The following contains Yellowjackets season 2 episode 1 spoilers.
Showtime drama Yellowjackets is many things—a twisty survival thriller, a haunting (perhaps literally!) mystery, a chilling horror story, a tense exploration of the long-tail effects of shared trauma—but at its heart, it’s a story about the complex emotional lives of teenage girls. Yes, the eponymous 1996 girls’ soccer team that finds themselves stranded in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash is forced to make some dark choices in order to survive, of a sort that tends to generate a lot of complicated fan theories about what’s happening to them and how the show’s dark hints of the cannibalism that ultimately took place are likely to play out. But Yellowjackets is at its best when it’s digging into the messy relationships between its central characters—both pre-and-post crash—as they blame, forgive, support, and rage at one another.
Showtime drama Yellowjackets is many things—a twisty survival thriller, a haunting (perhaps literally!) mystery, a chilling horror story, a tense exploration of the long-tail effects of shared trauma—but at its heart, it’s a story about the complex emotional lives of teenage girls. Yes, the eponymous 1996 girls’ soccer team that finds themselves stranded in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash is forced to make some dark choices in order to survive, of a sort that tends to generate a lot of complicated fan theories about what’s happening to them and how the show’s dark hints of the cannibalism that ultimately took place are likely to play out. But Yellowjackets is at its best when it’s digging into the messy relationships between its central characters—both pre-and-post crash—as they blame, forgive, support, and rage at one another.
- 3/27/2023
- by Lacy Baugher
- Den of Geek
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