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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 breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee

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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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[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (6 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

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago (1 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.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

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

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In typical Internet behaviour, I tried to think of a rebuttal however immediately thought of what happened with Red Dwarf...

Black Adder had the right formula: different time periods in each series.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

I can't even watch the renewed Red Dwarf. Should've ended way before Series 8.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I loved the show and was gutted to see it end. And then I remembered that season two ended with a happily ever after (to the historically possible extent) and I can re-watch it in a couple of years.

[–] BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I agree for the most part, but I am always scared of shows ending up like My Name is Earl

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

On the other hand most of my favorite shows of all time had 22-24 episode seasons.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I totally agree that less is more but OFMD had some unresolved plots and stories. I’m pretty sure it was planned from the get-go for 3 seasons so losing the last one is a big deal.