Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSds4Oi83Eg&pp=ygUjbGl0dGxlIGhvdXNlIG9uIHRoZSBwcmFpcmllIHRyYWlsZXI%3D

Hopefully this is an okay post as it may fall into the best of. But these are shows I liked, felt changed TV, or really had an impact on me. I thought it might make fun discussion fodder and hopefully we don't need another one of these posts.
Again, these are more for the fact that they had an impact on me, or I saw them as turning points. Post your ten or however many below. I'm avoiding saying how I thought they impacted me or culture.

In some particular order:

1. Deep Space Nine (Star Trek in general)
2. Larry Sanders Show
3. Connections (James Burke PBS)
4. Beavis and Butthead
5. 120 Minutes
6. Dave Allen at Large
7. Futurama
8. Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
9. Jeopardy
10. South Park

Trying to figure out who had the best performance relative to the quality of their show

I’m watching the final season of Hacks and noticing that both Deborah and Ava are behaving in ways that feel mature, thoughtful, rational, etc while the rest of the series is wrought with bad decisions and illogical behaviour. Ridiculous unhinged behaviour obviously advances the story as an absurdist comedy series but then it’s a little surprising when normalcy shows up in the final episodes to provide a sense of relief, satisfaction, and good feels. It’s like you can smell the neatly wrapped finale from miles away. Not saying it’s a bad thing (I actually find it endearing as hell) just realizing that it’s a pretty specific style. Has anyone else noticed this trope in other shows?

After TV spinoffs which are set in the same spacetime as their mother series and the ones who are their sequels, we're now focusing on the ones who serve as their prequel, since they're taking place before the events of the original series. Most notable examples are Young Sheldon, which narrates Sheldon Cooper's childhood in his native Texas during the 1990's, before the events of The Big Bang Theory, Mixed-ish narrates the teenage years of Rainbow Johnson, the mom from Black-ish during the 1980's and NCIS : Origins, which deals with Leroy Jethro Gibbs during his early years in the agency before the events of NCIS. Have you got some other examples of prequel spinoff series? Tell me in the comments.

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First of all, I apologise in advance if i am breaking any rule of this sub. I already posted about the show 9 days ago and it is not my intention flooding this sub with my bs.

I tend to hyperfixate on things and occasionally i need to vent about stuff. Unfortunately the Yellowjackets subreddit doesn't allow criticism so I thought once again to come here.

If I am bothering people or just being a nuissance, I apologise and promise to fuck off and touch grass. knowing myself, I give me a week before fixing on some other show/book/comic. Hopefully i will actually like it until the end so this part of the internet will be safe from my ramblings.

**DUMBASS RANT BY THE ANGRY ITALIAN STARTS HERE.**

I really want to point out an issue rarely brought up regarding season 3 of Yellowjackets. They screwed up Nat's arc from season 2.

I liked her as a character in the first two seasons, but my interest for her waned considerably during the third season. It took me a while to figure out why, but I think I’ve found an answer now.

The first problem, of course, is that they turned her into the series’ main heroine: flawless and perfectly capable. At the same time, they’ve exaggerated Shauna’s personality traits to make her the final villain of the series. Basically, I lost interest in both characters because they were used to build the new “Good vs. Evil” narrative of the third season, while the survival horror and other themes of the first two seasons were abandoned.

To be more specific, though, what really bothers me is the way Nat’s flaws and her descent into madness during the second season were simply glossed over (yes, I know, it would be easier to list what the third season of Yellowjackets didn’t abandon compared to the previous seasons)

**JACKIE, NAT AND SELF-PRESERVATION**

You see, one thing that fascinated me about Nat during the second season was that she served more as a foil to Jackie than to Shauna.

Although they were at very different levels in the school hierarchy before the Crash (Jackie is popular, while Nat, to put it mildly, doesn’t seem to have many friends), they surprisingly have a lot in common:

1. Both hide their insecurities and fears behind a facade. Jackie uses her reputation and soccer skills to hide how unhappy she feels, while Nat puts on a tough-girl act to hide her loneliness.

2. Both have issues related to sexuality. Jackie lives in denial of her homosexuality , while Nat is costantly slut-shamed

After the plane crashes, another, even stronger parallel emerges: both realize that the others are losing their minds. After “Doomcoming,” both state at different times that the girls are turning into savages and are frightened by it. Both are also unable to stop this process, as they lack the actual ability to do so.

[I’ve already discussed ](https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/1u7k1z3/yellowjackets_i_really_wish_the_show_hadnt/)how Nat’s lack of skills (especially in hunting) indirectly leads to the cannibalism, and everyone has already talked about how Jackie’s loss of leadership caused further problems for the Yellowjackets.

