While I find Britney’s newfound freedoms deserved, are we possibly taking advantage at this point by offering her more ways to seek vengeance/retribution? Her family is definitely due being put in their place for years of abusing her name but maybe it’s best for her to fight the legal battle, she’s won the public…

She was severely overmedicated and cut off from managing her own social media for many years thanks to Jamie. She’s basically getting to be the teenager she was never allowed to be, and an adjusted medication regimen takes some time to settle. 

I almost died after watching Bring It On though. So it is possible.

Thank you for all of these thoughts.

I mean Lewis’ character has lived a life of substance disorder, makes sense for the character. I think Lewis is one stunning lady. I also think Ricci has had some very natural looking injectables and is glowing in her pregnancy.

This is such a good post. Your frazzled brain is impressive. I take your point about Melanie Lynskey’s physical looks and Adam. I do personally think that the show did present Adam as being extremely suspicious, and reading him as such wasn’t necessarily a dig at her (extremely beautiful) appearance.

Disagree. It was the perfect length, and your backstory only added to it.

yeah, I guess I meant skeptic in that she was still viewing things through the lens of an ordinary teenager. But makes more sense to just call her the tether to society and the past. On some level I think with Jackie stopping to eat and her avoiding survival skill learning, she knew they were never going back to their…

I don’t normally have the wherewithal to read long posts, but I read yours, and I’m glad that I did. 

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.

Hers and Laura Lee’s demises will prove crucial in hindsight.  LL was both a source of hope and optimism and dare I say strength, and she kept Lottie’s visions grounded.  Her absence deprived the group of all  those qualities, while Jackie, for all her seemingly shallowness and inability to adapt, and her throwing of…

Can we take a moment to talk about just how FUNNY this episode was, along with all mystery and trauma? Seriously there were lines in there that topped “Wait, Book Club isn’t real?” in their delivery. Like Misty saying “Who died?” when she comes in to clean up the dead body. Shauna saying “It’s just like riding a…

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

I feel like I’m the only one who actually likes Jackie, and thinks she’s sympathetic. Yeah she’s clearly not endearing herself to the other girls, but she just found out her best friend betrayed her trust and has been lying about it for months, even as they both face a cold, miserable death in the woods. Like, she…

I assume Jeff needed to review the journals in order to correctly draw the symbol that he texted to the others.

A few weeks back, I posted a screengrab of a diary entry from Jackie’s journal, that had a list of films including some released in 1997-2000, implying she made it out of the woods (another possibility being that perhaps Shauna made them out of some kind of ideation of what Jackie might have done had she lived). I…

I am bummed about where this show has gone — the first couple of episodes were STELLAR, and they seemed to be setting up a very dark show about the depths of where humanity can take you when in a desperate situation. A tale about a bunch of very TYPICAL teen girls who somehow, over 19 months, morph into feral cannibal…

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Which is a fair appraisal. Maybe it’s because I see a lot of Misty’s experience in my own upbringing (that scene where her face lights up when she gets a phone call...only to discover it’s a cruel prank...this happened to me) I hate to see her immediately cast as the sociopath of the group, when she just wants what so…

The Donner party is one of the most fascinating local legends. The story has gotten so inflated over the years. IIRC, another fatal error was refusing the Mormons' help and offers of shelter/supplies. They were just completely stupid all around.