I am a big fan of season 1 but am VERY against this going 4 or 5 seasons. 3 feels like the max.

This is a show, like lost, I'm very confident the showrunners know exactly where they want to land. But I really dont have faith that they can carry this into 40-50 hours of television...UNLESS they completely abandon the direction we think its going and flash forward a half-decade/decade every season. I wouldnt mind seeing where these charaters are at end of college, at 30 and ultimately where they are now ~45ish.

Casting clearly knows what theyre doing, and the casting porn has been one of the most endearing and interesting aspects to the fandom of the show.

Like Lost, once I realized (and if the posts exist from back then in PTP/Reviews, I'd be curious to check myself) that Lindelof/Cuse knew what they were doing, I kinda stopped caring about the mysteries of the island. I just loved the hang and the writing. Which Lindelof CLEARLY learned too and put into his very lean series that have followed.

Some people couldnt un-reddit-brain/Doc Jensen themselves from the LOST "mysteries" and I know people that wont watch Lindelof shows because of Lost's tricks/"lies"/red herrings.


Back to Yellowjackets. I already miss this show. I love the woods scenese, I love the performances, I dont care at all about the mysticism. I hope its all nonsense and just a symptom of trauma. To be honest, I've been very "lets fast forward" through some of the Adam stuff, and the Taissa and her marriage/son scenes. I dont like them. I love what Taissa old/young are doing performance-wise but I really check out during her horror scenes.

If this becomes a show about ghosts and mystic powers, I'm genuinely not interested. But I love cults (lottie's minions) and the will of humans when in survival mode.

And I love Melanie Lynskey.