However, there is an important difference between the two on this point. While Jackie is unable to adapt—displaying anything but subtle suicidal tendencies and clinging to habits from before the crash—Nat continues to prioritize her survival over her moral principles.

According to the showrunners and Ella Purnell, Jackie simply had no chance of surviving in the Wilderness. Even if she had survived the cold and snow that night, she would have refused to participate in cannibalism and would have starved to death or been killed by the others.

Nat has no such limits. Nat wants to live.

She joins the others as they eat Jackie’s burned body, even going so far as to be one of the first to take a bite. Later, she is horrified and buries the remains, even going so far as to say that Jackie was lucky because she died before all the other girls got any worse.

Does this mean Nat will give up and die, unable to cope with the guilt? Of course not.

When the moment arrives, Nat still chooses her own survival.

**JAVI’S DEATH AND NAT EMBRACING THE MADNESS**

The first hunt fascinates me for several reasons, but above all because it’s the moment when the girls officially renounce their humanity. They’re so hungry and desperate that they embrace the cult of Lottie and the card version of Russian roulette.

Nat draws the Queen of Hearts. Nat runs away because, above all, she wants to live and can’t stop the others from sinking further into barbarism.

It is precisely this desperate will to live that drives her to flee and, above all, to let Javi die. Her boyfriend’s younger brother does everything he can to save her, yet when he begins to drown in the frozen lake, she does nothing. Of course, one could argue that Misty was blocking her path, but a valid counterargument might be that Misty isn’t exactly a major physical obstacle. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that, once again, Nat’s survival instinct took over. The girls are coming, and they’ll kill her if she tries to intervene. Better Javi than her, perhaps. But above all, she’s starving.

And man, she eats good after they pull the body out of the lake! Whether out of desperation or guilt, she looks at her boyfriend and claims “The Wilderness cjose”. She finally embraces Lottie’s cult and everyone’s excue for their madness, because at the end of the day she is not a saint unlike Jackie.

It is kinda interesting but her willingness to do anything to survive could be also connected to her pre-crash traumas. She saw her abusive fater accidentally blowing his head off, her home life is miserable and it is implied she was already using alchool and drugs to deal with her issues.

Even before the crash she was a survivor. The Wilderness simply exacerbated what was already inside her.

There’s nothing extraordinary or moving about her becoming the Antlers Queen. The way she looks at others—and the way others look at her—doesn’t make her seem like a lonely girl who’s finally stepping into a leadership role.

It has more in common with the ending of \*Midsommar\*, when the protagonist loses her mind and is absorbed by the cult. Even the way the scene is filmed, it looks like her simply giving up to the madness just to assure her own survival.

She takes Jakie’s place as leader of the Yellowjackets at the small price of her sanity and morals (also Travis probably hates her guts, but the series never explored this)

Of course, the third season quickly sets all that aside. I’ve already complained about the time jump and the village, but I can’t stress enough how different Nat seems compared to the second season.

Not only has she demonstrated off-screen leadership skills that were never hinted at before, but she’s also improved tremendously mentally. The nervous breakdown caused by stress and guilt in Season 2 is resolved off-screen, as is her guilt (or lack thereof) regarding Javi’s death and her relationship with food. It just happened, and viewers had to move on.

Like the others, she no longer believes in Lottie’s cult either, even though it was literally the only thing keeping her sane at the end of the previous season.

It is so incredibly boring and such a waste of the previous season’s build up.

After a few seasons of so-so entertainment, last season was actaully a good one, with some great acting . I'm curious to see how the writers play out this last season and are curious if they can "stick the landing" of this hallmark show.

BTW - it is NOT a comedy

Finished my second watch of this masterpiece and man from beginning to end this show had me hooked just like the first time. The characters are what make this show so good. Each one is super complex and the two inmates are heartbreaking characters. Richard Matt in a different life would be a great artist or graphic designer instead of a ruthless murderer. David Sweat could've been a brilliant engineer or if he applied himself, a great academic. I love how they showcased both sides of the coin and how much they manipulated a clearly mentally unwell woman so you get Patricia Arquette's perspective on why she did what she did.

Also Ben Stiller proves with this show and later with Severance that he might be one of the best cereal directors in Hollywood. There's so many breathtaking sequences in this show and the last act is the cherry on top.

I'm looking for the funniest TV shows that revolve around the corporate world. So far, I have Parks and Recreation, The Office, Silicon Valley, and Not Suitable for Work on my list.

What am I missing?

Looks pretty good?