Speaker 1: Warning.
Speaker 2: This episode contains spoilers for season three, episode one of
Speaker 2: Yellow Jackets.
Speaker 3: You warned.
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Speaker 3: In today's episode, we are talking about Yellowjackets.
Speaker 1: We talked about season one and we loved it. We
Speaker 1: covered season two every single week and we were a
Speaker 1: little bit disappointed. What is season three offering.
Speaker 3: We have checked in on the first premiere episode and
Speaker 3: we will be talking about it along with our general feelings.
Speaker 1: About puzzle box mystery box shows. How'd you do them right?
Speaker 1: How'd you do them wrong? How many are there? There's
Speaker 1: a lot of them? Guys. So yeah, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: But first shipping out of their lock for the season
Speaker 2: three premiere of Yellowjackets. Okay, Rosie. Yellowjackets is back for
Speaker 2: season three after as you mentioned up top, a stellar
Speaker 2: and quite intriguing for a season, followed by a second
Speaker 2: season where we started to get into crazy Riverdale territory.
Speaker 1: Yes, lots of wild stuff going on.
Speaker 3: If you haven't watched Yellow Jackets, you can go back
Speaker 3: and listen to our We did an episode about Yellow
Speaker 3: Jackets season one. You can go back and listen to that.
Speaker 3: We also did coverage of the whole of season two.
Speaker 3: You can go back and listen to that. Season one
Speaker 3: basically dual timeline show in the nineties timeline a group
Speaker 3: of girls who play soccer crash in the woods and
Speaker 3: have to survive, and in the future, the adult survivors
Speaker 3: of that group deal with someone blackmailing them about the truth.
Speaker 1: That was very intriguing.
Speaker 3: It was also weirdly intimate and basically just a character piece,
Speaker 3: and that really pushed it through. There was lots of
Speaker 3: hints of what could come. Is there something supernatural? Is
Speaker 3: they're gonna be cannibalism? Will the girls survive it? Ended
Speaker 3: with the death of one of the girls, Jackie. That
Speaker 3: was a big deal Ella Pernell's character. We also discovered
Speaker 3: who the blackmailer was. It was one of the main
Speaker 3: girl's husband, Jeff. We have Shanna and Jeff. That was
Speaker 3: very messed up of them. And then we leave the
Speaker 3: show and go to season two where everybody is just oh,
Speaker 3: and by the way, the girls killed someone.
Speaker 1: Will that come back to want them? We don't know.
Speaker 1: They killed someone In the modern day.
Speaker 3: They killed a sexy guy who called Adam and they
Speaker 3: chopped him up. It was pre messed up. Season two,
Speaker 3: they finally succumbed to cannibalism. That was basically the moment
Speaker 3: everybody waited for. We saw them eat Jackie's body. Did
Speaker 3: they choose to do it? Did the Woods want them
Speaker 3: to do it? Then we got in the modern day
Speaker 3: into the truth about one of the girls from the forest, Lottie.
Speaker 1: Was she running a cult?
Speaker 3: Was it just the wellness center? Had she been in charge?
Speaker 3: Was she mentally stable in the woods and in modern day?
Speaker 3: All those answers were left open to us as we
Speaker 3: continued towards season three. But the biggest thing you need
Speaker 3: to know about the end of season two was that
Speaker 3: one of our favorite characters, Natalie in the modern day,
Speaker 3: she was killed Juliette Lewis accidentally killed by her bestie
Speaker 3: want to be bestie Misty played by Christina Ricci, and
Speaker 3: an injection of bentanol. So, as you can tell, lots
Speaker 3: going on in this show. Jason, what did you think
Speaker 3: of episode one of season three?
Speaker 1: Did it hook you back in? Did it leave you
Speaker 1: with more questions? What did you feel?
