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ayayrawn said:
"Where are your kids uncle logan??
this show kills me
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I am still not sure if Greg is delusional about his abilities or just doesn’t care. I really think that everyone will end up becoming absolute pariahs and that Greg will be the only one standing and will take over the empire. Of course the empire is absolutely crumbling and built on sand.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
I am still not sure if Greg is delusional about his abilities or just doesn’t care. I really think that everyone will end up becoming absolute pariahs and that Greg will be the only one standing and will take over the empire. Of course the empire is absolutely crumbling and built on sand.
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Greg seems like a textbook example of a moron failing up, of which there are plenty in the 1% I'm sure.
 
Succession is fantastic, and although I’m sad it’s ending I do truly agree with the decision. Having re-watched all three seasons before the new one started you can kind of see a similar pattern playing out across the storylines. It’s nice that there will be some sort of finality to what happens. I mean I’d take like one more season cause I wasn’t prepared, but I think it’ll work out ending it now. Oh how I’ve missed this brutal dialogue.


Now Barry ending with season 4…I don’t know. I thought it was going to go on for another two or more. I can see why with how season 3 ended, but I was hoping for more weird, unexpected twists in the story.


And now reportedly, the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm will also probably be its last. It’s come and gone as it pleases over the years but supposedly this one will actually be the end. I’m okay with that too.
 
In other, less prestigious television news, I have to admit I'm in the thrall of the new season of Love is Blind once more. It's absolute trash, but things are kind of promising as there is a good couple we can actually root for (there hasn't been one of those since the first season), and still there are complete garbage people running headlong into bad situations; while the latter is entertaining, it can be really soul-decaying without the former.
 
I'm still on board to watch the full season, but I'm getting sophomore slump vibes from Yellowjackets' return. The first season culminated with the singular present-day storyline fracturing into several different threads, and none of the resulting storylines are gripping me that much.
 
Bull Shannon said:
I'm still on board to watch the full season, but I'm getting sophomore slump vibes from Yellowjackets' return. The first season culminated with the singular present-day storyline fracturing into several different threads, and none of the resulting storylines are gripping me that much.
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I'm thoroughly enjoying season 2 of Yellowjackets 🐝 thus far! I think it's equally as great as the first sesson 🤷
 
I’ve heard reactions on both ends of the spectrum for Yellowjackets season 2. What has tempered my excitement to pay for Showtime again and watch S2 is that the show writers are coming up with some of the mysterious elements before they come up with what actually happened/is happening. I feel like Ricci confirmed that on her WTF interview unless I’m remembering wrong?
 
Hollywood said:
I'm thoroughly enjoying season 2 of Yellowjackets 🐝 thus far! I think it's equally as great as the first sesson 🤷
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I did binge the first season, so it's certainly possible taking the story in bites isn't to its benefit. And there are still fun, pulpy thrills there. However, I just don't know what Taissa has been doing the last two episodes, Bonnie basically spent two episodes finding out that Natalie is missing (the scene between her and the motel manager was pure padding), and Shauna's story is playing out with barely any urgency. It feels like the first season brought all these characters together, and now they're back to just doing their own things. Which is where I get the sophomore slump feeling; you can simultaneously go for broke with a single first season while leaving a few things on the table, but the second season is basically a second pilot: how will we sustain this for multiple seasons, simultaneously moving the story forward and running in place for years on end?
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I’ve heard reactions on both ends of the spectrum for Yellowjackets season 2. What has tempered my excitement to pay for Showtime again and watch S2 is that the show writers are coming up with some of the mysterious elements before they come up with what actually happened/is happening. I feel like Ricci confirmed that on her WTF interview unless I’m remembering wrong?
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Definitely getting some Lost vibes from the way several balls are up in the air and where they land depends on what answers the writers have for certain questions. Mild season 1 spoiler: Which is weird, because Season 1 seemed relatively grounded in the idea that whatever supernatural element in the woods was a collective, Lord of the Flies style, invention; Season 2 seems a lot more willing to humor the idea that there's a specific "it" they communed with out there.

I think they need to take a page from Lost's book and kill their darlings re: the 90s survival story; they clearly have to pull some punches in the present-day story in order to maintain tension in the past. They oughta slingshot it: let the flashbacks escalate and then show the rescue, then let the present-day stuff go hog wild with the flashbacks to the girls adapting to post-rescue life (as well as whatever batshit stuff happens after they get back).
 
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