it and when he got to "Pirate Court" and spoke, the host, Australian actor Cameron Daddo, a Jeff Probst wannabe if ever one existed, acted shocked. "Have you got an accent?" he asked, astounded at such a thing. The guy is in a pirate outfit, on a pirate ship off the coast of a Caribbean island with a bunch of other people pretending to be pirates, and Daddo has a problem with the guy "pretending" he has an accent? What a crock of shit.

This show is such a pile of phony bullshit, I wish I wasn't hooked on it.