Speaker 2: I'll say this and stay tuned for a broader conversation
Speaker 2: about mystery box shows in general, which this show most
Speaker 2: definitely is.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I will say that one thing that I appreciated from
Speaker 2: this episode was that it displayed a self awareness about
Speaker 2: where the show was after season two and what the
Speaker 2: audience is looking for, and I think it tries in
Speaker 2: various ways to deliver those things and to subvert the
Speaker 2: expectation of those things in interesting ways. There's a I
Speaker 2: kind of I thought that intro was cute in which
Speaker 2: you think, oh, here we are, We're like going into
Speaker 2: cannibal territory with the girls like running around in the
Speaker 2: woods and biting each other. But then it just turns
Speaker 2: out there playing like a kind of tag game with
Speaker 2: a totem, but there's still a lot of kind of
Speaker 2: like a diffuse direction and a lack of a drive
Speaker 2: towards moving the plot along at times that makes me
Speaker 2: feel as if the show is still kind of spinning
Speaker 2: its wheels for it here, and even when the plot
Speaker 2: is kind of moving and you feel like we're driving
Speaker 2: towards these answers. For instance, Vans, there's a scene in which,
Speaker 2: after the the reveal of the game is made, then
Speaker 2: you get Van like addressing the girls in this kind
Speaker 2: of pithy monologue that.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like she's the storyteller, but she's that
Speaker 3: morphs into this kind of like into this speech of
Speaker 3: sorts in.
Speaker 2: Which it's clear that the girls look to her in
Speaker 2: a way that is different than they have looked to
Speaker 2: her in the past, kind of as a leader. But yes,
Speaker 2: to your point, also was a storyteller, someone who like
Speaker 2: gives structure to their experiences there on the island, And
Speaker 2: I like that in theory. My issue was it just
Speaker 2: didn't feel like it landed to me. Yeah, and so
Speaker 2: I appreciate that they did that, but it didn't feel
Speaker 2: like it was really working. And and then there were
Speaker 2: other things that just just like why is this happening?
Speaker 2: When you know when adult tyson, adult van go on
Speaker 2: there kind of relive the old days, kind of teen
Speaker 2: style trouble making tour of town. It was a little
Speaker 2: bit like why, like what's so?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: Also is your I's not still in a coma? Like
Speaker 3: what is going on there? Like this is a Taisa
Speaker 3: come on?
Speaker 2: They at least addressed her political career in a very
Speaker 2: quick line exposition DVID, which she's like, yes, uh the
Speaker 2: quickest like state senator ever to be impeached.
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually, like I'm out, I'm out. They just cut
Speaker 1: that head of the way. I definitely agree with you,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was like the shining kind of
Speaker 3: like burning immediate capture that a lot of us wanted
Speaker 3: to feel like, oh, we're hooked back into this show.
Speaker 1: But I do think the show.
Speaker 3: Is still relying on the one thing it knows it has,
Speaker 3: which is an unbelievable cast and very interesting characters. I
Speaker 3: am still dedicated to finding out what happens to these
Speaker 3: girls because I do care, but.
Speaker 1: It is interesting and once again, as if you ever.
Speaker 3: Listen to our speed recaps of season two, so much
Speaker 3: happens in these episodes like this episode, we're back in
Speaker 3: the forest.
Speaker 1: The girls are trying to survive.
Speaker 3: They've got these new witchy huts because at the end
Speaker 3: of season to Coach Ben tried to burn them alive
Speaker 3: in the house they were staying in in the forest,
Speaker 3: which was because they were cannibals, So you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm not even going to judge him that much.
Speaker 1: But they are now living. Spring has come.
Speaker 3: They're doing okay. Seanna is not doing okay. She lost
Speaker 3: the baby in season two. She's very bitter. She's very
Speaker 3: sociopathic towards the other girls in the group.
Speaker 1: She's not feeling happy. It's going bad.
Speaker 3: In modern day, we see Natalie's memorial rap to her.
Speaker 3: Then we see Misty getting drunk and she kind of
Speaker 3: assaults some guys at a bar, but is saved by Walter.
Speaker 3: We still don't know if he's a cannibal or a
Speaker 3: serial killer or something.
