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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] 31 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Fucking hell, how can people not realise that less is more?

Look at all the classic sitcoms. Did they get strung out for 20 series? No, they stopped

Look at the reviews on IMDb for British shows, almost every one is "Oh my gaaad the Briddish make the best shows, but I wish they were laaaanger"

They're better because they're shorter, you daft cunt

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (4 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.

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