showtime’s yellowjackets (2021 ‘til it inevitably falls apart)

Hello adult Van - quick sidebar what the fuck is up with your cheesewagon video store name.
While You Were Streaming?
dude.
srsly.

Haha, works for me.

Adult Van + the 4 Non Blondes song = otm

flashback use of "bestie" = anachronism

I occasionally wonder if the anachronisms are clues that those things didn't actually happen

Also, the fact that Van runs a video store in what contextually (i.e. hitch-hiked all across Pennsylvania) could be Pittsburg -- I doubt it's a Videodrome reference, but my brain went there

also impressed & shocked that Jeff is able to call Shauna out on her boundaryless parenting & terrible decision making when shauna reveals “oh by the way i thought it was a good idea to tell our daughter everything”

love that jeff is like “what is wrong with you!?!? you MADE our DAUGHTER an ACCOMPLICE”

xp Haven’t seen the latest one but this doesn’t feel like a show that would leave those sorts of “clues”

Any period thing will have the odd anachronism but it’s honestly damning with this kind of stuff that’s so easy to check, like nobody piping up to ask “would anyone really say garbage fire 30 years ago” just comes across as insultingly lazy

(That’s a fake example but not really more egregious than the stuff that’s come up)

Or no, I think I am up to date — the last one I saw ended with the adult van reveal. I’m pirating so never sure what’s what

the hapless hijinks of Shauna + Jeff are really growing on me

yeah same; slowly gaining more of shaunas backstory makes their relationship more interesting to me, and kinda changes their dynamic

i guess the next big question is: the babby, how is it formed?

option 1 does not survive and is buried/cremated

option 2 they end up eating it, or at least part of it

option 3 Canadian equivalent of dingo gets it

A wendigo ate my baby

i am sure it will be suitably unhinged, whatever the case maybe

scene between lottie and nat this week is the show at its best

This season is dumb and bad but there are like three or four excellent moments per episode that keep me addicted

I think I would watch an entire movie just about Christina Ricci tbh

the actress (Samantha Hanratty) doing teen Misty really has the vibe locked in and it’s funny watching Ricci doing the adult version pretending she’s not the weirdo half the time

doing a terrible job pretending, obviously

And we found out why they introduced a new character in the early timeline.

lol way to ruin a good episode with that final shot

i do not understand how the final shot ruined the episode pls explain

anyway super traumatic episode

they could still eat it?

i may like this show even more now that it’s very uneven and is seesawing between being an bad melodrama and being completely fucked and gross

irl lol, sarahell

at this point i'm like, making the mental list of characters that we haven't seen in the present day and imagining why

I think that breaking the 4th wall and staring at the camera feels manipulative and cheap in this instance, scene was powerful enough w/o it and that final shot just irredeemably cheapened it for me

i think for me, it was like, we know the baby didn't make it ... it's really just about when it died and how and did it become food. ... i guess i found that whole piece of the story (the pregnancy) not all that inherently interesting, because there is a whole subgenre of horror about it (or multiple subgenres, depending on who is categorizing) ... like, i think at one point i even thought they might do a "dingo's got the baby" callback re a wolf ...

I don't know much about this show, or at least I've stayed spoiler free beyond the broad plane crash/Lord of the Flies setup, but I couldn't make it through the first episode. Just didn't like the writing or acting, really. It just felt so ... mildly edgy teen show? Is this one of those series that gets better, or is it one of those guilty pleasure shows?

I don't know if it's a good show or a bad show but I will never stop watching it

Interesting.

I'd honestly listen to arguments from both sides but man do they go there and then some

it is fun, don’t think about it too hard

it feels like a slightly more uh grounded (?) version of Riverdale ie ott emotional melodrama - i love it

OK, that explains it a bit. I guess I was expecting something more serious and not something like Riverdale. I'm not a fan of soapy/campy/trashy melodrama, teen or otherwise, no matter the degree of paranormal or sci-fi or mystery or survival or whatever (way back when I think I saw a little over a season of "Lost" before I moved on), so maybe it's just not for me. Like I said, I thought the half an episode I watched with my wife was pretty bad, and while she finished the episode, she told me she is in no real hurry to continue. So I guess we need to find a new show!

big lol at Jeff listening to NWA outside the police station, he's so ridiculous. every one of his line readings kills me

I totally cracked up at that

yeah the needle drops for jeff are a+ hilarity

next up on Jeff's playlist: Rage Against the Machine "Killing in the Name Of"

dying for them to bust out some Candlebox for Jeff

lol!!! they could probably have a whole social media campaign around the soundtrack of Jeff

"last resort" was hilarious and accidentally appropriate.

cut my [dead, accidentally cooked friend] into pieces, this is my last resort

just watched the finale and the ‘90s needle drops have got to stop, pls make it stop, or give us an all Chili Peppers episode next season

also lol @ them killing off the least annoying adult character, next season is gonna be even worse than this season? lmao

i honestly don't understand why anyone would choose that mediocre Live song to nostalgically dance to ... though the use of that Cranberries song, honestly, in context, that was possibly the most affection I've ever felt for that song. ... and more soundtrack opinions ... while thematically appropriate, Killing Moon was an 80s song that ... was used twice in this episode and idgi, even though I have much love for it.

As far as endings go ... Natalie's death I realized that I much prefer the teen version of her, like she is seriously the best. ... so although sad, I felt a bit relieved. I would have been more devastated if Misty had been killed ... adult Misty is seriously the best ... teen Misty is also a joy

Agree with all of this ^^^

i like this show so much i followed it on Insta lol ... I also have the desire to assign astrological signs to the characters ...

doit doit

xpost lol I’m not following the show but I got accidentally spoiled about who was killed after Christina Ricci and Melanie Lynskey both posted long tributes to them on IG.

i seriously get nightmares after watching ... it's very cathartic

a lot of this season didn’t make sense to me esp the walter of it all but I still for some weird reason find myself completely caught up in it and not bothered?

i like how van seemed to suddenly get very onboard w lottie again once they were like, IN it … nooo don’t commit her we made her etc i get it but i dunno how letting her run around w a bowie knife is ~better~ for any of you but you do you van

bummed about the loss of (spoiler) but interested in where it goes now

real talk: coach is my least favorite character is it bad that i wanted him to jump off the cliff

also the way they crowd the frying pan with meat is criminal, like jesus you’ll fuckin steam the meat it’ll taste even worse lol

agree that coach is the worst - I really wanted them to eat him already lol

this show is bad imo, but fun to watch. love young nat and misty, and all the silly jeff+shauna+daughter hijinks, christina ricci is also hilariously goofy in this

and yeah the soundtrack was particularly obnoxious in that finale... cranberries + radiohead + buffy sainte marie + two versions of Killing Moon, jesus

idk i kinda enjoyed the needledrops