Speaker 1: He's just her fellow citizen detective. We then also see this.
Speaker 3: Is the big moment that I think has inspired the
Speaker 3: larger part of our conversation that we're going to go
Speaker 3: on to have, which is Coach Ben, who is trying
Speaker 3: to survive without the girls and their weird kind of
Speaker 3: supernatural tinge structure that they created in the forest, but
Speaker 3: is digging around and he finds a military hatch, and
Speaker 3: he finds a bunch of military supplies, food, dried goods
Speaker 3: that he can survive on, and they say k uh
Speaker 3: on the top and it's very lost.
Speaker 1: It's very much leaning into that.
Speaker 3: Idea that a lot of us had theorized about in
Speaker 3: the first and second season, on whether or not the
Speaker 3: island was not in fact supernatural and was instead a
Speaker 3: place that they had done some kind of experiments hallucinogenic.
Speaker 2: Experimental, chemic chemical weapons.
Speaker 1: Would kind of and that definitely feels that way.
Speaker 3: Shawna's daughter, Callie, who we were big haters of, she's
Speaker 3: a very good, haterable character. She throws some entrails on
Speaker 3: people at school who were chatting shit about her mom.
Speaker 3: She bonds with her mum, Shana over it. The beloved
Speaker 3: and delightful Melanielinski, around who the whole show basically revolves,
Speaker 3: and of course they bond over it because Shawna's a
Speaker 3: terrible person.
Speaker 1: And then the episode ends, I think with a really
Speaker 1: interesting hook.
Speaker 3: That was the thing I was thinking about the most,
Speaker 3: which is coach Ben digs a hole and catches one
Speaker 3: of the girls, Mari, who Shuna has been kind of
Speaker 3: fighting with, which makes me think we probably won't notice
Speaker 3: Mari's gone for too long. But it's very interesting to
Speaker 3: me because while we've seen these girls, you know, cannibalize
Speaker 3: another person, kind of fight amongst themselves, decide that they're
Speaker 3: gonna hunt one of their own. We saw them do
Speaker 3: that with Natalie, but they ended up, you know, with
Speaker 3: Harvey dying, so.
Speaker 1: They decided to eat him instead.
Speaker 3: And it's very interesting to me that the moment you
Speaker 3: see an adult man standing over a girl in a ditch,
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, this is the bad guy though, like
Speaker 3: he's gonna do something bad, he's gonna capture And I'm
Speaker 3: interested to see how they play that because it could
Speaker 3: bring the girls together. It could be an interesting kind
Speaker 3: of commentary on what we view as evil or what
Speaker 3: we view as dangerous. I thought that was an interesting end,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I'll be happy. I'm going to be intrigued
Speaker 3: mostly to see how our listeners like this episode and
Speaker 3: how other people in our space are the critics like it,
Speaker 3: because I do think Yellow Jackets is probably this show
Speaker 3: in the last few years.
Speaker 1: That had that unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Stirling first season and has kind of struggled to catch
Speaker 3: up thanks to the nature of mystery box storytelling, which
Speaker 3: we are going to come back and talk about in
Speaker 3: a minute after a message from rock Cocky.
Speaker 1: And we're back, Okay.
Speaker 2: The mystery Box Rosie, which I think this show definitely is,
Speaker 2: which I would define as shows that are built around
Speaker 2: some kind of riddle, some kind of puzzle, and that
Speaker 2: missing piece or missing pieces of information create an air
Speaker 2: of strangeness around the show that, if it works correctly,
Speaker 2: really hooks the viewer. Shows in this genre include, currently
Speaker 2: in season two, Severance.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's the biggest one.
Speaker 2: I think is a huge mystery box show right now.
Speaker 2: The originator of the form is probably Twin Peaks Lak,
Speaker 2: I think, and.
Speaker 1: Then obviously early ones I would say some arcs of The.
