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I think they (clumsily) got rid of it for good last season. Given the negative reaction to that entire plot I don’t see them bringing it back up nn
Christina Ricci getting her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today
This show has more holes than swiss cheese but I still enjoy it.
It feels like they don’t actually have a plan for the past plot, so the present plot is struggling to make sense of itself.
Also Van showing up to the meetup with Symone and Sammy is so messyyy, I screamed. Sleeping in that woman’s bed with her wife every night and you have the nerve to sit next to her like that?!
It’s annoying because the show shouldn’t be as weak as this. The concept is great, they nailed the casting, the seasons are short so they don’t have to load it with filler and yet…
There’s just no substance to it. Especially to the modern scenes. It’s like all the thought had been given to the crash era and none to what’s happening after.
There’s just no substance to it. Especially to the modern scenes. It’s like all the thought had been given to the crash era and none to what’s happening after.
I keep on watching with a similar feeling as when Pretty Little Liars started going downhill.
The way the adults treat Misty makes no sense to me, plus the whole true crime amateur investigation is pure cringe. At least Tai's family made a comeback.
Why is Travis simply in the background ok with everything that's going on with Coach?
The way the adults treat Misty makes no sense to me, plus the whole true crime amateur investigation is pure cringe. At least Tai's family made a comeback.
Why is Travis simply in the background ok with everything that's going on with Coach?
It is... but it's also the kind of nonsense solitary (or unremarkable) people start getting up to to keep themselves busy and feeling important and then before they know it they've fell down a right-wing rabbit hole. I mean, we have a whole industry of citizen journalists who think they're blowing the lid off of every conspiracy going but they really just know how to make YouTube coverimages.
Oh, 100%! It's wild how the chaotic wilderness era somehow feels more grounded in sisterhood and a twisted moral code compared to the present, where everything feels fractured and grim. It really makes you wonder if the writers are saying that their past horrors didn’t just haunt them—they defined them. Like, they're irreparably broken by the choices they made, and no matter what they do now, they're locked into this downward spiral. Which is lazy writing to me.
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I saw a theory that
the wilderness they're in is on an abandoned cinnabar mine (the brown river) and that they all have mercury poisoning from eating the bear that had fallen ill from a mercury-infected water supply.
Just the mention of the bear and river though made me remember how many fucking things have happened in this show that I truly have zero memory of.
Just the mention of the bear and river though made me remember how many fucking things have happened in this show that I truly have zero memory of.
My god, I despise teen Shauna.
Adult Shauna is more watchable thanks to Melanie Lynskey, but things her character does annoy me too.
I really am developing a love/hate relationship with this show ddd. At times it can be both thrilling and funny, other times it just plods along with no sense of direction. It's starting to make me feel how I felt about Killing Eve, but hopefully it doesn't become as shit as that one did.
Overall I still think this season is better than the last one though. But I wouldn't say it's great.
Adult Shauna is more watchable thanks to Melanie Lynskey, but things her character does annoy me too.
I really am developing a love/hate relationship with this show ddd. At times it can be both thrilling and funny, other times it just plods along with no sense of direction. It's starting to make me feel how I felt about Killing Eve, but hopefully it doesn't become as shit as that one did.
Overall I still think this season is better than the last one though. But I wouldn't say it's great.
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Honestly, she’s lost so much of the nuance she was filled with in the first two seasons. It’s quite … one note? And we know Sophie Nelisse is capable of a layered performance. It’s strange.
The wildness story is overall still super compelling, and I’m excited about the direction it’s taking with the potential group split, but the adult timeline just doesn’t fully work anymore? There are parts that are great, but the way the tonal shifts felt exciting in the first season just feel a little clunky now. It’s like a 10/10 show that’s operating at a 7. The potential is there I just don’t know why it’s being wasted on such nonsense half the time.
Yeah the concept and cast are so strong but I’m starting to think the creators never actually had a long term plan. I’m still enjoying the wilderness story and the show hasn’t completely bottomed out but it could be so much stronger.
If they’re building to another survivor reveal please stick the landing this time. Adult Lottie was so underutilized.
If they’re building to another survivor reveal please stick the landing this time. Adult Lottie was so underutilized.
I’m sure they knew the broad strokes. I imagine they have the major beats they want to hit in the wilderness, and how it’ll all wrap up, but it’s detail they’re filling in that isn’t working.
There’s just not enough material in the modern scenes and I’m not sure what the solution is either. The more survivors, the less tension there will be in the wilderness, as we know more and more people live. And the inverse problem, we also now have three characters who we know survived but are now dead (Travis, Nat and Lottie) which makes it hard to keep investing much in their wilderness scenes.
I’m not saying LOST style additional mysteries are the answer, but they should be having a lot more fun writing for the older cast than what we’re seeing.
There’s just not enough material in the modern scenes and I’m not sure what the solution is either. The more survivors, the less tension there will be in the wilderness, as we know more and more people live. And the inverse problem, we also now have three characters who we know survived but are now dead (Travis, Nat and Lottie) which makes it hard to keep investing much in their wilderness scenes.
I’m not saying LOST style additional mysteries are the answer, but they should be having a lot more fun writing for the older cast than what we’re seeing.