my thoughts watching the yellowjackets pilot

title should’ve made this clear but spoilers for the first episode of yellowjackets. i just started watching it and i have Thoughts

0:00- oh right this is an answer to lord of the flies. tracks.

2:05- are these parents and coaches? did all the girls die??

2:50- if soccer was this exhilarating irl i wouldn’t have ditched seven years of it to run cross country

4:30- this girl’s gay i fucking know it

5:05- oh no this is too real i don’t like this

5:27- (physically hurting for jackie)

5:56- fuck is that her mom? it’s telling that i can’t figure out if this person is playing a high schooler or a really young parent

6:14- oh god oh fuck she’s cooked. if that was my mother i woulda been the first death in this show

6:45- wait no this is another high schooler. this might be even worse. jackie you poor poor soul

7:45- yes! you tell em! the “actually successful but non-male/‘mainstream’ sport being overlooked for a mediocre male team in a more popular sport” is so painfully real

8:13-… oh…

9:05- can these reporters not understand that you’re asking her to relive unimaginably severe trauma for the sake of your bottom line? i’m fighting

12:15- okay this is dark as fuck but also so well done

15:34- male ally detected

15:41- i think natalie’s officially my favorite character. get his ass

19:41- i could easily write an essay about this scene alone. jesus christ this is good stuff

27:05- beautifully timed flashback there holy moly. i can only imagine what must’ve been going through adult shauna’s mind

27:49- right next to the rainbow scarf? this girl has to be gay. if that wasn’t an incredibly heavy-handed bit of foreshadowing i’m gonna lose my marbles

28:49- so apparently driving a bunch of cars and trucks out to east buttfuck and getting drunk with people you barely know is a universal experience 

39:13- OH. so jeff’s a piece of shit. and shauna’s really not great either. 

39:48- if that baby comment was foreshadowing so help me god

41:37- the things they’re putting this poor woman through. i already know this is gonna be brutal

42:15- if natalie was an adult i’d say this looks like living the dream. but this is a tv show about high schoolers so i smell a traumatic backstory coming up

42:25- i have a feeling this devoutly-religious thing is gonna involve some sort of “losing all faith in religion in the face of unspeakable horrors” arc

43:03- oh my god no please tell me this poor baby didn’t just find her mom dead

43:10- mouse swimming -> forced swim test -> used to test for depression-like behaviors in rodents/how long before they reach a point of despair/hopelessness and just float instead of swimming -> oh i don’t like where this is going

43:22- “remember, the most important thing is to have fun” is exactly what i’d hear from my father minutes before he’d be ready to have an aneurysm over a shitty call in an elementary-school soccer game

43:55- my eyes immediately went to shauna’s little light-up pegboard saying “fuck you” and the nostalgia is unbelievable. i’m also in love with the whole attic bedroom thing

44:23- the empty halls and plane seats is a little heavy-handed with the symbolism but i respect it

44:30- this is exactly how i feel watching a titanic reenactment. don’t get on that fucking plane girls PLEASE

45:34- wait who’s this dude?

45:46- “remember when you came to hilton head with us?” is painful. i’m gonna be devastated if i have to watch a friends-since-childhood duo get nuked because of some asshat named jeff

46:05- valium? jackie’s a real mom friend for that ngl  something tells me that’s a special surprise that’s gonna help us later

46:22- hold up did shauna give her that heart necklace? i figured it was jeff but damn this girl might be even gayer than i thought 

46:29- “now nothing can touch you” oh fuck oh no i know what that means

47:12- wait is that- so they DO talk!

48:13- “if someone’s digging, we are ALL fucked” you have my full and undivided attention yellowjackets. i’m scared to know how it could possibly get worse than what we already know

49:05- why does shauna have a gun why does shauna have a-

49:13- a volkswagen beetle with a frunk. brilliantly done from a doing-shady-shit standpoint and a car-appreciation standpoint 

49:22- if this was breaking bad this dude would already be dead.

49:49- the “clueless person wanders into the middle of sketchy shit and holds it up while people hide what they’re doing” trope is equal parts infuriating and wonderfully suspenseful 

50:14- this just went from lord of the flies to the donner party real fucking fast

51:11- misty is so librarian-coded

52:11- every time i think this show can’t get darker…

52:53- whoever plays misty deserves some kind of award. how do you make someone who looks so cute and harmless so fucking chilling

54:20- jesus christ imagine getting on an airplane and waking up from a zonked-out-on-valium nap to the plane crashing. i’m never sleeping on a plane again.

54:47- this is just straight up nightmare fuel. well fucking done yellowjackets