Speaker 2: X Files, some arcs of the X Files. I think
Speaker 2: The X Files is a is a Monster of the
Speaker 2: Week show with through the snow Smoking Man and the
Speaker 2: kind of like loose conspiratorial threads that kind of like
Speaker 2: go through seasons with those particularly things. Has mystery box elements,
Speaker 2: but is mostly a Monster of the Week show. Then
Speaker 2: there is of course Lost, which was I would say
Speaker 2: the probably the most successful, and.
Speaker 3: Also I would say the reason that any of us
Speaker 3: even know what this is. I feel like without Lost
Speaker 3: this concept and conversation, and also the expected kind of
Speaker 3: reaction to a mystery box show, which even on the
Speaker 3: Wikipedia for mystery box I think this is really funny.
Speaker 1: It's like viewers are drawn by the lure of the
Speaker 1: mythos of the program, but can lose interest if the
Speaker 1: program sets up too many mysteries but fails to resolve
Speaker 1: them in a.
Speaker 2: It's literally Wikipedia, Wikipedia, thank you.
Speaker 1: Like the funniest thing about it is the mystery.
Speaker 3: Box show is known in part because of the lack
Speaker 3: of success of mystery box shows, including Lost. Even though
Speaker 3: Lost definitely hooked people for the longest amount of time,
Speaker 3: solving the ultimate can of what Lost was and where
Speaker 3: Lost was going, and where Lost was set and whether
Speaker 3: Lost was the afterlife or whether it was purgatory. Those
Speaker 3: questions hooked viewers, but whether or not the show landed
Speaker 3: them is another question. And then you have Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: very interesting because also you have other shows with fantastic
Speaker 3: concepts like Under the Dome from twenty thirteen, A.
Speaker 4: Dome dot, and we mentioned Under the Dome as we
Speaker 4: were as we were compiling our list of misery Box shows,
Speaker 4: I screamed because first of all, I completely forgot about
Speaker 4: cost dome, and second of all, Under the Dome like
Speaker 4: came out hot, like first two three episodes of.
Speaker 2: Under the Dome, yep, went crazy. I was like, what
Speaker 2: is up with this dome?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 3: Truly, I was like that Under the Dome is one
Speaker 3: of the programs that I And this is a conversation
Speaker 3: for a different day, but I do think it's very interesting.
Speaker 1: On reels and.
Speaker 3: TikTok, there is an entire cottage industry of people just
Speaker 3: sharing moments from movies and being like, what would you do?
Speaker 1: Or he saved this guy's life?
Speaker 3: And Under the Dome is one of the most TikTok
Speaker 3: and real shows because it has so many great moments
Speaker 3: in the pilot of the truck almost crashing into the
Speaker 3: dome and people trying to communicate through the dome. It's
Speaker 3: a great concept based on Stephen King's best selling novel.
Speaker 1: But again, could I tell you what happened at the
Speaker 1: end of that show?
Speaker 3: No, because it was canceled, first of all, and also
Speaker 3: because a lot of times mystery box shows do not
Speaker 3: keep us going, keep us connected and having those water
Speaker 3: cooler conversations throughout their multiple seasons.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, This is a conversation I've
Speaker 2: had a lot about. I think Lost is a good
Speaker 2: way to kind of unpack the kind of two philosophies
Speaker 2: of the Mystery Box Show. I'm my co host malr
Speaker 2: Rubn really enjoyed the Lost finale because for her it's
Speaker 2: about the characters and the emotions, and I was disappointed
Speaker 2: in it because for me, I feel like there's a
Speaker 2: social contract with the Mystery Bock Show in which you
Speaker 2: use the mystery to keep me engaged. Therefore, when we
Speaker 2: get to the end, you gotta throw me a bone
Speaker 2: on the answer for the mystery, or else I'm going
Speaker 2: to feel like strung along. Where do you fall on
Speaker 2: character versus answers?
