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.
Isn’t the real answer piracy?
Like… Did you learn nothing from the show?
How does piracy get the show picked back up for a third season?
When executives have cannons aimed at their homes and are threatened with walking the plank, things get done quickly.