i hope this hasn't been done yet ...
Something Yellowjackets is doing a really good job with that I haven’t seen many people chatting about is showcasing how even “good cops” are actually still terrible.
That guy- “jay” or whatever his name is (starts with an S but I don’t give a shit)- is by every definition of the word- GROOMING Callie. He is preying on her in a way that, yeah, maybe it isn’t a sex thing, but it is still very much something that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. He is taking advantage of her while she is in a very vulnerable position for information on her mother.
He bought her alcohol. He took her out on dates. He pulled intimate information out of her and he knew he KNOWS that she is underage. He KNOWS that she is in high school. He KNOWS what he is doing is wrong but he does not care.
All of the information he has collected on Shauna has been collected illegally and unethically and he’s done it with a shit eating grin on his face the whole time. It’s easy to see that he’s a bad cop- a shitty guy with no morals who will do anything to lock Shauna up.
Yeah, he’s the bad cop. He’s the corrupt cop. He’s the “bad apple”.
But Kevyn Tan? He’s the good cop! He’s a nice guy! He’s sweet and has big sad eyes and he just wants to protect the town and have a steady paycheck and uwu he’s just a your friendly neighborhood policeman.
Your friendly neighborhood policeman who is allowing this other guy to do all these terrible things and get away with it. He is 100% GIVING SARACUSO PERMISSION to do all of these unethical and illegal things because that is what “good cops” do.
They just allow the bad guys to do bad things so really, they’re not very good at all, are they?
Anyways that got long hope that makes sense but it probably doesn’t :)
The Tour de Nesle affair: a cautionary tale about the dangers of re-gifting.
nat is so iconic “actually i’m worse” she reached peak self loathing and coach-alienation in just three words. thank god i couldn’t watch this show as a teen i would’ve projected onto her so hard my organs left my body
I’ll never be over how Shauna sees the group’s faces in her dream after they’ve eaten the baby. It’s such a fascinating insight into Shauna’s mind to me. Lottie looks practically childlike. She makes an attempt to wipe her face but not in an ashamed way, it’s simply a casual motion to wipe her lip, as if the actual amount of blood on her face doesn’t exist to her and it’s simply a crumb that rests on her lip. It seems like she has orchestrated this, but she’s unaware what they are really doing, as if she doesn’t understand this is Shauna’s BABY.
Akilah looks terrified, she’s sorry she’s doing this but she can’t help it. She’s almost about to throw up thinking about what she’s doing but she’s just so hungry she can’t help but eat what’s been given.
Van nearly snarls like a fucking wolf which I find FASCINATING. Van has never been aggressive toward Shauna, but she IS a strong ally to Lottie, and that seems to be enough of a threat to Shauna.
Taissa is very clearly being seen as her sleepwalking self, with the quick movements, sloppy chewing, and animalistic stare. Natalie is desperately ashamed of what she has done, trying to wipe away the evidence and so sorry that she has betrayed Shauna in such a way but she just couldn’t stop herself. It’s as if Shauna knows neither of them could be consciously capable of this, even in her dream. These two have been her strongest allies and Shauna doesn’t believe they would willingly hurt her in this way, but it could still happen somehow. Natalie also has the least amount of blood on her, like she was the last to dig in, or ate the least and most carefully. Being as respectful as possible until the last second.
And Misty. Misty looks at Shauna as if she wants to worship her. She looks for a moment like “ah shit, listen Shauna I know this looks bad” but the most prominent message from her expression is as if she is grateful to Shauna for feeding them again. Shauna has been the one keeping them fed for so long. First with Jackie, and now her baby.
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kind of obsessed with the fly by character descriptions they give in this version of the pilot’s script
Honestly my one of my favorite things about Yellowjackets is that it’s like the “high-school-stereotype turns out to be more than that” trope, but turned up to such a grotesque and horrifying degree. Like-
“Turns out the popular girl has her own weaknesses/insecurities!” Yeah and she literally freaking dies for them.
“Wow! The rebellious punk girl we were all afraid of is actually really nice!” So let’s turn her into this borderline divine figure, entrust her with our lives and follow her deep into the wilderness as she’s the last one to hold onto a sliver of humanity and not turn into some primal, depraved animal.
“Oh! So the weird childish kid is actually capable of things!” Mm hmm, capable of MURDER. Capable of holding the cards of life and death itself in her little hands and becoming so needed yet so feared.
“That strange quiet kid finally finds her voice!” AND STARTS A CULT.
I could keep going but just- Y’all that retro 90’s energy of exploring the high school trope coupled with the utter gruesome obscenity that is their situation… It so does it for me. Everyone’s become so suffocated in their little boxes that the only way to break out is in a dramatic frenzy where they start killing each other. Glorious.
Look at her eyes. Look at her eyes! For God’s sake, what happened to her eyes?
Evil Dead Rise (2023) dir. Lee Cronin