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.
If you need some more island Rhys Darby in your life, there’s a great TBS show called Wrecked where he’s a plane crash survivor in modern times.
It’s not streaming anymore, but my buddy Stede said anything can be found on the high seas.
It’s a highly underrated show.
Not to mention it features Whitest Kids U’ Know’s very own Zach “gallon of PCP” Cregger.