Subscribers and creatives alike have been left devastated by the ongoing content purge that’s currently blighting Disney Plus and Hulu, and it’s beginning to look increasingly like nothing is safe at all.
If even the mighty Marvel branding wasn’t enough to save Runaways from being exiled from the Mouse House’s on-demand library, then what hope to lesser-known properties have? Willow showrunner Jon Kasdan is putting on a surprisingly brave and optimistic face, though, whereas the writers behind The Princess are concerned nobody will ever see their movie ever again, anywhere.
While the high-profile film and television projects have been seizing the majority of headlines as you’d expect, it’s been noticed that Disney Plus has quietly removed a series that’s so ironic in its nature that it would be funny if it weren’t so sad, depressing, and disheartening.
Prop Culture is an inoffensive docuseries that tells the stories behind some of the most iconic props used in Disney productions past, present, and potentially even future, with the higher-ups failing to see the brutal sentiment that comes from axing a show that’s all about the preservation of company-branded media when cranking up the heat on anything existing on the platform that hasn’t justified its own existence.
It’s not a comic book adaptation, an action-packed adventure, or a buzzy fantasy sequel, but Prop Culture vanishing arguably sums up the thoughtless process better than almost anything else, even if it’s clear that nobody really bothered to watch it.