Yellowjackets (2021)

Yellowjackets Season 2 is darker, more disturbing, and more confident than ever—utterly fearless in its storytelling and unflinching in its vision.

A best drama nomination for “Yellowjackets,” which was nominated for its first season in last year’s Emmy race, seems pretty likely if the first six episodes made available for review are indicative of the season as a whole.

One thing that feels assured is Yellowjackets will continue to clear the high bar it sets for itself and be about way more than just “trauma”.

The whole cast are excellent, but this is Lynskey’s show. ... The first season of Yellowjackets was great. Season two is spookier, bloodier and just as funny. Strap yourself in for another wild ride.

Although the present has yet to fully measure up to the stomach-churning storytelling of the past, Season 2 is still packed to the brim with what made the series such a buzzworthy hit in the beginning: dark comedy blended with harrowing drama, and more than enough wild reasons to keep watching.

Naturally, everyone mentions “Lost” as the “Yellowjackets” antecedent, but “The Leftovers,” Damon Lindelof’s superior, baroque creation, is a better comparison.

Casting here alone should win awards for capturing the essence of a decade when raw, untamed and dangerous young women surged to the forefront of music and film. Ricci (“The Ice Storm”), Lynskey (“Heavenly Creatures”) and Lewis (“Natural Born Killers”) kill in “Yellowjackets,” figuratively and literally. ... If it holds up (I’ve seen the first six episodes available for review), “Yellowjackets” may turn out to be my favorite show of 2021, even though it stretches into 2022.

Overall, the storyline with the teenage girls actually enduring the wilderness is superior. ... Right now, “Yellowjackets” is all kinds of fun, focused on a messy story and the messy people who rose from the ashes of it.

The metronome on this show ticks between character development on one side and plot twists/revelations on the other with such a fantastic rhythm that it becomes mesmerizing. Even at its most extreme (and it gets pretty extreme), it holds together.

A superb Showtime thriller that riffs on Flies without repeating it. ... Yellowjackets is the rare series whose execution improves upon an already strong premise. Each episode has its puzzles and twists, just as each woman has her secrets, all set up carefully enough to make you wonder why you didn’t unravel them sooner.

Too many plot holes and terrible acting to be worth watching in my opinion.

Love the supernatural mistery in the show, but we need more gradual explanations. Season 3 is much better than 2.

1st and 2nd season are amazing and 3 is still good just a little worse.Some of them just piss me off so much that I want to break my tv every episode. Definitely would recommend and really hope they get renewed for another season.

I believe this show was very good. It had inspiration from the show and movie, Twin Peaks. I believe it could have been better on the writers part, not the acting.

Finished with season 1. I've liked it better than stranger things which is rated a 76 on meta. Thematically Stranger Things is probably better but Yellowjackets I find is more interesting. I found myself bored and took many breaks to finish watching Stranger Things. Yellowjackets has more scary moments, more thrilling, the twist are just as good.

L’on suit ici des gilets jaunes qui se retrouvent à l’insu de leur plein gré dans un Koh Lanta non désiré… puis, nous les revoyons 25 ans plus **** ou plutôt la série fait régulièrement la navette et les allers et retours incessants entre la catastrophe du passé et la vie quotidienne du présent parmi les survivantes… Ces dernières sont volontiers à moitié dingues (avant et après) mais tout de même, très régulièrement, les scénaristes (la plupart du temps, des **** hargneuses et vindicatives bien sûr) font beaucoup trop régulièrement… n’importe quoi ! on a du mal à croire à tout ce fatras…! Néanmoins, la première saison se montre intrigante et sait certainement appâter le spectateur (et la spectatrice) téméraire… on nous fait miroiter des complots et des machinations, des choses affreuses et des évènements horribles dans cette épreuve de survie au long cours, et d’ailleurs les deux ou trois derniers épisodes de la première saison semblent vraiment se réveiller… Et puis, et puis… la seconde saison fait juste… pschiiiit ! on repart pour du remplissage et le miroir aux alouettes, les rebondissements de plus en plus bidons, des trous béants dans le scénar de crevardes et des incohérences qui nous prennent vraiment -très régulièrement- pour des cons ! Signalons également un wokisme trop envahissant et plus ça va, moins ça va : la propagande pour la diversité mais surtout pour la ligue LGBT turbine à plein régime ! c’en devient très fatigant… et ridicule également. Dans ces conditions globalement déplorables, nous décidons de ne pas poursuivre l’aventure… dommage pour Juliette Lewis épatante en tarée alcoolo dans la saison 1, elle apportait un vrai plus… mais la seconde saison dénature tout son personnage, hélas !

This isn't so much a review, but an expression of common sense bafflement. Shauna dumps Van, Tai and Misty at the hospital and drives all the way to Richmond then breaks into a house only to be caught by Melissa (Kelly)...then she accuses her of killing Lottie, why doesn't Melissa just say "I'm was in Virginia, how could I have killed Lottie and done all those other things " ?? Isn't that what anyone would just say?

Watched the trailer. It looks so bad! Why are writers and film makers so bad today?

