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I don't give a red hot shit about how I look, okay? Jack Champion as Derrick Smart in Everything's Going To Be Great (2025) | written by Steven Rogers & directed by Jon S. Baird

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It felt like they liked it. It was some kind of...ritual. Madelaine Petsch as Maya Lucas in The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) | written by Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland & directed by Renny Harlin

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now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

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He's sweet enough to put him on your tongue. Benson Boone in "Mr Electric Blue" Official Music Video (2025)

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I just...don't really care what other people think, unlike some people. Vincent Muller as Ruston "Rust" Vance in Clown In A Cornfield (2025) | written by Carter Blanchard & Eli Craig & directed by Eli Craig

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I believe wholeheartedly that every adult involved with that HBO Harry Potter series should be bullied, blocked and shamed for participating in and ultimately profiting off a franchise who's creator funnels profits from said franchise into actively making trans people suffer. jk Rowling has said PUBLICLY that she invests the money she makes from her work into lobbying for anti-trans legislation and platforming transphobes. any adult willfully associating themselves with that deserves to be shamed for it. fuck Nick Frost, fuck Paapa Essiedu, fuck John Lithgow, and fuck Johnny Flynn. No adult choosing to associate with JK Rowling in any way can claim with any seriousness to care about trans people. Shame on every single one of them. The same goes for any adult "fans" who promote or engage with the series in any way that isn't actively condemning it.

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Oh, this movie was terrible...

-For anyone curious about the perspective of anyone who's read the book, this quite literally does not function as an "adaptation" in any conceivable way & I have no idea why they lifted the title of the book to make this when they are completely different stories. Even for all of the numerous liberties the trilogy took with the book series, & believe me there were many, they still included some. things fans of the books would recognize. The full extent of a comparison between the source material & this is A) There being a prom & B) Prom queen candidates dying. Everything else was Generic 1980s Nostalgia Slasher Bait™ & I am beyond sick & tired of having to regularly be exposed to 80s nostalgia when roughly 85-90% of these books released in the fucking 90s.

-Knew Tiffany Falconer was gonna be both a huge asshole AND. my favorite character in the whole of this. Genuinely think the plot could've/should've been reorganized to centralize her cause she had the most dynamic material to invest in. There were a few side characters/supporting actors who felt like they also understood the ~type~ of movie this was, but Fina Strazza ran A W A Y with this. She's a star, your honor. The "main" characters this clumsily manufactured for us to follow were boring, annoying, rife with cliches from more unimaginative YA character creation formulas, &, worst of all, queerbaiting audiences with clear attributes like their "friendship"/styling/attending the prom together/etc. Like, we can not go about playing THESE. games with not giving us a SINGLE lesbian or gay in an installment atp when the trilogy was entirely driven BY lesbians. The books might very well largely be a heterosexual function, but when this nearly had no resemblance TO. the book, this element is absolutely ridiculous.

-Really the only noteworthy aspect to this warranting a single watch is for the violence/kills, if that's your thing. There were a lot of practical effects & most of them were extremely impressive considering how much Netflix tends to indulge in heaps of visual effects instead. I was genuinely surprised how violent this got with some of the kills considering how deficient this was in many other areas I was watching this for. It doesn't make up for how much of a mess this was & how any other future Fear Street "adaptations but not really" likely will be, but it's something!

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There's two types of people in the world. Those who hit the brakes...and those who hit the gas. Michael Cimino as Zac Torres in Motorheads (2025-?)

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If you make a fool of me...this will be the end of you. Fina Strazza as Tiffany Falconer in Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025) | written by Matt Palmer & Donald McLeary & directed by Matt Palmer

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Do you think this is some kind of karma for what we did? I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) | written by Jeff Howard, Sam Lansky, Leah McKendrick, & Jennifer Kaytin Robinson & directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

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We are gonna be the best uncles ever. Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in The Fantastic Four: The First Steps (2025) | written by Peter Cameron, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, Eric Pearson, & Ian Springer & directed by Matt Shakman

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WVERYONE GET UP

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The more I've ruminated on it, I have a potentially interesting interpretation of the Lottie/Callie finale interaction.

Now, I think this theory is only going to appeal to anyone who ever faintly accepted the existence of ~supernatural influence~ in the series (I contend that there is influence, but also believe anything supernatural is highly dependent upon anyone who's influenced taking action themselves, i.e. Lottie axing Edwin on her own) & I have no way of knowing if someone else has expressed something similar, but it is. something that had jumped out to me since this element was introduced. I would have to go back through the season to pay attention to each instance of this, but the riff on the Rosemary's Baby score is basically Shauna's Motif™ this season. What I think that's meant to signify to us is that Callie has been Wilderness Antichrist™ (aka: the actual Antler Queen) all along & that everything revolving around Shauna "getting power/being evil" is a distraction from this inevitable reveal. I obviously don't have to say that "Shauna's court" at the end of the season does not seem particularly supportive of her actions, but Callie is constantly held at a distance from the rest of the story while swooping back in at the last second to be an integral part of it at the same time & her being one of the few of the adult timeline to actively end another character's life can't be a coincidence.

