I can’t wait for the post-credits scene where a pirate asks Guybrush about the Loom Initiative.

Maybe they’ll start making some LucasArts movies, like Monkey Island.

I’ve said before these SNL reviews are one of the first things I read on Sunday mornings, often before I’ve watched the episode. I’ve been worried they weren’t long for this world since word came out last December of what G / O was pulling...so this week’s news was expected but no less disappointing. I’m glad at least…

“Outstanding Performance on Effort” is a fine piece of understated comedy. 

Thank you for this post. Couple quick thoughts.. I thought Misty said “see you later, girls” as some sort of sarcastic remark to coworkers she knew didn’t like her? Maybe I’m wrong.

Also, the “Cult of Lottie” is giving me strong “Guilty Remnant” from “Leftovers” vibes.. survivors out for blood/revenge/something…

I’m on the other end - Jackie’s death is one of the more understated and affecting things I’ve ever witnessed on TV. She proves how stubborn she is and how unskilled she is (something that the coach lays out in the first episode: she’s not fast, etc.) - everything about the scene is absolutely pathetic. She’s trying…

Exactly. Jackie’s death was perfectly set up, the payoff to a whole season of her holding onto her pre-crash self/view of the world. This is actually why I could never understand all the theories of her being AQ, or her leading a rival tribe or whatever. Her main defining feature was that no one would ever look to her…

This turned out to be a pretty good new series. I thought it was overrated at first but these last four or five episodes were great. The writers know how to balance funny comedy and unsettling mystery/drama.

well put, I think that’s why Jackie’s death really was a gut punch. She was just a teenage girl doing teenage girl things, an innocence Nat had already been robbed of despite being the empath of the girls. Things are going to get really uncomfortable.

Yah I feel he’s just a very repressed teen boy, who even out in the wild, is completely rigid in his ability to emote and communicate. That’s just how insidious toxic masculinity is, and Nat is effectively the most mature/capable person out there but still is consumed with the responsibility of navigating some other…

agreed. Jackie was one of the few things keeping those girls from losing their humanity. Her death is going to have some major ramifications for the group.

Melanie Lynskey and Christina Ricci I feel like really excel at the breakneck changes in tone and the switches between drama and humor, or just the pitch black blending of them.

This review is ironically deeply unempathetic which fits considering this TV series is all about losing empathy.

Travis is pretty on-brand for a 90s troubled teenage guy. I don’t think he’s the “best” or “worst”, he’s an accurate portrayal of a dude from the era who’s not internally enlightened enough to know how to fix himself and doesn’t have outside sources guiding or forcing him to improve.

This episode wrecked me. I’m struggling to think of a death that has gotten to me like Jackie’s has. It was so sad, so lonely and devoid of purpose. It was the best bit of manipulation of audience expectation since Psycho. We expect Jackie to play in important role. She was going to be the Antler Queen. Or a leader of…

There is more to Adam. He is likely part of Lotte’s cult. He has the symbolic tattoo. He talks about taking Shauna to a cabin in the woods to meet his “friend”. The “loan sharks” are part of the cult and made Jeff give them copies of Shauna’s diaries. This led to them knowing the type of guy to send to seduce Shauna.…

I don’t even like Travis but I don’t think you’re being empathetic enough here. He was needlessly cruel to Natalie but he was clearly putting up a front to deal with the trauma of being sexually assaulted and almost killed and eaten. He’s not handling it well but would you?

I’m just going to take advantage of this article to share that Jasmin Savoy and Liv Hewson co-host a Netflix podcast called “The Gay Agenda.” So if you want more time with Taissa and Van, your wish is granted.