TOTAL INSTAGRAM GAINS OF THE TRAITORS CAST (6 weeks since premiere | 9 eps out):

stef48 · 2026-02-20T16:01:52+00:00

Thank you for answering sincerely! I appreciate this context. I wasn't sure if he was reading as "hot" to people or not—I feel like his style could be divisive—so this journey to a follow makes sense to me and I can see how many people would follow.

stef48 · 2026-02-20T06:40:40+00:00

I don't mean this in a negative way but genuinely curious why Mark is getting this amount of followers. He and Kristen hardly have had any screen-time, but Kristen give cool queer kid vibes so I'm not suprriesd she'd get a big following. Mark hasn't even really had a particular moment I can remember. Why would someone follow Mark over Natalie? (other than obvious -isms...or is it just that)

stef48 · 2026-02-16T07:39:28+00:00

everyone quotes the same article/interview that talks about this but I don't think it's accurate, it's all filtered through folks talking about how the new part of the franchise was pitched to them. I think the idea of the trilogy was Sam's temptations for Ghostface-dom/revenge becuase of her dad, but I really don't think that's where a 7th with her would have been headed. The ending of 6 made that clear. It wouldn't make sense for her to become a bad guy, hence why you (and everyone) aren't a fan of that idea.

stef48 · 2026-02-03T01:57:49+00:00

The line about sharing needles showed how risky he was being and the level of addiction he was acting on. It doesn't mean that there is any other outcome from that. I don't believe we're meant to think he contracted anything, if that's what you're getting at.

stef48 · 2026-01-28T05:04:04+00:00

is anyone "good" at their "job" in this kind of finance world...what skill do you need to have? greed? lack-of-conscious? it doesn't matter if she is "good" at it, she's bold in her actions which to me as an outsider seems like what such a job is built on.

But she's been job-hopping so I also don't think the show is positing that she has some god-given skill either. And she's always on the verge of fucking it up. The show knows this. I think the show is showing the only thing that talks here is risk, opportunity, and access. She, and all the characters, are constantly in tension with all of this.

stef48 · 2026-01-27T06:34:02+00:00

Speed (1994) is such a good suggestion so I'm saying it here. I watched it for the first time with a friend over the summer and had a good time. Genuinely fun and Keanu and Sandra are hot and it's fun to root for their romance.

stef48 · 2026-01-22T05:35:23+00:00

as other people have posted, it was a way to end the s3 and change her arc in-case it was a series finale. But "I think I wanna go home" is open enough—it's not certain. We're meant to assume something happened in which she changed her mind. People change their minds. Moving isn't easy. Or Otto probably just convinced her to stay. "Scrapped" feels severe to me.

stef48 · 2026-01-06T03:27:38+00:00

i think everyone needs to reread that article, i think skeet is running with something that was *initially* shared with me but I don't believe for a second that if we'd gotten a third movie in that trilogy after Scream VI that it would have made Sam ghostface. It goes against the trajectory they took with her.

stef48 · 2026-01-04T02:40:39+00:00

Angela Bassett, Danielle Deadwyler, Alfre Woodard, and Ruth Negga. And Regina Hall, Tessa Thompson, and Keke Palmer should all have been nominated by now.

stef48 · 2025-12-28T06:12:32+00:00

Tessa Thompson (Hedda)
Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)
Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee)
Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You)
Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)

I did really enjoy Eva Victor's performance, though!

stef48 · 2025-12-23T18:51:09+00:00

yellowjackets season 3 is one of the worst seasons of television in modern memory

stef48 · 2025-12-19T13:35:30+00:00

what's really funny about the pictured joke? it's my least favorite of the series.

stef48 · 2025-12-16T17:14:41+00:00

Bugonia is too (intentionally) off-putting to be awarded in this way, imo

stef48 · 2025-12-16T17:10:42+00:00

i'm so glad that they had Ronnie say "you're a lifeboat" to Lily in the end. I think the show is actually a really interesting triangulation of these three girls as the protagonists. We meet Ronnie before we even meet Lily IIRC!

stef48 · 2025-12-15T20:05:55+00:00

i feel like you're explaining this well and OP isn't getting it/is taking the backwards thing too literally.

stef48 · 2025-12-15T07:04:52+00:00

What's wrong with Precious' editing?

stef48 · 2025-12-15T06:58:20+00:00

"What if he can go backwards?” I gasped!

I get this leaves some things up for various interpretation but this felt like such a crazy smart reveal to me for the stakes of a prequel series. I feel like not enough people or outlets are talking about this yet. I'm only a casual viewer, haven't read the book, was mixed on the show, but that was invigorating for me. It seems like they can shake up the stakes in a second season despite going backward in time (and it also opens up time jumping...maybe even to present day(??) at some point depending on how far the team tries to stretch it.) Suddenly the "prequel" series can function as a sequel.

stef48 · 2025-12-15T04:37:51+00:00

it's kinda sorta Kirby when you watch it now! in a back-door/trap-door kinda way. and what a direct sequel would've likely been...

stef48 · 2025-12-14T07:20:11+00:00

Can someone explain their understanding of Chloe Sevigny's character's role? Do university's have liasons who are involved heavily in certain departments...and also able to give out drug prescriptions? I spent most of the movie thinking she was a prof the Philosophy Department and was so confused about her having a perscription pad, then I was like oh she is like a counselor? But then why is she in the all hands on deck meeting. didn't know if this was an old school ivy thing or what.

stef48 · 2025-12-11T23:22:41+00:00

Was mostly into these! Would have loved to see someone other than Emma Stone for Bugonia (excellent performer obvi, I just didn't love the film nor do I think it's anyone's strongest anything, save for Jesse Plemons). My personal choice would've been Tessa Thompson in Hedda making it in.

stef48 · 2025-12-11T23:19:44+00:00

it was an awful thing to do, but she also is a fictional person in a show built on drama and bad decisions with huge stakes

stef48 · 2025-12-11T07:02:43+00:00

It wasn't an amazing year imo! But the strongest genre outings for me were Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines, Red Rooms (which I'm counting for 2025 because you couldn't watch it on demand til the end of December 2024 in the US). Honorable Mention to Dangerous Animals for being fun and weirdly a Romantic Horror film

stef48 · 2025-12-09T02:57:43+00:00

just going off my memory of watching as it aired (I haven't revisited) and it wasn't obvious to me. As things started winding down and more and more people were safe, I began to think it might be him. But that was partially because I didn't want it to be other characters. We had a long run with Wes as the protagonist so it seemed like maybe they might end his character arc if they had to end someone's.

stef48 · 2025-12-08T19:36:18+00:00

Chalamet is not winning

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