While it's easy to write it off as Antler Queen just. being Shauna with us coming "full circle" to the "pit girl" scene, I don't think it's as simple as that if ANY.thing that has ever happened with Lottie is meant to be taken seriously (because as controversial as many of the adult deaths have been handled, they each carry with them an intentionality that can't be ignored either). It's why Lottie takes ownership of Callie as a parent in her death scene because, much like in Rosemary's Baby, the husband (Guy/Jeff) is a "dummy father" while Lottie, like the Castevets, is convening with a power beyond comprehension (the devil/the wilderness) to give the mother (Rosemary/Shauna) the baby she's always wanted for the sacrifice of the child she would've originally had. This especially gains resonance to me in the context of Rosemary being told that ~her baby died in childbirth~ at the end of the book/movie before the audience is given The Big Reveal™ about what's been going on all along, which leads me to believe that the writers have been trying to subtly communicate this concept to us with the division between wilderness baby & Callie (wilderness baby was conceived before Shauna had been ~influenced~ by the wilderness & Callie after the wilderness was already ~inside her~).

This is the most charitable interpretation I could possibly have of Lottie’s death (since ~pushed down stairs~ is still such an anticlimactic way to go & always will be) because it would indicate that EVERY.thing she had ever worked toward to communicate with ~the wilderness~ & "give it what it wants" would've been fulfilled in the moment of her death. The times where she lost contact with "it," wanted to be chosen by "it," doubted that "it" existed when she had no one else, etc. all came to fruition when she saw the power within Callie & was felled by her hand (which, if this theory turns out to be true, is more of a unique narrative turn than the frequency we see in media where ~believers in something incomprehensible are punished by that very thing/not ready to die when it kills them~ by having her welcoming it). The ~euphoria~ on her face in reaction to being pushed down the stairs/chosen by "it"/getting to fully embrace the wilderness is the only way The Prophet could've died in a way that makes sense to me. It doesn't diminish the unfulfilling quality of The Stairs™ themselves, but the access we were given to Lottie in the finale & things that were vocalized vs what wasn't has not stopped swirling around in my brain in the context of the underlying Rosemary's Baby influence within the season.

Even if this theory might be a little difficult to digest for some, because the very idea of calling Callie Wilderness Antichrist™ does admittedly sound ridiculous by itself, I can't stop thinking about the possibility & where the series intends to go with her as a character since there are obviously Big Plans (plus, I just think it would be cool that we would have a female character positioned as an "antichrist-like figure" for once since that tends to go to male ones). We've all seen that Callie has the same capacity for darkness & violence as Shauna, if not more so, but it comes from a completely different place than what drives her mother. Shauna's violence is ALL. ego driven &, as we've seen from Lottie saying, "She can't love you...cause she's jealous" & "You're just like her...but more," Callie's is from a lack. of ego. Even after EVERY.thing that has happened throughout this season & her fleeing home with her father, she still wants that love from & connection to her mother specifically & I know it will continue to crop up in S4 when we pick back up with her & Jeff. As positively as some have read Jeff trying to console Callie & taking her away from Shauna, I only have a feeling of dread (& excitement at the prospect of more bloodshed) because I know Callie not being in close proximity with her mother, the person who matters the most to her, will only open up a well of untold violence for her in S4 when she is forced to play the same ~unassuming happy family~ game like Shauna bristled at playing until she kills again (& I would not remotely be surprised if Callie is the one who ends up killing Jeff by the end of the season cause there is no way she's going to acclimate to this change well).

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Forgiveness is part of my job description. Mark O'Brien as Mason Harper in Shadow Of God (2025) | written by Tim Cairo & directed by Michael Peterson

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I am having Shauna thoughts.

I am a Shauna lover. She is the moment. She makes the show more interesting. She introduces conflict and helps push the show away from a survival story into something that keeps me on the edge of my seat.

I love Shauna not because I think she is rational or doing the right thing but because she makes good tv. I love seeing complicated women doing terrible things. Some of my favorite shows are killing eve, and crazy ex girlfriend lol. I love a story watching someone kinda lose it.

So Shauna is exactly my cup of tea. You can see why she has gone off the deep end. She crashed in a plane in the wilderness. She was given a brutal and scarring role early on. She attempted an abortion in the woods. She got mad at her best friend and then she died. She ate her best friend. She lost her baby. She cut up a kid. You can see all these terrible things she experienced, but that doesn’t excuse it. Hurt people hurt people and whatever but that does not make it okay.

