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« Last post by Evan_B on Yesterday at 09:12:17 PM »I guess I'm gonna be that loser and talk about Fallout.
So Season 2 was kind of a mess. Plot and pacing-wise it just felt sort of all over the place, from Lucy's "I'm addicted to drugs!" episode to "let's have an episode where the Ghoul is impaled on a lamp post." There was plenty of weird b-plots, also, what with Norm's odd expedition that felt like it went nowhere, to that witch doctor getting reintroduced just to have his brain wiped by Hank, and the show's insistence to keep its dual-plotline structure when half the flashbacks felt like an excuse to pad the paychecks for Goggins and Theroux, who is charming but speaks in vapid absolutes.
Whereas Season 1 felt like this wildly fresh and brisk introduction to this world, so much of this season felt like "here's where we introduce one thing so that it can be relevant later in this season (or more insultingly, this episode)." and it just made me realize how much I adored YELLOWJACKETS SEASONS 1-2 and less so season 3, BABY.
I spent a snowed-in weekend catching up on that series, and I quite enjoyed it, mostly because it does a very good job of projecting horror and supernatural spookiness but really just being about people doing terrible and redemptive things. The show really is about the horrific nature of perspective, as even the opening sequence from the pilot is completely (albeit somewhat sloppily) recontextualized by the end of the third season. The first and second season are much more tightly plotted, though the show starts to go off the rails by the end of the second season and through much of the third season, which feels much more meandering and ambiguous. If anything, it makes me want to watch more horror television- not like, overly serialized stuff like American Horror Story, tightly plotted stuff like Midnight Mass. I've already watched quite a bit of the Flanaverse, but I would be curious to explore more.
Yellowjackets has also made me pine for The X-Files. I think I might try to watch more of that.
So Season 2 was kind of a mess. Plot and pacing-wise it just felt sort of all over the place, from Lucy's "I'm addicted to drugs!" episode to "let's have an episode where the Ghoul is impaled on a lamp post." There was plenty of weird b-plots, also, what with Norm's odd expedition that felt like it went nowhere, to that witch doctor getting reintroduced just to have his brain wiped by Hank, and the show's insistence to keep its dual-plotline structure when half the flashbacks felt like an excuse to pad the paychecks for Goggins and Theroux, who is charming but speaks in vapid absolutes.
Whereas Season 1 felt like this wildly fresh and brisk introduction to this world, so much of this season felt like "here's where we introduce one thing so that it can be relevant later in this season (or more insultingly, this episode)." and it just made me realize how much I adored YELLOWJACKETS SEASONS 1-2 and less so season 3, BABY.
I spent a snowed-in weekend catching up on that series, and I quite enjoyed it, mostly because it does a very good job of projecting horror and supernatural spookiness but really just being about people doing terrible and redemptive things. The show really is about the horrific nature of perspective, as even the opening sequence from the pilot is completely (albeit somewhat sloppily) recontextualized by the end of the third season. The first and second season are much more tightly plotted, though the show starts to go off the rails by the end of the second season and through much of the third season, which feels much more meandering and ambiguous. If anything, it makes me want to watch more horror television- not like, overly serialized stuff like American Horror Story, tightly plotted stuff like Midnight Mass. I've already watched quite a bit of the Flanaverse, but I would be curious to explore more.
Yellowjackets has also made me pine for The X-Files. I think I might try to watch more of that.
