LostInStatic t1_jdz4v4u wrote on March 28, 2023 at 6:47 AM

Reply to comment by Dye_Harder in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2 Premiere Draws Nearly 2M Viewers, Breaks Showtime Streaming Record by MarvelsGrantMan136

The tension is kind of lost when they don't define how many survivors there actually are and if most of the narrative engine driving the flashbacks is "Who will die?" it loses meaning if we can just pull new people out of thin air.

APDLS t1_jdzbic8 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 8:23 AM

We do have numbers though, 15 on the team of which 13 are currently accounted for.

preppytarg t1_jdzxfcz wrote on March 28, 2023 at 12:45 PM

Season 1 was shot during the height of Covid restrictions. That, plus budgetary issues, I think led them to doing a LOST trick where they just focused on the principal cast, and occasionally had background extras moping around.

I remember there were scenes where it was supposed to be the entire group, and you only saw principals with no background actors at all. That was definitely a Covid thing.