Speaker 3: So I would say generally I am an answers person,
Speaker 3: though Yellow Jackets for the first time has gotten me
Speaker 3: to the point where I care about these characters enough
Speaker 3: that I will keep watching it, and if they got
Speaker 3: satisfying conclusions, I would maybe feel okay. But that is
Speaker 3: the first show where I've really felt that way. Often
Speaker 3: I want an answer. I want, or at least I
Speaker 3: want some cool like existential journey. You know, people talk
Speaker 3: about The Leftovers as a puzzle book show. I don't
Speaker 3: really know if I it is kind of agreed it
Speaker 3: kind of is. But really, to me, that's the most
Speaker 3: effective where you have the characters. You also kind of
Speaker 3: have the answers because it's the rapture, but the conversation
Speaker 3: around what it means to be left behind.
Speaker 1: You almost answer the question at the beginning and then
Speaker 1: look at the fallout. I think that works really well.
Speaker 3: Again, like we've we've talked a lot about like Severance.
Speaker 3: It's great, but I need to know season two, I
Speaker 3: need to start knowing.
Speaker 2: I am definitely at that point with Severance, And I
Speaker 2: will say that like to me shows that Silo is
Speaker 2: a good example of a show that has mystery box
Speaker 2: elements but also basically resolved the the kind of the
Speaker 2: big show initial strange puzzle rather quickly so that you
Speaker 2: could move into the story. And I think that's an
Speaker 2: effective way to do it. Westworld, to me, is a
Speaker 2: show in which they could have done that right. You
Speaker 2: could have resolved the mystery box element rather quickly and
Speaker 2: then got into the reality of what this simulated western
Speaker 2: town world really is. But instead they put like the
Speaker 2: mystery box show inside of another mystery box show inside
Speaker 2: of it, and that, to me is where I get
Speaker 2: frustrated and begin to lose interest. I agree with you
Speaker 2: with severance, where I'm starting to feel like, okay, now,
Speaker 2: just kind of lay it out and let the characters
Speaker 2: and let the characters drive the stories.
Speaker 1: I want to know a little bit. I don't want
Speaker 1: to just be watching.
Speaker 3: I think that's the issue is do you get to
Speaker 3: the point where you're just watching only to find out
Speaker 3: the answer? That can become an it's a good viewing experience.
Speaker 3: I would also say something I think is most interesting
Speaker 3: about mystery box shows is the way that they've influenced
Speaker 3: other shows that are.
Speaker 1: Not technically mystery box shows.
Speaker 3: Like True Detective first season, let's talk about that. That's
Speaker 3: really just a murder mystery, right. But HBO, Prestige TV,
Speaker 3: you have these this incredible cast. They're like, Okay, we're
Speaker 3: gonna make it weirder, we're gonna make it more supernatural,
Speaker 3: we're gonna make it potentially elements a mystery box great
Speaker 3: that hooked me, but then at the end they were like, well,
Speaker 3: we only have like this many.
Speaker 1: Forget about guess what forget about?
Speaker 3: Actually it was just this one like Gunna Hansen inspired,
Speaker 3: like kind of leather Face esque killer and you wait a.
Speaker 1: Minute, what, like why make me watch the rest of it? Why?
Speaker 3: And that's I think the unanswered unsolved teasers can be
Speaker 3: very frustrating. And that's not to say we want to
Speaker 3: show that has no you know, no conversation about what
Speaker 3: it's really about, or an ambiguous nature to an ending.
Speaker 1: We love that kind of stuff. That's some of the
Speaker 1: most exciting stuff.
Speaker 3: But mystery box shows can get trapped in a space
Speaker 3: where they're constantly just trying to keep you guessing, and
Speaker 3: that can become its own cycle, which I think is
Speaker 3: what happened with Westworld.
Speaker 2: To me, the most effective recent mystery box show is
Speaker 2: The Good Place. Mike Sure is a good Place because
Speaker 2: because the mysteries basically resolved at the end of season one,
Speaker 2: in which you realize, wait a second, this is they're
Speaker 2: actually I don't want to Well, everybody, if you don't
Speaker 2: have to watch the first season of.
