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

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

they're all songs i like/appreciate! but it's very distracting when you have them all together in a row

i did lol at walter singing "send in the clowns" though

lol yeah walter’s stuff has been fun! also some of missy’s stuff too when she was at home or in the car

"climbing up the walls" was the best drop, many of the others ranged from "too obvious" to "this is actively detracting from the emotional beats in the scene"

spoilery thoughts: i don't know how to feel about the reveal that natalie was the leader out in the woods. it doesn't jibe with the way they interact with her in the present (well, except for misty), nor does it jibe with their fear of lottie in the past and present.

I'm waiting for some sort of payoff for all of the coach's weird flashback/hallucinations. I'm thinking there won't be one.

he definitely started the fire

well yeah, that's obvious. just don't think we need all that back-story for that.

the anti-Billy Joel as it were

for sure

I was wondering what his dreams about a world where he’d not traveled with the team, embraced his identity, etc. were going and I wasn’t expecting it to be “I’m normal and a decent person and these girls are crazy as fuck, hell with this” but I get it

his Melrose Place dream sequences did not endear me to him

idk I knew enough closeted teens in the mid 90s who put up with a lot of shit, even if they didn’t 100% sell it for that adult guy it felt aspirational and better than teenage cannibal girls

no way cannibal girls rule

i guess i’m cynical or dead inside? like of course i’ve known closeted teens too but his whole rugby-shirted game night knotted sweater ish just made me roll my eyes x 1000

honestly, I like coach Ben ... real talk, as an adult, would you really be cool with being stuck in the wilderness for over a year with ten teenagers turning to cannibalism? ...

now that I think about it, he dresses like a younger version of one of my favorite high school teachers who ended up quitting after being outed

I just think if I was an adult, and a COACH, I might've stepped up a little bit more into a leadership role, even if they took my leg.

i don't think Natalie is the antler queen tbh

same

i think it follows the template of Lord of Flies where she is the leader for a while, and tries to do things the good way, but then shit doesn't work out, and either Lottie resumes power or someone else does. It is in line with how she is as an adult: a loner and distrustful of groups. If I had to pick someone else other than Lottie who "assumes the mantle" I would go with Tai, who we see in Season 1 getting elected to public office. But it could just revert back to Lottie.

‘Yellowjackets’ Plans Bonus Episode as Season Two Chaser. No word on when it'll air, though, just "before season three."

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/yellowjackets-bonus-episode-1234746724/

I just binged both seasons over the course of a few days. It’s been a while since a show really sucked me in so compulsively. Yesterday morning I was watching the s1 finale and when I looked up again I was on to s2 e5.

Second season was, I guess, “pleasantly uneven.” I liked all the plot lines just fine but there was a dissonance between how funny/hijinks the modern day narrative is vs the harrowing flashbacks. When Lotte talks to the women about the darkness has followed them, I’m with the rest of the women in the room thinking “nah, it hasn’t.”

Glaring things that bugged me - what happened to the mobsters Jeff was dealing with? Was that seriously em entire plot line that occurred offscreen with no fallout? And what about Tai’s political career? I guess we are in that period between election and taking office but there is a deafening lack of interest in her whereabouts. Even at the end of the season there seems to be no acknowledgement from anyone that this public figure was just found in a woods with a woman who died of a drug overdose, another woman being checked into an institution, and whatever story that cop might have told.

I forgive the show for its laziness if only because it remains utterly watchable. I’ll certainly forget half the plot points by the time s3 rolls around.

The $50k blackmail money paid off the mobsters

There are holes and missteps and some bad dialogue but I signed up for a free paramount+showtime trial on prime just to binge this whole show and it didn’t disappoint.

- The first season was much slower than I expected.
- I LOVE all the 90s music but I graduated at the end of ‘97 so no surprise.
- I appreciate the hijinks aspect of the current timeline to balance out the grim and gore.
- This show is way more gory than I expected.
- it’s def like an adult riverdale or pretty little liars but better-looking and funnier.

yeah def some riverdale vibes
i think that’s why i don’t really worry about the plot holes? the ott-ness makes it feel like i’m reading a pulpy novel, i’m good with it

what happened to the person missy had locked in the basement? I'm in season 2 episode 5. maybe that was resolved last season and I completely forgot about it

missy let her go but dosed her cigarette w a heavy sedative (?) or poison (?) so she crashed her car & died

Fentanyl overdose

The $50k blackmail money paid off the mobsters

I got that, I just thought it was weird that the motivation for the blackmail, and the resolution of that plot, happened entirely offscreen aside from Jeff walking through a hotel lobby with some woman, who by the way didn't even look remotely threatening.

FYI: Adult yellowjackets vs Teen yellowjackets on Celeb Family Feud is up on Hulu.

I have to say teen Juliette Lewis actress has completely perfected her Juliette Lewis voice this season

Frodo's flimsy last minute police corruption thing was a bridge too far

it was dumb but i was willing to accept literally anything to sweep that plot under the rug forever

yeah same, that was an annoying storyline