In real life obviously I would not want to be friends with Shauna. Duh. But do I love her as a character?? Yes. You know in a show about a group of people in the face of a terrible situation I am glad they don’t all handle it well. That would be boring. I need a pot stirrer.

And all of this is without even touching the adult timeline. I have loved this season watching young Shauna get worse and then thinking back to the things adult Shauna has done in a different context. It’s added complexity to season 1 and 2 adult Shauna and I need to go back and rewatch now.

I love Shauna not because she is a good person or because she doesn’t nothing wrong or because she is justified but bc she is a mess and it’s entertaining. I love her and she is an icon.

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YELLOWJACKETS S3E10 // S1E1

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I can't believe we're probably gonna have to wait another 2 years for more episodes.

-Everything I was saying the whole season about Shauna driving everybody away & isolating herself coming to fruition & this food is SO fucking delicious! Even as much of a fan & enabler of her as I am, we have GOT to address how Shauna was getting WHACKED harder the whole of this finale than the verbal lashings Melissa gave her back in her kitchen. From Jeff & Callie abandoning her to Tai's "Just don't." + "It's Shauna's fault that Van is dead. Really, it's her fault that Natalie is dead too," to Misty's "The shock of you taking responsibility for your actions just might give you a stroke" + "She was desperate for someone to talk to :(...you were busy eating your ex-girlfriend's arm, soooo :/" to everyone agreeing to the hunt to fool her to Travis directly. throwing Jackie back in her face to Melissa LITERALLY whacking her in the face with that fuckin log, this is the most we have seen the writers pile onto Shauna at one time that I just HAD. to laugh my ass off something else happened because not a bit of it is registering to her like it should. As much as I can either ferociously enjoy the violence she indulges in or be frustrated with her actions on behalf of other characters I love, she was sooooooo hard to take seriously this finale, particularly with her present day monologue in mind. Like, it is honest to god embarrassing when every currently surviving member of the YJs has shown a capability & means for violence, ESPECIALLY now that Van is dead giving Tai & Misty a reason to take up arms against her while Melissa is fucked off to wherever. Despite E V E R Y T H I N G we have seen her do & what she is capable of, Shauna thinking that she's gonna ~start taking it back~ after blowing up her whole life in the context of EVERYTHING. else this season & this finale is so utterly ridiculous that the only thing you can. do is laugh. The fact she is out here like, "Yes, baby, I was THE QUEEN!" in the same breath that we're getting to see that Antler Queen™ was literally JUST. the rest of the characters going, "We are doing this to placate you, you deranged animal, because you are so self-involved & transparent that we knew nothing else would work than manipulating you in this obvious way," is the worst possible thing (positive) these writers could've done to Shauna's character because it is such a slap to the face & she has succumbed so completely to her own ego that she does not see it I just fdjkshjdfskdsfj. Absolutely phenomenal work by Sophie Nélisse & Melanie Lynskey once again, though. We better be seeing some award recognition after how much work they have put into this disaster bisexual terrorist dictator from hell.

-On the directly opposite end of the spectrum, I'm sorry, but YES, Lottie's death was straight up doodoo bullshit. I have tried to keep an open-mind the whole of the season when she just died offscreen & they made her death this Big Mystery To Solve™, but that was the most unsatisfying way they could've gone about resolving it after all was said & done. I'm glad that it was like, actually. somebody who killed her (because, despite what Callie says, no, that was NOT an accident just like none of her mother's acts of violence aren't) instead of the writing's frequent tendency of, "They tripped on a necklace & fell into a meat grinder," that so many of the adult deaths give off, but the handling (or lack thereof) of Lottie is gonna leave a bitter taste in my mouth whenever I think about this season (& I say that as somebody who did not. hate the season as a whole). I was always on Simone's side on this issue when she publicly expressed her grievances, but I am even more so after that "lol whatever" ass death. Even though anybody with eyes knew Callie was gonna kill SOMEone this season & many of us suspected she was the culprit behind Lottie, this is just such an, "Okay...?" moment that it's difficult to understand why they even spent all this time circling around the issue beyond just killing her off to give Callie development. Like, Callie, keep telling yourself whatever, girl, but, "You're just like her...but more," is the exact. reason why your mom doesn't love you. I don't think Lottie was 100% on the money with classifying it as "jealousy" (she is partially correct, there's just more) because Shauna already does not love herself. so why would she love a daughter that was exactly like her? Literally all that can really be said about Lottie's death cause Jeff is repeating the same patterns with Shauna by telling Callie everything's fine+going into hiding & it's not gonna end well.

