Yellowjackets

God I adored this show. First season is spectacular, a marvel, some of the best TV i have ever seen.

Season 2 started going slightly of the rails but the introduction of new/old characters and general investment in the characters made me keep going.

Season 3 guess way, way over the top. Absolutely nothing is even remotely realistic anymore, from the younglings insanely intricate survival costumes, their story advanced camp, the character development. And it all falls completely apart in the last couple of episodes. I feel nothing at all now, writing this as i am shaking my head, bored from the season finale. Im sorry to say but you must either be a little light in the mental departement of you still enjoy this as much as when it started, or, you care absolutely nothing at all about story and development but your just greatly invested in the characters.

Personally i am definitely not coming back for season 4.

This show WAS great. But now in season 3 the writing has just gotten so bad that nothing even makes much sense anymore. It's just all over the place now. They just keep adding more and more new mysteries without ever finishing the previous ones! They just seem to phase each mystery out with a new one. And it's gotten to the point that not a single character is even likeable anymore, except maybe Misty. Shauna is so unhinged it's not even realistic. I didn't think i could hate her character any more, but she manages to get worse in every episode, both young & grown versions. I'm losing interest due to their inability to ever actually finish a mystery and because nobodies actions ever make sense anymore!

This is not exactly an easy show to review which might be part of the problem. Trying to compare it to other shows would be a mistake. It is alot like "Lord of The Flies" and "Alive" but with teenage girls. However that is just a simple explanation. Basically a successful girls soccer team crash lands in the remote wilderness and are forced to learn how to survive. 25 years later the trauma the survivors face is still haunting them. Part survival epic, part psychological horror and part coming-of-age drama. Its about not dealing with your past and what happens years later when it comes back to haunt you.

I finally gave in and gave Yellowjackets a try after hearing so many great things about it. I actually liked it much more than I thought I would, to the point where I'm actually mad at myself for putting it off as long as I did. All the twists and turns will keep on the edge of your seat every episode to the point it becomes addicting. It has everything you want in a good show...drama, mystery, comedy, action, etc. There's not a bad episode in the series, there's so slow episodes but not bad episodes. The acting is what really carries the show though. Melanie Lynskey deserves every bit of praise that she's been getting for her role. She's so good that it's the type of performance that's going to lead to even bigger things for her.

The series started off great-I was hooked immediately. The concept of a group trying to survive in a thrilling jungle-mountain scenario was really engaging.

Season 1 - 9/10 Stayed true to its storyline: a group of high school students struggling to survive in the wild. It was intense and well-executed.

Season 2 - 8.5/10 I didn't love that the focus shifted away from the teens. The spotlight was split between them and the adults, making it feel less like the teen survival series it started as.

Season 3 - 6.5/10 This season feels like they almost forgot about the teens. There's a big jump from the last episode of Season 2, but they never explain how the group went from a bad situation to a better one-it just skips over it completely with explaining nothing .

Instead, about 70% of the focus is now on the adults, which I don't like. The interesting survival aspects of the younger characters are mostly ignored.

The first episodes had minimal action, making them boring to watch. Now that six episodes have aired, there's some improvement, but I'm still not happy with the direction. Maybe it's just me, but I started watching this as a teen survival show, and now it has turned into something else.

If you don't mind the shift in focus, you might still enjoy it, but for me, it's been a little disappointing .