Speaker 1: This show from five years ago.
Speaker 2: Big spoiler here it comes, in which it is revealed
Speaker 2: there actually in the bad Wow, spoiler over, spoiler over,
Speaker 2: spoiler over. Okay, now with that reveal basically done, now
Speaker 2: with the audience and the show kind of on the
Speaker 2: same page. You've basically spent all of that season training
Speaker 2: the audience about what the reality is, and now the
Speaker 2: story can progress in really interesting and unexpected ways. And
Speaker 2: to me, that's kind of the platonic ideal of how
Speaker 2: you do a mystery box show. You have this incredible
Speaker 2: mystery that you lay out in a relatively brief time
Speaker 2: a season or a season and a half. It's then revealed,
Speaker 2: and now the characters take it from there and really
Speaker 2: propel the story forward. I'm not saying that's easy to do.
Speaker 2: I do think that's something that Yellowjackets could have done.
Speaker 2: You could have basically said, Okay, it's a military thing,
Speaker 2: and this is why they're doing that, and this is
Speaker 2: and here are the things that have happened, and here's
Speaker 2: how it's affecting them now that trauma now in the
Speaker 2: present day. I think that could have happened, and that
Speaker 2: would feel pretty good.
Speaker 3: And that's what hooked a law people because of the
Speaker 3: incredible casting of these old teen actors and kind of
Speaker 3: in this metaspace of them being adults and dealing with
Speaker 3: the trauma of being kids.
Speaker 2: But that's not I do think that. I do think
Speaker 2: that when to me, when a show is giving you
Speaker 2: mystery after mystery after mystery, the feeling that I get,
Speaker 2: and you tell me what the feeling it gives you,
Speaker 2: is the feeling I get is like they don't know.
Speaker 1: They don't know where we're going.
Speaker 2: That is that concerns me.
Speaker 3: That's my biggest fear with any show that I love.
Speaker 3: I mean, we are obviously you mentioned you know, you
Speaker 3: and Mallory were right there in the trenches.
Speaker 1: During Game of Thrones, like you guys saw how that was.
Speaker 3: Those creators have talked about how they didn't know where
Speaker 3: the show was going to go. You know, we have
Speaker 3: dealt with that multiple times with people pitching for shows
Speaker 3: where they don't know the ending, massive shows that aren't
Speaker 3: supposed to last this long and streaming like Stranger Things,
Speaker 3: and you end up with five seasons and suddenly it's like.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, how do we finish this?
Speaker 3: That is my feeling I get with Yellowjackets. I get
Speaker 3: slightly reassured because I know that it was planned to
Speaker 3: be five seasons and I feel like if you had
Speaker 3: a plan, then maybe you at least.
Speaker 1: Know a little bit.
Speaker 3: But even Lost they didn't know where that was going
Speaker 3: to go at the end, And I think that that
Speaker 3: is a troublesome situation to be in because, as you
Speaker 3: pointed out, Jason, when we were just talking about this,
Speaker 3: like off Mike, Lost had like twenty episodes a season,
Speaker 3: twenty three twenty four episode seasons, Like, you're basically in
Speaker 3: a situation where you're spending so much time in this
Speaker 3: world that the mystery can become secondary. But if you're waiting,
Speaker 3: you know, two years between and then you're getting seven
Speaker 3: to nine episodes, it's a very different situation and you
Speaker 3: have to fit in a lot more and a lot
Speaker 3: more hooks, a lot more emotional investment in a much
Speaker 3: shorter time, let alone solving your overarching mystery.