-With that being said, I do think this episode has concretely confirmed people's suspicions that we'll be seeing something like ~another reality~ with the dead characters when the series ends. I'm not sure if/how the writers will be able to convince much of the adult cast to return if they already aren't fond of the trajectories that their characters have gone on, but stuff like Lottie in the morgue with her younger self going to "meet her," her conversation with Callie, & telling Mari, "You see where we are? We've been here already, Mari. You could let it be different," right before she dies does feel a little too intentional to ignore. As much as I am decidedly not. a fan of how Lottie actually died, the way she seems to drift seamlessly through timelines in her visions as a ~physical presence~ in these realities indicates she knew that A) Callie is meant to be the actual. Antler Queen™ while her mother was just the "pretender to the throne," as it were, all along, B) She was supposed to die on those stairs & egged Callie on with the express purpose of getting her to kill her, & C) She had likely already had a vision of Mari's death (& no doubt others) & was trying to encourage her to change it (which, obviously, was not gonna work with how much Mari had turned against Lottie recently). So, even if I technically should. take more issue with this "resolution" we have been given with Lottie's fate, this episode did end up giving me so many juicy insights into both her character & the supernatural element that there's nuance to my thoughts.

-Even though I knew it was coming & expressed those thoughts during the premiere because it was too obvious to not. be the case, Mari being "pit girl" has done such irreparable, untold damage to me as somebody who loved her & her hater isms dearly. As much as I contend what I said earlier in the season that there was NOBODY. else actually deserving of the HONOR to actually be "pit girl" than her, I am gonna desperately miss seeing Alexa Barajas on our screens moving forward & how lovable she made Mari despite her stubbornly hating so many things. I think this season did a wonderful job of expanding her depth, getting us to see more involvement from her with the group, & once again, honoring her in the moment of her death with characters expressing sadness or regret or their attempts to intervene (Gen's "Mari's my friend. I'm just trying to give her a fighting chance," hit me the hardest by far</3). She went out being the iconic bad bitch we knew her to be getting some of the most apt lines of her tenure on the show by telling Shauna, "You deserve everything that's coming to you!" in the same episode Shauna's entire being is in free fall & giving Lottie her final, "My god, fuck AWF!" Fly high, Hater Supreme Mari Ibarra™. We lost a real one today!

-I'm kinda disappointed that Tai & Van rigging the card draws immediately. backfired like this cause it feels like such a wasted opportunity to explore & exploit the idea that Van ended up being ~punished by the wilderness~ for stacking the deck & giving the both of them more time. This could very well still be something S4 expands upon before they're rescued, but I don't think it'll have the same zest as everybody theorizing that they'd rig the draws for seasons now that it's blown up so spectacularly like this. While it DOES make for good writing that Shauna was the one to notice & try to circumvent it since she is. driven by paranoia & would naturally suspect something was up, not to mention how the episode mirrored the burgeoning conflict between her & Tai in the past & present, this really kneecapped a potentially engaging conflict before it even got started. The hard line in the sand drawn between Tai & Shauna is the most exciting thing to come out of this specific plotline for me cause it directly addresses many people's concerns asking, "What happened to Tai & Shauna's close relationship?" by showcasing that that relationship had been dead for a LONG time & was only reinforced by everybody deciding to "keep the past in the past [to] protect one another." But now that Van is dead & Tawny gave one of THEE. performances of the episode with burying Van & eating her heart, all bets are off & I am so fucking excited to see what she gets to do next season after all this! Even though I initially thought everyone was gonna be gunning for Melissa, it makes so much more sense that everyone is like, "Actually, no, Shauna is & always HAS. been the problem, & she's ruined everything again. Fuck her."

-God, I will never stop mourning the loss of Natalie as THEE. character death that impacted me the most. Like I said last week, after the way things have gone with her in the past timeline, there is no way anybody will ever be able to convince me that the writers intended for her to go like she did cause it feels so obvious that she was being positioned as the opposition against Shauna in the present from how much they've butted heads in the wilderness & this finale just made that even clearer. Even if she technically was not as present as most of the other characters, her crash-out over the transponder, having to keep up appearances on the surface, & convincing the saner members of the group to help her pull off the farcical hunt for Shauna's ego/the switcheroo for her to slip away underlines what we've always known: she always has. been & always will. be THE. leader. Regardless of what Shauna has done to wrestle control from her & weaponize anger to her advantage, this is one of Natalie's most triumphant moments as a character, reflected in how Tai & Misty are paying tribute to her in their present conspiring against Shauna, & it is g l o r i o u s to watch. My girl has gone through it the whole fuckin season & I know there will be worse things to come for her when S4 picks back up unless she manages to evade Shauna's Wrath™ by being a better hunter, but she fr is about to get everyone rescued by being the strategist of the group & I couldn't be more satisfied with how her arc has concluded this season.