Skip Navigation
Movies and TV Shows @lemm.ee breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca

Our Flag Means Death was cancelled. Its fans are fighting back: ‘Unhinged – in a good way’

www.theguardian.com Our Flag Means Death was cancelled. Its fans are fighting back: ‘Unhinged – in a good way’

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

Our Flag Means Death was cancelled. Its fans are fighting back: ‘Unhinged – in a good way’

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.

Archive

21

You're viewing a single thread.

21 comments
You've viewed 21 comments.