Insert Jackie Chan Mind Blown meme here. Where to begin with this absolute complete disaster and 100% the worst TV episode in the history of TV.
The tension is non existent. The writing is so terrible it cringes you to your core, but even if it were good, the scenes jump faster than the this show will crater. You cannot fathom how jumpy this episode is until you experience it first hand. Scenes with any tension, even the slightest, are cut randomly to launch you to another random plot like that makes zero sense. The show is a scatter fest of hilariously dumb, random scenes that shouldn't be happening, and could be replaced with literally any other idea on planet earth. Watching the actors force there way through the words is harder than watching the cannibalism. It's that bad. No, it's so, so much worse than anything you've even thought of.
Yes. I am sure everyone is okay with keeping Jackie's body out for Shauna to talk to? I guess the girls voted and coach had no issues with corpse chats. Every element of that even happening was so dumb. The boyfriend drama and cheating dialogue to the frozen corpse. Is this real life? This is your season opener? The only way that train wreck could possibly not run off a cliff, but rather fall off into a black hole, would be if Shauna were to start randomly eating Jackie's body parts. And here we are. In a black hole. This is the worst writing in the history of television. The very fact that the idea of Shauna talking to Jackie's frozen corpse for months was taken so seriously that it actually happened should terrify you for more future terrible ideas in Yellowjackets.
Yes. Let's spread our DNA all over Adam's studio. Let's get into the dumbest, most hilariously stupid fantasy sequence during a scene that should be filled with enormous tension and fear. Everything about this scene was horrid. The tone, timing, acting, and directing of what was supposed to be an intimate scene is the greatest F of all time. This scene literally should win awards for how bad it is. Why is Jeff in this show. Why are we here. There are incredible, mysterious, and unknown science fiction elements going on in Yellowjackets and we are getting repressed marriage house wife fantasies in art studios of victims we murdered? This can't be real.
Yes. Let's just give Travis a boner after he has a panic attack and a vision because, why the hell not at this point. Like... How was any of this allowed to be put into the script? How can you literally read this scene off and say, "Yup." This is the most random and obvious way to throw in a love triangle for more pointless drama it looks like... but to do it with a post anxiety attack dream vision boner? LOL... Is this real life?
Yes. Let's untie a kidnapped victim (Natalie) and give them a metal fork. Yes. Let's lean into them and trust that they will be nice. Yes. Yes. Yellowjacket writing team. Yes. Yes.
Adult Natalie - Episode literally could have began with Lottie entering the hostage room. No need for the worst kidnapping escape in the history of thought. Everything with Natalie this episode was a waste.
Adult Misty - Spends the entire episode whining and crying. That's been established. Imagine getting rid of all her cringe scenes, particularly with a random hotel clerk, and have the episode begin with her discovering Natalie has been kidnapped. Plot stuff. Plot advances. Brain think thoughts. Everything with Misty this episode was a waste.
Adult Shauna - A cheating, nonempathetic, bad mother, omega Karen, and her loser husband are going to be the focal point of the adult drama for the season. Fantastic. Adam's story line was the biggest weight of boredom in Season 1, so we are doubling down. No, great idea. I literally have no care whatsoever for what is actually going on to the kids in the woods. Give me soap box Karen please over the mystery, sci-fi, and horror. What even is this show.
Adult Tai - Yes. Having an emotional scene with the new dog Steve and promising not to hurt it definitely is where this character needs to be focused. Tai apparently is having more empathy for the new puppy than the complete horrifying disaster she has just put her wife through. We are not at all worried about never seeing our son again. But... "Steveeeee. It was a mistake!! I will never hurt you Steveeeee!" LOOOOOL.
2 gay teenagers expressing love, concerns, fear, and support for 2 minutes of film is the only star the episode gets, because that is literally the only scene that worked and contextually made any sense.
In a single episode, Yellowjackets has died. WOW.
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