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NFT: Yellowjackets on Showtime

Lafferty, Daniel : 3/27/2023 4:06 pm

Anyone watching? S2 premiere was on Friday.
Season 1 was really solid stuff. Randomly got into the show last year and it progressed into a great season of TV.
The show is basically Lord of Flies meets Alive meets LOST ... combined with Ladybugs?! Girls HS soccer team plane crashes in wilderness. Past and present day timelines, some spooky supernatural weird shit happening also.

Anyway -- S2E1 was a good start despite had some issues with the present day timeline. Some silly and convenient aspects to move things along, which is not uncommon on Showtime series' I have noticed. Entertaining nonetheless.

I really enjoyed S1

allstarjim : 3/27/2023 4:08 pm : link

and this season looks to be completely nuts!

Spoiler alert below:

Holy crap with Lottie leading those people out into the woods and were burying that dude alive! This chick is crazy.

I thought it was a hunger game spinoff

George from PA : 3/27/2023 4:09 pm : link

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Unclear if he was being buried alive but it sure seemed like it!

Lafferty, Daniel : 3/27/2023 4:09 pm : link

LOL

Spoiler below:

Lafferty, Daniel : 3/27/2023 4:12 pm : link

Do not have sex in the art studio of the person you murdered. I know the plan was to get in and get out - but they took that quite literally!

RE: Spoiler below:

allstarjim : 3/27/2023 4:18 pm : link

In comment 16076322 Lafferty, Daniel said:

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Do not have sex in the art studio of the person you murdered. I know the plan was to get in and get out - but they took that quite literally!

Haha, I mentioned this to my wife. Yeah, sure, why not put your DNA all over his art studio. FFS. If it were me, I wouldn't even be going in there without gloves and plastic over my head and feet. Think Mark Wahlberg killing Matt Damon in The Departed, except with a plastic hair "net" over my head, lunch lady style.

Loved season 1, highly skeptical of the show direction going forward

Diversify yo bonds : 3/27/2023 4:23 pm : link

Season one really grabbed me unexpectedly. The casting for young and old was tremendous and the actors did a great job.

The announcement that they are going to stretch this into 5 seasons seems like a mistake. We will be subjected to all manner of filler, red herrings, and characterizations changing.

Now we have previously unseen survivors showing up lol. Tailies / red shirts to be cannibalized.

I may put this series on the shelf for a while and binge later.

We watched S2E1 lastnight

UConn4523 : 3/27/2023 4:32 pm : link

and I don’t know, I’m kinda bored of it. It really needs to pick up but I really don’t know where or how. The adults aren’t as compelling as the kids, but the problem is we know most of who made it so the intrigue in the flashbacks is gone.

I’ll keep watching for now but I can see us dropping it at some point.

Introducing new survivors just to get eaten, SMH.

Lafferty, Daniel : 3/27/2023 5:07 pm : link

totally agree.

Present day stakes will need to increase bigly to keep viewers captivated. Burying people alive probably a good start for that tho!

I graduated high school in '97

BNY Giants Club : 3/27/2023 11:01 pm : link

So the tunes they play when the girls are kids are nostalgic for me. Was great to hear "Drown" from Smashing Pumpkins and "Cornflake Girl" from Tori Amos this last episode.

RE: Introducing new survivors just to get eaten, SMH.

allstarjim : 3/28/2023 11:54 am : link

In comment 16076404 Lafferty, Daniel said:

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totally agree.

Present day stakes will need to increase bigly to keep viewers captivated. Burying people alive probably a good start for that tho!

I understand this comment because some characters had some speaking roles in the S2 premiere that didn't at all in Season 1. However, in the burial scene in S1, it was clear there were a lot more survivors than the ones they showed on screen:

Crash survivors

UConn4523 : 3/28/2023 12:01 pm : link

are different than total survivors, like Jackie for example.

How's the gore and violence?

santacruzom : 3/29/2023 1:36 am : link

I have a feeling this is the type of show I'm going to need to watch without my wife.

RE: I thought it was a hunger game spinoff

RicFlair : 3/29/2023 6:47 am : link

In comment 16076316 George from PA said:

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It’s not.

Could have been a one season deal

Dave in PA : 3/29/2023 8:35 am : link

Thought it had promise to start, but like most shows it kind of lost its direction. If the goal is multiple additional seasons, I’m out

RE: Could have been a one season deal

KevinBBWC : 3/29/2023 9:29 am : link

In comment 16077538 Dave in PA said:

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Thought it had promise to start, but like most shows it kind of lost its direction. If the goal is multiple additional seasons, I’m out

5 seasons is the goal.

RE: How's the gore and violence?

allstarjim : 3/29/2023 2:24 pm : link

In comment 16077480 santacruzom said:

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I have a feeling this is the type of show I'm going to need to watch without my wife.

There is some violence, but it's not overly gratuitous so far, IMO. My wife enjoys it, but she also loves the horror genre.