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Season 2 of the Yellow Jackets: The Wild Side of a Superfluid Explanation for the Loss of an Old Spot
If anyone was still wondering where the show was going, they might not be paying much attention.
Much of the show’s mystery in the first season hinged on what lengths the titular high school soccer team went to in order to survive a year and a half stranded in the Canadian wilderness following a plane crash – and how as adults, the remaining survivors will stop at nothing to keep those secrets hidden.
If last week’s premiere was any indicator, this week’s installments, titled “Edible Complex,” will open up a lot of those secrets, as it were.
How the key cannibalism moment comes about, which for better or worse continues an unnerving trend that began last year, is a different matter. The circumstances leading to the crew’s collective decision to commit the unthinkable are outside their sphere of control, and they have no control over it.
Teen Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown) is appalled to learn that Shauna is hanging out in the freezing makeshift meat locker with her deceased best friend Jackie (Ella Purnell), a situation made even more urgent by the fact that Shauna is also talking to Jackie and putting makeup on her face – all during her last trimester of pregnancy. Taking a stand to make sure the behavior stops there, Taissa convinces the group to dispose of Jackie’s body by cremation, since the ground is frozen solid.
The group gathers (conveniently dry and copious) firewood for a pyre, and as the snow begins to fall once more, they set it ablaze… and it remains aflame deep into the night, until a snow-loaded branch immediately above just happens to give way and douse the flames just enough to set Jackie on a low simmer. The rest needs no description, except to say that the group is awoken from their slumber by an arresting aroma.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/31/entertainment/yellowjackets-season-2-episode-2/index.html
The Life of a Yellowjackets in the Wild, Part I: The Manifestations of the Wild in the Early 1900’s
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Most of the people who’ve watched this show will probably say yes for now, though they will have to rethink it at some point.
In a cabin in the wilderness, a group of starving teenage girls, a teenage boy and one adult man wake to an unfamiliar smell. They leave their blankets and socks at home and head out into the snowy wild without proper clothes or socks. Outside, their friend, whose body they tried to cremate last night, has turned into smoked meat. They surround her corpse, girl-shaped but foodlike, like a pig from the barbecue pit. One of the girls stands near the charred flesh, knife in hand. “She wants us to,” she says. The feast starts a few moments later.
The second episode of the second season answered the question of what and who these girls were going to eat. The Yellowjackets are a high school girls soccer team that survived a plane crash in the Canadian Rockies while on their way to the 1996 National Championships. The show has become a sensation, garnering five million viewers per week, making it Showtime’s second-most-streamed show ever. The show has spawned fan fiction and forums that include suggested paper topics and frenzied theories about what exactly, the Yellowjackets did in the woods.
Plot mysteries abound: What happened to the hunter who died in the cabin where they shelter? Is there a malevolent spirit in the woods, and will it follow the girls to safety? The show also grapples with some questions of a more fundamental nature, making it a perfect place to perform the re-evaluations that accompany midlife for a demographic aging out of youth. Do people ever really change? Does trauma continue indefinitely?
I went to the north in order to see for myself the secrets promised in the second season of the show. The sky over British Columbia was ashen and spitting indifferent snow as I navigated the slush to the Vancouver soundstage where much of the show was filmed. On the way to the set, I listened to the official “Yellowjackets” playlist, groaning with pleasure as one after another 1990s jam issued forth. I was vibrating with excitement.
