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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  • ryan213@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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          10 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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      10 months ago

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