Our Flag Means Death was cancelled. Its fans are fighting back: ‘Unhinged – in a good way’ - eviltoast
A campaign to save the Taika Waititi show has bought billboards, hired planes and raised tens of thousands of dollars. It’s the latest flex from TV fandoms – but it doesn’t always work

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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  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    10 months ago

    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·
      10 months ago

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