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Anne With an E fans wage digital war with Netflix over cancellation

posted 5 years ago by Satan2016 (25525)
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If you do a google search over the last month, you get dozens of these articles.
I checked the reviews when it started, but it didn't seem interesting.
I don't buy the argument there is a huge fanbase. Over 3 seasons and 27 eps there are 26K Imdb votes. What We Do in the Shadows 22K after 14 eps. Rick and Morty has 333K!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/anne-with-an-e-show-cancelled-angry-fans

The shows coproducers, Netflix and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), announced in November that the drama would be cancelled after three seasons.

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But CBC’s statement that the final season would bring a “satisfying conclusion to Anne’s journey” did little to placate fans.

“People were outraged. The cast and the crew were also blindsided by it,” said Lisa E, a Toronto-based organizer with AWAE Fan Projects. “Everyone loves the show obviously. They just couldn’t believe it.”

The day after the announcement, the group took to Twitter with rallying cry: renew the show.

The group, whose organizers live in Canada, the United States and throughout Europe, quickly raised thousands of dollars to amplify their message, placing five billboards in downtown Toronto and New York’s Times Square.

Nearly 300,000 fans signed a petition on Change.org demanding the series be renewed for another season.

But the group’s most successful – and most controversial – campaign has been a digital, guerilla-style battle against the two companies.

Members of the group have swarmed the comments section of CBC news stories to demand the show’s revival, and posted more than 13m tweets directed at CBC and Netflix. This week, the group arrived en masse in the comments section of Netflix’s quarterly earnings’ call on Youtube.

Matters came to a head on Sunday, when the CBC said it would begin block any “Anne-related comments” from news stories.

[–] exatera (3953) 5 years ago

The show was interesting in the first season, but after that it had the same kind of problem as The Handmaid's Tale did after season one (IMO) - I never read Anne of Green Gables, but it became painfully obvious that the show went off-book. With every single episode in season 2 it became more and more clear that when the writers are left to their own devices they are incapable of continuing the story on the level and in the style required. The show became way too PC for its time, and there started appearing downright pointless episodes that did nothing to further the plot.

In short, what made the series initially interesting was that it immersed me into that world. The moment that world became incongruous, it stopped being interesting.

I didn't make it to season 3. I am surprised this show has such diehard fans.

[–] KBiker (980) 2 years ago

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