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Yellowjackets

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
Yellowjackets - Watched the first four episodes, enjoying it so far. The easy comparison to make is Lost but with a high school girls soccer team crashing in the Canadian wilderness. And possibly without the supernatural stuff (though maybe not!) So you get to see them both as teenagers struggling to survive and as adults twenty five years later, played by different actors obviously. I will say that, so far, I'm more into the flashback stuff than the present day stuff and sometimes feel a bit of a disconnect (one of them has an evil child, or something?) Also they have to talk in a way where they don't give away too much about what happened in the woods. But the present day stuff has Christina Ricci being a lot of fun as the best character. Then again the younger actress playing the same character is also good! Anyway, I like it, seems like the kind of thing we'd all have watched and posted THEORIES about ten years ago.
 
I don't even notice stuff like gore anymore, I seem to have lost all sensitivity to it.

Six episodes in and the present day stuff is working better for me now. Even warmed to Jeff after the scene with Jackie's parents.



Misty fun.
 
I have given this its own thread, after successfully passing the "sampled tv show" audition.

I have watched the whole first season now, it's very good! My slight misgivings about the present day scenes were gone by the end. The supernatural stuff is still ambiguous enough to all be imagined, and it's more about the girls starting to believe in weird shit than if the weird shit is actually real.

MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH SPOILERS

I was sad to see Laura Lee die, she was sweet. Jackie dying, of course, made sense: she was the one least suited to life in the wilderness and her death signals the final breaking down of the old high school hierarchy. But the actress was so good playing the character that I'll definitely miss her! Felt bad for the bear Lottie murdered too.

"What!? There's no bookclub!?" was the funniest line of the season, I'm Team JeffShauna now.

Here is the trailer for the first season in a final vain effort to get the non-believers to watch.

 
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It's pretty good, Lord of the Flies and Lost are both the obvious inspirations; will be interesting to see where they spin it off too. It's well-acted and the mystery is compelling enough that I'll stick with it (up to episode 4 so far) since it definitely makes you want to know what's up next and there doesn't seem to be any Kate analog to eat up pointless filler episodes. I much prefer shows that have a central hook cutting down to 10 episodes to avoid the strung-out nature that we got with shows like Lost.

I had some trouble matching the older actresses with their younger counterparts at first (I'm slow) but I think I've got it now.

It is pretty gratuitous with the gore, it doesn't bother me although it did seem laid on a bit thick! I guess the show creator is known for doing horror so yeah.

Christina Ricci still got it.
 
Misty rules, both as Christina Ricci and Sammi Hanratty.

There's definitely no "filler" stuff. In the opening episodes I was a bit bored in the scenes of Taissa and her weird son, but there is a point to them.
 
Casting spoilers for season two

Lauren Ambrose will play adult Van
Simone Kessell will play adult Lottie
And Frodo Baggins himself Elijah Wood will play a character named "Citizen Detective Walter" (a friend for Misty!)
 
I was curious about this series. Haven't seen it yet, but i think my wife may have sneak watched a couple episodes.

Will look for it later this evening.
 
Season 2 episode 1

Good season opener, but a lot of catching up with where the characters are and scene-setting. Did not expect the cannibalism to start with Shauna eating Jackie's ear but it makes a sick kind of sense.

Jeff continues to be a highlight. Excellent use of Papa Roach.

Some girls who never spoke in season one are speaking now. They'll probably be eaten soon.
 
I think we might have said "for fuck's sake" in the nineties but sometimes I think like 2008 was yesterday so I don't know.

Yeah they probably would be more homophobic but it's kind of nice that they aren't and Taissa and Van don't have to worry about that while they're starving to death.
 
2.3 - Kind of all over the place. I'm sure the flashbacks/forward matched up with the present day/past better in season one. I kind of wish they'd just made Adult Lottie all the way evil instead of this ambiguous "bleeding bee visons" version. Shauna scaring the car jacker was good, Sophie Thatcher is really good as young Natalie; I still enjoy the show overall it just feels a bit sloppier.
 
2.5 - Definitely the best of the season so far. Misty has felt softer in the flashbacks because of her new friendship, but this one firmly reminds us that she's still pretty crazy and oops her craziness just got that new friend killed! I'm sure we'll see Elijah Wood return too.

Callie teaming up with Jeff and Shauna is much more entertaining that her rebelling against them. The spooge gambit didn't work!
 
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