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Our Flag Means Death was cancelled. Its fans are fighting back: ‘Unhinged – in a good way’ (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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After two seasons, the queer pirate romcom starring Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby was cancelled by HBO’s Max earlier this month – and its fans quickly mobilised. They raised more than US$21,000 for the campaign, which was used to purchase a billboard in Times Square and have a plane fly over Hollywood with a banner reading “Save Our Flag Means Death”. They also flooded Max’s social media, phone lines and customer feedback inboxes en masse, and launched a petition that has just under 80,000 signatures at time of writing.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Quality over quantity. However, I think 2 seasons is too short. I'm in the 4-5 seasons camp, especially if there are less than 10 eps each season.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think two seasons is plenty if they only have two seasons' worth of story to tell. I think trying to aim for arbitrary episode/season counts harms storytelling in general.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The show’s creator had planned a 3 season arc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Well then three seasons would have been appropriate!

I was just speaking in a broad sense; it'd be great - especially with streaming not needing to fit things into any kind of schedule - if we could have more shows that just take the amount of time they need to tell their story, and then finish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Three seasons is plenty for most shows. It seems like most fall off right around season 4