This has been a consistently great watch and really looking forward to season 2. If I have one criticism it's that I wish that we'd had a little more of the darker forces / supernatural elements running throughout, as the opening scene of episode one felt quite removed from much of this (albeit terrific) first season.
I feel like I was played with how they managed the guilt and grief of the survivors, especially Shauna, but I can't even be mad at it, it's been a great first season and I look forward to how they'll continue this story.
Poor Jackie. Her death would have been tragic no matter what, but they still managed to twist the knife with that....
Oh man they played us so well with Jackie's death. I just went back and watched the episode 1 opener. In hindsight it clearly wasn't her but that episode was crafted so well it led us to believe that. Bravo.
So it's confirmed that Lottie will be ringleader and that she's still got some cultists 25 years later? Super interesting!
And Taissa is darker than we thought!! (still not as dark as twisty Misty tho ofc)
Bring on season 2!
Hmm, so Lottie is still around...I wonder who else is still alive? I also don't believe Tai isn't 100% aware of what she's doing, seeing how she made a doggy altar. Anyway, great season, I look forward to the next! Also, Jackie should've just said "fuck it" and went inside...it's not like they kicked her out, she was just stubborn in the fact that they didn't like her.
Based on almost everything I've read this is going to be a very unpopular opinion, but Yellowjackets oversold and under delivered. It was built up to be much more stark and heavy than it actually was. Season 1 is not a bad show at all but it is overlong and extra messy as a result. Feels like seven episodes would have been the magic number to tighten it up. But maybe the creators embraced the chaos? In the end, I'm not disappointed after watching Yellowjackets, I'm just nowhere near being as blown away by the season as I had expected to be. So that's why I say the show was oversold, because my hopes were exorbitant and it was just a good Showtime show. Nothing wrong with that.
This definitely feels like a show that will ultimately let me down with a lot of unanswered questions. Hopefully getting an early season 3 renewal helps the creatives plan things out well because there are a ton of plot holes not explained. I also feel like the writing is a little messier than people want to admit yet. But hopefully they'll pull it all together as the show progresses. I read that the showrunners have a 5 season plan and for me that’s too much for shows like this, three seasons would be perfect I think or I would have rather they made it a 13/15 episode series that combines season 1 and 2 instead of stretching it out to multiple series. I think this show would have been so much better as a limited series. It feels way too stretched and filled with cliche after cliche.
The most interesting part of the show is the mystery aspects, which they hook you very well with. The rest is nothing new and somewhat predictable. Lord of the Flies with girls + cannibalism. I disliked the Doomcoming episode’s handling of shrooms and sacrifices. The orgy, chase, and shrooms scene felt too Riverdale for my tastes.
I thought the finale of season 1 was decent but not amazing. The bear dying with just one stab was very unrealistic, the ghostly figure in the cabin came across more corny than anything and the whole reunion felt more like filler. Jackie's death was very well done in terms of tragedy and was dramatic enough to be haunting Shauna as badly as it still does. Although, I wish they had fleshed out the reasons for why the group despised Jackie’s guts besides her being a weakling and sleeping with Travis? She’s never been a mean girl, annoying and pretentious for sure, but not enough to warrant that much heat.
Misty is by far the most interesting character, a complete psychopath. I think she's managed to weaponize the perception of herself as someone who is socially inept and very needy of positive attention - the person she was before the crash - while actually still being that person, but only with her fellow teammates. Juliette Lewis was kind of hard to watch (not in a character way).
I know it's not really a show about survival, but the fact that everyone still looked fresh faced and washed all the time after being there for a month was kinda distracting. I can't get over how nicely Van has healed, or even how the hell she survived that wolf attack. She has no medical care and is not eating adequately to promote healing. Nat somehow doesn't have her roots grown in, even though they showed a scene of her younger with darker hair so she clearly wasn’t meant to be a natural blonde.
Wish I had been watching each episode week to week. There’s more of a chance to think about and reflect about what just happened, as well as build anticipation for the rest of the series.
Enjoyed it but dread that they're going to drag this out for too many seasons.
i already had a feeling that it wasn't jackie who died in that opening scene, but DAMN, did they throw me for a loop with that one. hyped to see how season 2 turns out!
After finally catching up, I’m really surprised at some of the hyperbole around this show. It isn’t terrible but there is a lot of dumb shit
This show takes place in Jersey but none of them have a Jersey accent. That’s just fucking insulting. Allie in episode 10 was the only one with Jersey accent.
This first season kept me on the edge of my seat. Still Jackies demise feels really stupid. Why would they all leave her out there like that. Makes no sense at all. Still I can‘t wait for new episodes to premiere in March of next year.
ok i love this show so much. can't wait for season 2. but i didn't expected this lack of answers in the end. the season 2 will kinda be a second part of the first season, cause they didn't conclude the things they started on this season. but I'm living for it.
Rutgers. Woohoo. Liking the reference.
That was one of the stupidest endings. Makes no sense. How can she freeze to death in matter of hours? Also everyone knows it’s gonna get cold out so why would they leave her out there. If this supposed to be supernatural story, while not dig into that but 10 episodes and nothing. What a fucking waste of 10 hours of my life.
Jackie stayed out there and died but did Nat and Travis and his brother come back to the cabin? Where are they? The plane isn't much of a warmer place to spend the night if they didn't have enough time to come back. And if they did come back later, then didn't they see that Jackie (possible but still)? We know that Natalie and Travis won't die now but I guess that means that Travis's brother did.
Anyway. I guess this means that Lottie also survived (in the current day timeline) and is responsible for Travis's death. I wish they could've hinted at it earlier though I guess it makes sense. I guess that when they came back she wasn't willing to leave it all behind and pretend to have a normal life so the others completely stopped contacting her.
"I sleepwalk and I'm afraid I could hurt you" is not something that can't be worked through. I don't get why now Simone is the maddest when Taisa's abandonment of her family and especially her son was the worst a few episodes earlier. I don't think she's conscious of what she's doing when sleepwalking. I'm not even sure that she was the one who did that altar and decapitated their dog.
8/10
Great
All round but
I was expecting this to
be more shocking and
naughty especially the
way they plugged this
show which pulled me
in.
And to say it's an 18+
I was definitely expecting
Ash vs the Evil Dead,
Game of Thrones
Level of nudity and gore
With lots of wtf moments.
with that being said I see
how they played this season
being a 5 season show,
give us justtttt enough
to keep us hanging around
for the remainder.
I'm enjoying it as I did this season finale but I would
have liked more
"LOST" Supernatural
Type Shenanigans
kicking in, I hope they
play more into that as the
Seasons unfold.
All the group really
Pissed me off this episode
bar 1, Shauna is a
piece of shit in any timeline
and that ending was
Fcuking Appalling,
Disgusting the lot of them,
I was so angry.
How can a bunch of
Rapey Psychopath cult members not see they
are the ones that are wrong
and fcuked in the head,
Like I said Appalling
Outcome.
No Way can you drop a
1000+ pound bear like that.
I hope in the second season
Everything gets dialed up to
11 and goes batshit crazy.
Regardless I'm here for it
Anyway.
(Oh dear Natalie
your in the shit now)
The title of this episode is Latin for “So the glory of the world”
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This whole season was fantastic and I can't wait for the next.