Netflix has declared that the popular show, The Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj will no longer be televising.
Minaj revealed the news on Twitter.
What a run. @patriotact has come to an end. I got to work with the best writers, producers, researchers, and animators in the game. My 2 babies were born and grew up with the show. TY to @Netflix and everyone who watched. Now it’s time to return these screens to Best Buy ? pic.twitter.com/4s4TrsKWe6
— Hasan Minhaj (@hasanminhaj) August 18, 2024
“Patriot Act” had aired on the streaming platform in October 2018 and as of now it has released 39 episodes. The show’s final episode was released in June 2024.
In 2019, the show won a Peabody Award and an Emmy for outstanding motion design. Minaj’s tweet, announcing the cancellation of the show, however, doesn’t seem like a ‘beautiful’ end to a series: it seems abrupt, halted, and snipped in the middle.
When Minaj’s show first aired in 2018, it brought to the streaming stage what had never been done before: A Muslim Indian-American comic, born to immigrant parents, calling out real-time problems.
The topics he spoke about were appropriate: Elections, climate change, immigration. All of them disguised in the garb of almost being comedy. Minaj’s shows were a shot on call-out practice in the best way: he challenged federations and large organizations by revealing actual facts about them, and stretching the content with humor, so the audience listened.
Minaj’s narrative of being a brown Muslim kid in America also stood out. When he spoke about his immigrant experiences, being a brown kid, his love for sneakers. He could make audiences feel awkward whether he was talking about clothing labels like Supreme, or the assassination of a journalist in Saudi Arabia.
After Minaj’s tweet, Netizens on Twitter weren’t very pleased (with Netflix). They saw the show being canceled as what it was – a person of brilliance’s view being halted.
