yellowjackets fucks severely because the major plotlines are like: a flock of teenage girls lives out their very own hatchet nightmare scenario, black lesbian politician’s campaign for state senator is stymied by cannibalism accusations, recovering addict teams up with sadistic nurse true crime failgirlie to discover their mysterious blackmailer, and shauna has a sexy milf adventure :)
mari is so funny i hope she never gets a backstory or emotional depth. she’s in the woods to cook stew and be a hater. and they’re all out of stew
if you're not obsessed with anything weird and niche please try harder. stop going outside for a while. consider getting weirder about the things you already like
the first rule of the wilderness is have fun and be yourself. the second rule of the wilderness is happy wife happy life. the third rule of the wilderness is dont let misty in the kitchen
the first rule of the wilderness is have fun and be yourself. the second rule of the wilderness is happy wife happy life. the third rule of the wilderness is dont let misty in the kitchen
I just think that Shauna should hunt down and kill the sleazy cop who emotionally preyed on her underaged daughter, but that's just me. <3
There’s religious trauma and then there’s whatever the hell is going on between van and Lottie
it is so clear in yellowjackets that the women never had the chance to grow and develop, that they’re all still girls, and it’s so incredibly clear in their body movements it drives me insane. natalie moves like when you’re growing and your limbs start getting bigger and the rest of your body can’t keep up yet so now you’re just.. slinging yourself, walking and carrying your limbs behind you. and shauna slumps and saunters like a tired teenager, dragging her feet like a girl with a body too big to carry. misty never got rid of her ‘tic’, pushing her glasses back up and trying to make herself smaller while doing so. taissa still runs through life, losing herself because her feet move too fast for her to keep up with, almost like she is still sleepwalking while awake. it’s something the actresses do so incredibly well at
i really do love jeff that man will stand with his wife through cheating, murder, cannibalism, literally anything. he’s so obsessed with her. like yeah me too buddy.
breaking my silence before s2 to say i think the funniest possible fate reveal for coach ben would be that he did survive the wilderness but just understandably never wants to talk to any of these girls ever again
also i'm like. Obsessed with jeff's whole thing. he's so fucking boring. he owns a furniture store. he was homecoming king. he has vanilla fantasies. he married his high school girlfriend's bff whom he slept with on the side. he keeps himself in top physical shape. he's having an affair--except, no, he's actually just in debt and blackmailed the yellowjackets so he could keep shauna living a comfortable life because he loves her, and oh yeah, the stuff he's using for blackmail? it's shauna's firsthand account of all the truly fucked up shit she did in the wilderness. he's known forever. he doesn't care! he loves his wife! she had an affair and murdered the guy, he doesn't care! he'll go to prison for her! he'll burn the evidence! shut the fuck up, jackie's parents! his wife is so smart and cool! he chooses her over the glorified memory of your dead daughter any day! it's shauna appreciation 24/7/365 baby! he literally just wants to provide for and look hot for his wife & make her happy. the really insane thing is he can't. of course he can't. he's just jeff, he's boring, he's not of the wilderness, he's completely irrelevant. he's not jackie. can't wait to see whatever fucked up thing shauna does next and how jeff is like yes ma'am about it
personally I find that Yellowjackets succeeds where other plane-crash-stranded media falls short. and it's because if you peel back the layers of other shows in this genre, the story is basically the same: people will do what they have to in order to survive, roles will reverse. Yellowjackets does this too, but Yellowjackets isn't about a plane crash and it isn't about survival. it's about the singular, violent, inescapable wilderness of girlhood, not nature. the wilderness is a backdrop and though the girls use it to tell their story (literally Van beginning an origin story in the season 2 trailer), it isn't... really that important. before they crash they were already icing their teammates out, betraying one another, surviving brutally through youth. being a girl is just like that. yeah, the setting and the strange magic helps reveal that story to the audience in a shocking and palatable and larger-than-life way, it brings to view what that complex inner world of girlhood really felt like. but it has something to say other than "people will do horrible things to survive". if you were ever a teenage girl, you already know that.
fellas is it gay to light your best friend’s funeral pyre, say “i don’t know where you end and i begin”, and then eat her perfectly barbecued body afterwards?
god forbid women have hobbies like braiding their dead best friends hair to cover up that she’s missing an ear or putting makeup on her corpse to make her look less necrotic or hallucinating a bacchanal feast while cannibalizing her
