Where are the Hornets headed for their second season?

On March 24, the premiere of the first episode of the second season of the Hornets series took place. The complex and mysterious story of girls involved in a plane crash develops at the same leisurely pace.

What is the Hornets series about?

The events of the series unfold in two times. 1996, a plane with a team of high school football players crashes. The surviving girls, as well as the coach's assistant and coach's sons, try not to starve to death in the wild. The search team will discover them only a year later. So the heroes will have time to create many things that they will be ashamed of all their lives.

The other half of the series is set in 2021. Several survivors become victims of blackmail. The stranger claims to know their secret about being in the forest. The heroines team up to figure out the blackmailer. They grow closer and realize that neither of them has recovered from the events that occurred in 1996.

What is special about the Hornets?

"Hornets" is called a slowburner - as a rule, this term refers to horror films in which events develop slowly, and the oppressive atmosphere is more important than the final twist.

There aren't many unexpected plot twists. The viewer is constantly informed and hinted at about what happened in 1996. For example, from the very first episodes it is said that the surviving girls reached cannibalism when they had nothing to eat. But in the first season, the act of cannibalism itself is not shown - it was left for the second.

The Hornets looks like a hybrid from Lost and Euphoria, the movie Solstice and the book Lord of the Flies. Girls who find themselves in strange natural conditions swear non-stop because of the guys, start using pagan practices and fight for influence. Some viewers like mysterious mysteries, others focus on teenage relationships, others enjoy the horrors that happen to the characters.

What happens in the new season?

The main changes affected the timeline "our days". With the blackmail storyline ending in the first season, a new problem arises. New heroes are also being introduced, including grown-up survivors who were not shown in the first season.

But the plot of the timeline in which the disaster happened is much more consistent. Winter begins. Animals leave the territory where the heroes live, the threat of hunger becomes real. Girls pay more and more attention to communicating with spirits and strange rituals. These events are much more interesting to follow, but they are shown by the same 50% of screen time.

Will the second season be worse?

It is obvious that gradually the Hornets will become less of a teenage series. Some are dying, others are mothering - there is no time for gossip with girlfriends. But in the direction of a horror or psychological thriller, the series is moving too slowly, so the process of transformation may drag on for the entire second season.

Comparisons to "Lost" will haunt the Hornets to the very end - they have too much in common. It's not just about storylines (crash at an unknown point), secrets (something is wrong with the crash site). then) and several times (jumps between the past and the future) - it seems that the series have similar Problems.

Starting from the second season, "Lost" got too carried away with riddles and questions and spawned so many of them that he simply left a bunch unanswered. Given the pressure that the Hornets writers revel in, there is a fear that there will be many more questions than answers and even hints.

But if life is in place crash really interesting and frightening, then the “our days” timeline began to burst at the seams by the end of the first season. The mysterious blackmailer was calculated so ridiculously that it became unclear why he was brought in at all.

The second season without any problems starts a new story, which is in no way connected with the previous one. That is, in each season they will add a survivor and build a plot around her? And why exactly in 2021 did events begin to spin? The series has already been extended to the third season, and the authors set a goal of five seasons - it is likely that not everyone will see the answers.

Who should watch?

If you're missing Lost stories, then The Hornets is definitely worth checking out. It's not perfect, but it's a massive series with lots of mysteries. True, you have to prepare for a low pace - the plot develops very slowly. Fans of teen dramas in the spirit of "Euphoria" and "Riverdale"They will appreciate the first season, but teenage problems are gradually washed out of the Hornets, and the question of survival takes their place.