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TV: Yellowjackets 

Got sucked in, totally enjoyed. Scared to reflect on how the themes resonate with contemporary American society...pretty much tried to enjoy it only on a pulpy, artificial level. Some commentary:

1) One of the best criticisms of the show might be - it's porn for plus sized women.

2) Thoughts on the survival strategy for the stranded girls--

a) At the very least, they ought to be using smoke signals to signal their whereabouts. Someone ought to be manning a fire 24-7 making sure they can be found.

b) They should be organizing teams of 2-3 to survey and map out the landscape using rock markers

c) They should be using their geographical knowledge and resources within the plane to estimate where they actually are and how they might be able to find civilization.

d) Within the first 2 weeks, they needed to organize 1 or 2 "no return" missions to go get help. These missions should not have been "voluntary," but rather the 2-3 fittest, fastest, most-capable sent out to either follow a river or a direction.

e) They should make long spear weapons using the knife for the "no return" mission and they should've left the moment they killed an animal and were well supplied with food.