Yellowjackets - Season 2

MOVIE #1,125 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.25.23 Let’s be honest, this was a pretty steep drop in quality from the very fun first season. Things are just as chaotic and salacious and unbelievable but outside of a moment here and there, and a few performances (I really liked Elijah Woods), it’s not nearly as enjoyable anymore. This was probably inevitable given the wacky subject matter. It just never seems to lean hard enough into one single direction and embrace it (be it the comedy, the horror, or simply the impenetrable weirdness), instead opting to keep a toe in several boxes at all times. I think it’s much harder to a do a layered, multiple-season show that is essentially genre-less than a film of a similar ilk where the comparative brevity of the run-time offers more freedom in a way. I fear this is heading towards Walking Dead Hell™ which is a term I’ve coined for content that trudges on well past its welcome and which I continue to watch out of some ill-advised sense of duty to “find out what happens,” etc. We shall see.

the above is an archival podcast recording

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Yellowjackets is an American thriller drama television series created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. It stars an ensemble cast led by Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton as a group of teenagers involved in a plane crash in 1996, with Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Lauren Ambrose, and Simone Kessell playing their adult counterparts in 2021. Ella Purnell, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, and Kevin Alves also star. The series premiered on Showtime on November 14, 2021. It has received critical acclaim, particularly for its story and the performances of the cast. Its accolades include seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series and acting nominations for Lynskey and Ricci. In December 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on March 26, 2023. In December 2022, the series was renewed for a third season It was released on March 26, 2023.