Review: The Showtime drama offers a meaty platter of cannibalism, angst and trope-breaking. But whether the flavors are complementary remains to be seen.
“Yellowjackets” mercifully exited this mode to split into two timelines, one covering the aftermath of the crash and another following the survivors, now in their 40s, in the present.
to process their guilt over all that happened. Their goals vary, but what’s clear is that the “normalcy” many of them thought they wanted cannot satisfy. And so, in a twist, a series laden with carnivorous metaphors also takes on the comparatively mundane concerns thatAs for the former timeline, it has rightly been praised for how well it doubles as a time capsule of the ’90s.
If that feels like a stretch, you can appreciate the difficulty of what this show is trying to do. And why it’s almost impossible to look away. I don’t want to credit this show with restraint. “What if teen girls ate the popular one” is about as juicy a genre premise as you can wring out of our collective id, but it’s simply true, and fascinating, that
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