'Yellowjackets' Showrunners Spill All - Adam Was Almost Javi in the Future | Showrunners Sitdown
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- When “Yellowjackets” premiered on Showtime last fall, the show - about a girls’ soccer team trying to survive in the wilderness in 1996 after a plane crash, and the aftermath of that crash 25 years later - activated the internet in a specific and intense way. Theories on Reddit abounded, and since “Yellowjackets” had presented its high-school aged characters as cannibals in its pilot episode, nothing seemed off limits.
Variety Showrunners Sitdown with Kate Aurthur presented by FX
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the interviewer asked THE questions, she did her research so slay
i'm so happy they don't try to subvert fan's theories just out of spite and actually avoid reading about them. it makes me feel safe that they won't pull shit like the gossip girl or westworld writers did
Pretty Little Liars did that to their detriment…there’s so many incredibly smart theories that make so much sense online and even the actors thought certain characters could be the ‘big bad’ but it was so obvious the writers just wanted to pull one over on the viewer and it destroyed the show
I'm glad they verified that Adam is not Javi and that they wouldn't tease cannibalism for no reason. So excited for season 2!
We already knew Adam wasn't javi but he was suppose to be so people did get that right yet they changed their mind smh
@@samanthacampbell4087 he wasn't "supposed to be", they just considered it among other versions befire writing something else. And on reddit ppl were still theorizing that he's Javi. Even though it's obviously wrong. To me it's obvious. I think those theories made no sense at all. Shauna would have recognized him, but also the actor doesn't look the same ethnicity as Javi. You don't have to agree, but these theories were still ongoing until this interview
The only problem with Jackie Dead is how much we love Ella Purnell
“In middle age they’re feeling trapped and they’ve got an appetite for the freedom they experienced when they were suffering”. Damn. Tell me more about my life.
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Thank god they’re sticking to their “writer’s bubble” They are brilliant.
So crazy watching this back now we're 8/9 through S2, it looks like a lot of the plans changed since this discussion! So far we've not yet learned anything more about the cabin owner in S2, nor the man with no eyes (although he popped up once), nor the diaries.... so much suspense!
They're doing a very good job at both rewarding ardent fans and still surprising us. This is also one of the shows with the biggest rewatch value I've ever seen, and we've only had 2 seasons so far. The foreshadowing and constant recontextualization are amazing.
For so long, I really thought that Adam would be Javi. I’m so glad it didn’t turn out that way.
Me too, that would have been so dumb
Best show I’ve seen in AGES! I MUST give these guys credit they have done an amazing job so far. One thing that interested me was when they talked about how the adults long for the freedom that had out there and then I think of Lotties final line of season one….so do they long for the darkness? Hmm…
love that she mentioned Dark! such a wild show I think yellowjackets stands on it's own just as well
It’s one of the only intros I never skip
So ready for season 2. I haven’t been this excited about a show in a while
Agreed. Its awesome. The only thing is, based on my readinf of what happened in the first season and the trailer for the second season, I think I have a decent idea of whats going to happen, and I read they have a five season plan. If so, it seems like they are REALLY going to stretch things out. Particularly based on the season 2 trailer, it suggests the adult plot is going to move at a snails pace and though they may through in frurther misdirections (the whole blackmail plot basically set up the real threat of Lottie who killed Travis and kidnapped Nat) strecthing it out for five seasons seems like it will be an incredbile slog, especially given the production rate. My Understanding is the pilot was shot in 2019 but the first season was delyaed till 2021. I just saw it, but it but if the second season of ten episodes is going to run in march, this show wont wrap up till 2026. They could surprise me, but I think Ive figured out what basically happens from what we;ve seen so far. While I'm sure there will be misdirection and "filler", having that strectched out for four years seems way more then necessary.
ONE MORE DAY
Dark and The Sopranos, some of the greatest shows of all time, great inspirations and modeling
Yess, I immediately trust any show runner more when they mention the Sopranos as inspiration
Hell ya
Yellowjackets is such an amazing show, I love the universe they are creating.
such an underrated show
She Brough up Dark and I couldn't agree more thar show was great.
My goodness the opening credits are SO GOOD! Best ever! That song goes hard. So glad they didn't decide to skip that part.
Omg when they called out Dark I was like GIRL you know good tv yes mama🎉
I love this show, kudos to the writers-you have done an awesome job!
Excellent interview!
Adam being Javi was apparently a popular theory when the show was on (just binge watched over a few days) but really doesnt make much sense. I much prefer that its left at what it seems to be. He was just a regular guy who was a red herring in terms of seeming suspicious, and Shauna's paranoia cause her to kill a man she said was possibly the one. It speaks volumes about her character that she's rather non-chalant about it, and of course the disappearance will be a source of drama that will hang over the adult survivors. His lie about Pratt was explained and as far as not having an internet presence, some people just dont like to be on the internet.
