"Yellowjackets" Bear Down (TV Episode 2021) Poster

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6/10
Stretching it out
mycannonball15 January 2022
I like the premise. I really like some the characters, but I feel like the content/story isn't enough for 10 episodes. It feels like it's being stretched to serve the time. Perhaps a 6 or 7 episode series would have been better.
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8/10
[7.6] Fairly enjoyable
cjonesas18 January 2022
Episode 4: A much more satisfying episode with the usual dragging, but with far better acting. Of course, the arc(s), especially present time events, are not super interesting and that already showed in the pilot and continued after that.

It doesn't have a purpose in sight, four episodes in, but it's fairly enjoyable. As I said before in my reviews of the episodes, mixing past and present in three different timelines is a bit too much and makes a muddy recipe as the results.
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7/10
Always love the one that hurt ya, hurt ya....
slak96u1 April 2022
Sophie Thatchers voice, its uncanny how similar it is to Juliet Lewis'. Was great to get some backstory on Natalie.

Again, a middling episode, character and world building. Reminiscent of something like a team building exercise. It was honestly a bit corny, but whatever, not a bad episode. Shauna is really, really into roll play now, thanks Jeff. Misty is a citizen detective and she has your back. Liked seeing Tiassa stand up for herself.
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Unbelievbly bad
dusadomovine6 December 2021
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The Millennials criticize the dead guy from the cabin for being a "prepper" but are happy to have his gun and lots of bullets. These character are all unbelievable dumb and self-obsessed. I love watching them suffer. The only way this crapshow is bearable is by fast forwarding through all the stuff that does not happen at the crash site.
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7/10
Bear Down
bobcobb30125 February 2022
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Natalie in both timelines is just annoying and this could be a long-term problem for the series.

I am still intrigued, but she just brings down the mood so much.
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5/10
Starting to drag
guppie23357 December 2021
This shows first two episodes left me extremely satisfied and begging for more. These last two episodes have me feeling the exact opposite. While the flashback crash site scenes are still holding steady and interesting enough, the current time scenes are completely burning out. There are extreme pace issues and the plot has already thinned out quite a bit.
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1/10
Nope
craigysyndrome21 January 2022
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I was enjoying this until the moment where they found the other aircraft and they started up the engine and the plane moved forward with a propeller moving towards one of the characters just standing there, not ducking left or right, or dropping and ducking underneithe, but just standing there watching a moving propeller coming towards her and not doing anything while having a few seconds to get out of the way.

I couldn't watch after this as the writters are asking me to be a braindead moron at this point.
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3/10
Stagnant Episode
mattoid-456057 December 2021
This show so far is ok I guess. My wife and I are on the fence about moving forward with it. Speaking of moving forward, this episode went no where. Some incidents happened that went towards character development but nothing really groundbreaking. I am asking myself one question. What does the auto dude see in what's her name? I think he's a reporter or cop or something. Probably just me.
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5/10
Let's get a move on
TheStorytellingCritic11 February 2022
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It's weird, last ep the only thing I could write about Shauna is that her narrative involved tailing her potentially cheating husband and then cheating herself, but it was in this episode that she may actually have the most interesting arc in the show so far. As a kid, always putting others before her, trying to please but as an adult killing rabbits mercilessly and playing golf to a point where there's potentially harming citizens of the public. This gap between her teen years and adult years is explicitly shown in this ep as she takes on bleeding out the deer - eerily slowly I might add; makes me think is she capable of doing so to a human?

That all being said, this episode is more focused on Natalie and her upbringing, having an abusive father and having witnessed a violent death before the crash. The narrative of teen Natalie was intriguing but leaves questions to be asked on how does she know how to use a gun, does she use it after the fathers death and before the crash? IT also focusses on her dynamic with Travis as this story runs parallel to present day Natalie investigating Travis's death. This was okay. Again, present day Natalie's performance was lacklustre whilst teenage Travis was in your face annoying.

It's Misty that's the tough one to decipher, she clearly loves being the nurse, (she does end up being a nurse in present day), but she seems to create situations for her to be the nurse in, or just to be involved in generally: tripping up the coach, pulling out wires from Natalie's car. She wants, and seems, to need the praise and attention so she can show her usefulness.

Talking about present day, it was nice saying Jackie, even though she was a teenager, it shows that no matter what happened to Jackie after the crash, (Presume she's gone as she hasn't been seen in present day) she still lives in our character's minds making them feel guilty I presume.

Overall, this episode was decent, everyone's arc was average, nothing crazy happens and Taissa's present-day arc bores me.

P. S. "Sammy Sammy Sammy" laying in the cupboard wasn't creepy as much as it was hilarious. I physically chuckled. I just don't think they're handling the horror aspect of this in a horror way.
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3/10
Bad
pm-9800210 January 2022
Some of acting is atrocious. Courtney Eaton's Australian accent is so obvious. When she wakes at 3 minutes into the episode she says "bad things happened here" in a super Aussie accent. Not to mention she's 26 in real life yet playing a 16 year old - same with most of the cast. Just NO.
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