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- Yellowjackets Season 1 scored a 100% “fresh” rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics. The RT Critics Consensus for the series’ first season reads, “A genre mashup that blends smoothly, Yellowjackets presents an absorbing mystery with plenty of sting.”
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By Tara Bennett
Updated: Jan 17, 2022 9:05 pm
Posted: Jan 17, 2022 3:00 pm
Season 1 of Yellowjackets, which wrapped on Jan. 16, is now available on Showtime. Below is a spoiler-free review.
It’s always been the challenge of a new TV series with an excellent pilot to live up to the promise of its introduction. Reality is that for a myriad of reasons, it’s more common to get diminishing returns and for the series to just disappear into the ratings mist. However, the Showtime original Yellowjackets has bucked the trend by only getting stronger throughout its 10-episode season. It’s earned its glowing critical accolades and audience word-of-mouth since its November premiere because it has masterfully paced out its mysteries within two timelines and leaned on its remarkable ensemble of actors to invest us in the shocking, heartbreaking, and downright bizarre lives of the Yellowjackets championship girls’ soccer team of 1996.
Executive producers Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, and Jonathan Lisco prove that their high-concept premise has legs by their second episode, as they take the momentum of the deftly written and perfectly paced pilot, and continue it forward with their clever non-linear storytelling. Where Season 1 of The Witcher was hampered by the technique, this series proves that dense, non-linear storytelling can be relatively easy to track and engagingly enigmatic with careful construction. In fact, Yellowjackets makes it a formula feature of the show, using the past to inform the future, and vice versa.
The organic cross-cutting of narratives allows the writers to explore major themes or vital character traits over the decades, with stories passing the proverbial baton between actors embodying the same character in 1996 or 2021. Episodes are built around revealing the inherent truths of the characters, such as when young Taissa’s (Jasmin Savoy Brown) blunt leadership and controlling nature becomes clear as she coerces the uncertain survivors to hike together to find a water source. That ability to get her way continues into adulthood as older Taissa (Tawny Cypress) hijacks her peaceful family life to run as a candidate in an intrusive and all consuming Senate race.
Almost all of the core cast gets the same micro attention to detail as the stakes of the past peel back their true natures. That in turn allows us to, throughout the season, stitch together profiles of all of the characters, observing what traits have carried through over time and inversely, how they’ve exponentially changed coming out the other end of such a harrowing survival experience.
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What’s also refreshing about the series is that the characters aren’t reduced to easy tropes. Sure, there are petty conflicts and social pecking order-based rivalries amongst the girls in the 1996 stories. But each character is also robustly expanded beyond the cliche and everyone is given the respect and depth of being portrayed as many things. The socially awkward Misty (Sammi Hanratty), for example, could just be the reductive weirdo who irritates everyone. Instead, Misty is also well read, sometimes heroic, and almost Machiavellian in divining the paths to her desires in both her youth and adulthood. Christina Ricci then carries that through into Misty’s now boring adulthood working at a senior living facility. The chipper surface remains, but for the survivors who know her better, she remains the ruthless “go-to gal” when it comes to getting things done.
Yellowjackets also manages to balance the mundane with a myriad of involving mysteries. The showrunners wisely establish just the right amount of unsettling questions about their post-crash environments and personalities to amp up the tension. They tease bad juju permeating the place that becomes their new home in the woods, and that team members like Lottie (Courtney Eaton), Laura Lee (Jane Widdop), and Tai might be conduits to something beyond. But nothing is pushed to be so high concept that the grounded plausibility of the show is sacrificed. In fact, everything spooky, from the runes littering the wilderness of the crash site to Tai’s generational connection to a female figure that has appeared to the women in her family, are equally presented with answers that could be anchored in the pragmatic, or the unknown.
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Yellowjackets makes good on the promises laid out in its pilot by crafting an engaging season of television that balances the high-concept premise with an involving character exploration. The show tracks the bonds these young women forge out of their unexpected trauma, and reveals what becomes of them 25 years later. The tragedy of the crash and it...
Yellowjackets: Season 1 Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller; Air Date: Nov 14, 2021; Network: PARSHO; Do you think we mischaracterized a critic's review?
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Nov 12, 2021 · Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” is a unique hybrid series—part family drama, part survival story, part horror movie, part coming-of-age flick.
Nov 14, 2021 · Yellowjackets. Season 1. Season Premiere: Nov 14, 2021. Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews. 78. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 32 User Ratings. 7.9. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review. Where to Watch. Amazon ($1.99) All Watch Options. Not available in your country? ExpressVPN.
