It doesn’t help that the behavior of the teenage Shauna is, at this point, equally preposterous. The Sophies, Nélisse and Thatcher, have both become masters of emulating their adult counterparts’ speech patterns, and in this episode it’s especially noticeable how good they’ve gotten. Perhaps for the first time since the very first episodes, young Shauna and Natalie feel, or at least sound, of a piece with their adult selves.
But only sonically. Truth be told, young Shauna’s turn to the dark side, which in practical terms means behaving like an irrational paranoiac who makes life impossible for everyone around her, feels carelessly sketched out rather than built up. Other than that initial scene where she angrily writes in her diary, we’ve gotten nothing out of teen Shauna this season that justifies her new killcrazy ethos and her determination to stay in the woods even when rescue is at hand. That leaves Nélisse in the difficult position of glowering and barking orders and being obnoxious, because the writers think this makes her intimidating.
What it actually makes her is annoying. At least Lottie and Taissa, the other girls who try to stay behind when everyone gets ready to follow their captives Kodi and Hannah to safety, have been established as being deeply mentally ill. What’s Shauna’s excuse for not only staying behind, but ordering the rest of the group to ditch the escape attempt entirely? Get out of everyone’s way, you underwritten asshole! If I were Natalie or Travis I’d have shot her a long time ago.
I reviews this week’s Yellowjackets for Pop Heist.
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