The only thing I'm not clear on- were the at first missing journals in Shauna's safe initially a hallucination? Thats what I assumed but the Onion review said they were just back there later which I hadnt considered. If that's the case, did her husband borrow them as reference for the blackmail then return them once he had the money? When (if at all were we shown the journals being in the safe previously? If he had already read them years ago and sent out the postcards with the symbol, why would he need them for the final part of the blackmail? Is who took them and then replaced them supposed to be a mystery? If so I would guess Cassie (Shauna;s daughter) wanted to learn more about what happened to the YelllowJackets and her mom's relationship with Gracie. However at the time I thought them iniitally missing might have been a hallucination, as hallucinations and visions seem to lead these girls/women towards mistrust and acts of violence.
What did other people think? Were the initially missing journals a hallucination or did someone take them then put them back?
Also worth noting, while Adan isn't the blackmailer or Javi, we aren't yet sure that he's completely on the up and up. The newscast said friends and family were looking for him, but there still could have been more to his courtship of Shauna.
He wasn't Javi, but I don't think he was a random guy either. When (SPOILERS) Shauna kills him, there are tattoos on his body that match the symbols. For now, I think he might be been part of Lotties cult
I agree. I wouldn't want him to be Javi but I also wouldn't want him to be a nobody. He was a huge red herring, even the car accident seemed staged. Then the lies and the non social media present at his young age...
Such a good interview!!
Great interviewer and great answers
If Adam would have been Javi I think the show would’ve been way too dumb. There’s no way she wouldn’t have recognized him eventually by being in such close proximity.
The mystery box show that is perfect from start to finish is The Leftovers.
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Interesting watching this after S2. I love their approach to supernatural/not supernatural. It's very real, in that the supernatural in our world isn't dranatic like in movies, it's often much much more subtle, with possible explanations and strange coincidences just like in the show.
Great Questions
Great reference to the Leftovers in the "Guilty remaninant" comentary by the interviewer. 😂
great interview. Some of the questions were a little obnoxious though.
My one thing about the first season is that it seems like jackie died too soon. Sure, it was a major event for the end of the season. At the same time- it feels like she was such an intrigual paert of the show, especially in relation to Shauna who is arguably the mainest of main characters, it maybe felt a little anti-climatic to have her be the second person to die (after the plane crash and in such a stupid way, from exposure exarcebated by her not eating. I feel like there was more to her character and her relationship to the other girls, especially Shauna, but its hard to see how shes going to fit in to the rest of the show other then as a death looming over the survivors.
I was a little disappointed too but I do think there’s a point to it. It’s an escalation. We watched her slowly become ostracized in a way that echoes Ralph in Lord of the Flies, watched everyone slowly gang up on her as people do, and they didn’t literally kill her but they did in a way, since they forced her outside.
So basically to me it’s a stepping stone toward them ostracizing and then actually murdering someone. It shows them leaning in that direction
we didn't learn more about who lived in the cabin though
pov you're here after watching S2E1
We did not find out why jackies post-death entries exist.
They’re not going to definitively tell the viewers whether it’s mental illness or supernatural, based on their explanation.
es la mejor serie de entretenimiento inteligente y de calidad....actuaciones....elenco.....misterio....un premio before and after pandemia!!!...por los siglos de los siglos......2a temporada please!!!......y eso que tengo 49 años....wtf
"We know they eat a person". Hmm, you know, I wasn't convinced that they eat a person. It was alluded to, but everything shown could have been a deer or bear or something.
I mean we saw them kill, string up and bleed out a girl as one does big game, followed by them eating a whole bunch of meat. If they didn’t actually eat her that’d be a pretty cheap and disappointing misdirect
@@JC-yy8iv I'm probably the world's biggest skeptic, did we see them kill and bleed out pit girl? I am going to rewatch the whole series, I probably missed that couple of seconds when my dog was distracting me or something. Thanks!
@@thesonofdormammu5475yes, in the first episode
The blood dripping on the bear from Coach then is set on fire and blows up mid air? Seems like you can’t leave with someone’s bloody offering. It has to be your own.
So taissa sacrificed he little puppy to win a fucking election? That's what I got from this interview and the question about that.
I skip the beginning cuz I can't stand looking at flashes of light. I FF the beginning
Wendigo in the woods
The bear ate javi, it was able to be killed because it was full and tired
they would have found his left-overs inside. In no way he would have been digested so quickly.
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I'm glad they held their own and didn't answer all her questions. She seemed really entitled.
With the exception of long-hair-don't-care on the right of the couch, these guys are so awkward and uncharismatic lmao. It's amazing that they brought us one of the best, most diverse shows on TV right now. I'm glad they haven't gone out of their way to pander. I hope they don't also go out of their way to 'subvert expectations'
Old comment but ill just reply that uhh those are writers and they did okay. I dunno what you were expecting. Saying they were awkward and uncharismatic is unnecessary. With the whole plot in their heads I don't think they should speak more than is necessary because of spoilers duh