Speaker 2: I completely agree, and this is my I want to
Speaker 2: be clear that I'm enjoying seven season two, and I
Speaker 2: thought season one was amazing, and I love the finale,
Speaker 2: But I think you've hit You've hit onto something, which
Speaker 2: is that I think you need to factor in the
Speaker 2: real world, Cadence. It's been two years since we saw
Speaker 2: Seven's one, right, seven season one, and that while it
Speaker 2: would make sense in the interior fictional chronological chronology, in
Speaker 2: the interior fictional chronology to like Cadence out the reveals
Speaker 2: at the pace that they're coming out. I also think
Speaker 2: that part of what's frustrating is when you're waiting two
Speaker 2: years for a show that you really are are hot for,
Speaker 2: it can feel like I really need something quicker, I
Speaker 2: need these answers faster. I think Yellowjacks is another version
Speaker 2: of that, in which there's less episodes. You feel like
Speaker 2: there is, you know, this various obstacles between you know
Speaker 2: that happened between seasons, and so give me, you know,
Speaker 2: give me more of the answers because we have less
Speaker 2: actual runway, whereas to your point and Lost, you can
Speaker 2: just kind of like be like, Okay, we're not gonna
Speaker 2: find that out, but like what are the what are
Speaker 2: the characters up to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And also as well, that's like the funniest thing
Speaker 3: about the you know, we talked about Riverdale. Riverdale's probably
Speaker 3: one of the last big genre shows we're gonna get
Speaker 3: that had like twenty two episodes a season, so you
Speaker 3: could set up these insane subplots about like evil D
Speaker 3: and D cults or characters becoming witches, real things that
Speaker 3: happen in Riverdale, while also kind of kind of pushing
Speaker 3: character forward, pushing plot forward, Like when you have that
Speaker 3: much time and your seasons are not so far apart
Speaker 3: because you're basically constantly in production, as was the case
Speaker 3: with most of those CUB shows, it's very it's a
Speaker 3: very different experience than I am covering Yellow Jackets at
Speaker 3: IGN and I covered it all last season with you
Speaker 3: on here and the IGN, and I was putting together
Speaker 3: a kind of updated.
Speaker 1: What do you need to know?
Speaker 3: Before season three, and I still had to go back
Speaker 3: and just rewatch the whole of season two, Like I
Speaker 3: was just like, you know what, I was like, I
Speaker 3: just have to rewatch it all because I'm going to
Speaker 3: miss something otherwise. And that was because even though this
Speaker 3: was a show I was heavily invested in, it has
Speaker 3: been two years since the show was lost on air,
Speaker 3: and in that two years we have all lived, you know,
Speaker 3: fifty years, so it's extremely hard to keep up with.
Speaker 3: But you know, this is just more of an interesting
Speaker 3: conversation than any kind of critique, because mystery box shows
Speaker 3: are also fun, you know, it's like.
Speaker 2: They're also fun, but when they hit, they really fun.
Speaker 2: When they hit their Yeah, when they hit it's that
Speaker 2: it's the kind of thing that you watch television four
Speaker 2: where you're like, oh my god, did you see that?
Speaker 2: Like what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1: Lightning in a Bottle? Which was the first season of Yellowjackets.
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping that this season ends up in a
Speaker 3: place where we are hooked again and we're checking back
Speaker 3: in and our discord's going crazy for it because I
Speaker 3: believe that the juice is there.
Speaker 1: I believe we've seen.
Speaker 3: That they have the juice, but the question is can
Speaker 3: they squeeze the juice out of season three?
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 2: So in the next few episodes of X ray Vision,
Speaker 2: we're diving into.
Speaker 1: Stuff, so many stuff.
Speaker 2: That's it for this episode. Thanks for listening. X ray
Speaker 2: Vision is hosted by Jason Concepts Young and Rosie Night
Speaker 2: and is a production of iHeart Podcast.
Speaker 3: Our executive producers are Joelmanek and Aaron Cortman.
Speaker 2: Our supervising producer is Abu Safar.
Speaker 3: Our producers are Common Laurent Dean Jonathan, and Bay Wag.
Speaker 2: A theme song is by Brian Vasquez, with alternate theme
Speaker 2: songs by Aaron Kaufman.
Speaker 3: Special thanks to Soul Rubin, Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman, and
Speaker 3: Heidi our discord moderator,