Made it to episode3 beforei calledit quits. Do you want terrible characters who act so out of place that it annoys you? Do you want terrible writing? Do you want situations that wouldn't happen if it happened so it throws off the "thriller" aspect of the show? Ding ding ding! I'll take yellow jackets for a thousand alex. I'll give you an example, three days in the wilderness and the two most annoying characters in the teenage group convince the rest of the group to hike five miles instead of just using their brains and splitting up for a bit. What do you thinkhappens when they reach the lake? A. Long dramatic scene involvingthe characters confronting each other and the reality of the situation? B. Intense scene where they are so relieved they show the emotions one would when this situation would happen? C. The annoying red head screams, rips her cloths off and dives straight into cold water like its spring break at Pensacola Beach while a goofy alternative songthat's played 15 other times in the past two episodes plays yet again. Meanwhile a tall dark handsome guy runs and jumps in the water as the three girls staring go "wait.. wait.. is he ACTUALLY HOT!". As he stares and smiles. Btw, his dad died horrifically in the plane wreck three days prior and this is his mental state. This is the teens.. were not even onto the adults. Everybit of "thriller" or "mystery" this show has is **** out of the moment immediately with bits like this.

Yellow Jackets Season 2….. should have stopped at season 1. While I liked thegrowth of most of the characters ( Lottie’s a bit silly) Shaunas character grew more ridiculous each episode. I bought into the overweight thin hair character during season 1. Wasnt really believable that hot young artist would fall for her…. but whatever. Season 2 brought it to a new….crazy level. Besting a car jacker, making her daughter an accomplice by telling her everything? My friends & I finished the season…. cringing during her airplay but decided its a hard NO on a season 3, if they are crazy enough to allow this silliness to continue.

Literally checks off every woke box you can think of, not just for casting but for scenes themselves. You have the "body count" scene where the girl flips out when a guy asks her how many guys she's been with. There's the scene where the girls are driving and see a sign congratulating the boys team but not theirs. There's a lesbian love couple in each timeline. Promotes cheating on your spouse. Women are strong badasses that throw truck drivers around like they are children. There's a black woman running for political office who is married to another woman. The show jumps between 2 timelines about every 30 seconds. This is trash show about female empowerment and witchcraft. The entire cast is just women. Every female character is has a horrible attitude including the main couples daughter. The way she talks to her mom is unbelievable. There is only one white male on the show and his wife cheats on him and he's perfectly fine with it. The rest of the men are useless (coach) and they made sure to make them mexican (but then again it's about a soccer team). Absolute trash show that doesn't get the point. If it was just about the girls making it through the time in the forest it might be good, but they did this idiotic timeline jumping thing from past to present to pad the time and milk this thing for as many seasons as they could. This should've been a 1-2hr movie about the girls surviving in the forest.

I actually started really enjoying it but somewhere in S1 it just lost me. It has all the ingredients for a great show but I started finding it took effort to watch. The timeline jumps are too jarring and just way too often. Too many sub-plots never go anywhere or get lost in the jumping. The most frustrating part is that youi can see how good it could have been.

not even remotely comparable to S1. script is repetitive and very, very weak

A good main story and solid acting is squandered by the frustrating clichés, dull tropes, and constant switching away from interesting scenes to scenes which have absolutely no hook to them. Extremely overrated. Go watch Severance instead if you want a well directed and produced show.

This review is being written with love and I honestly hope to not anger fellow users but help them decide if this series is for them or not. I come in peace and hope I will not anger the Yellowjackets fan-wagon which is going strong. This review is written after having watched all episodes so far, the last being the 5th of the second season. I am sorry to report that this series is not worth our time. The presentation is great and the premise looks good, but after one season you realise it happens to deal with the same issues other mystery series with Lost being the leader and more recently the awful Servant, this series has no actual well-thought point and endgame. They are going about, with a rough, vague, "main" storyline and few explanations because, quite francly there are none- or there are but are so basic they are not worth being discused. The other issue I have is with the characters. I understand in 2023, the narative has fliped and there are no "good" or "lawfull good" or even "chaotic good" characters anymore, but in this series I have a strugle realizing who I am meant to root for. The series is not built like it wants to present the path of darkness, but more like... "you know what, **** it, they are all murderers, but arent they cool or cute or hilarious?". I don't get it. I wish there was a payoff to the mystery, but this series has stolen all that was written in Lost, and remember the ending? There were some highs, with the ending of the third season and the "Not Penny's Boat" magnificence, but OH DEAR after season 4 it got derailed because there was NO plan, NO surprise, NO payoff. Nothing. Because they went along, and let it go wherever, however. But the characters at least were... in a way consistent. With Yellowjackets, I am missing the point. I wish I knew who to root, or if I am for some (some?) justice? Some, like, a bit, a hero? Something. Redemption? Something. I dunno. I spent 15 hours so far, and don't want to keep at it. It feels like Servant. After the second season, it was pointless, only to finish in season 5 with a talk that could have happened in season 1, episode 1. Literally. I don't want the same from this, but its going there.

The problem is that there are about 5 different story lines. A lot of them are origin story of the survivors. They just aren't gripping, in fact I fast forwarded through most of it, because I just don't care about these characters. So when I fast forward to the survival story line, it was pretty good at first, but then it gets ridiculously implausible. The movie "Alive" (1993) which is also about a downed plane carrying soccer player, is far better, and extremely similar in the main narrative. Which is based on a true story.

Hilarious, horrifying, amazing, beautiful television. Van is the best. More please.

First season had 5 excellent episodes. The coordination of writers between episodes was sloppy. Often the viewer is given key fact in later episodes out of nowhere: Taiesa squabble with her lover in wilderness, Jackie well aware that shauna cheated with her boyfriend etc. The whodunnit on the blackmail was unbelievable. I made it through the season but was an effort.

Yellowjackets has a lot of potential, the main plot line of a football team stranded in the wild and surviving until being rescued is compelling enough to attract a big audience. However it fails to deliver. Episode 1 is endless, pointless and boring. I powered through it hoping their teenager lives and drama was just some necessary exposition to get into the main story but I was very wrong, that is the main story. It is a very odd choice have such an interesting story, a great cast and then focus on the least interesting portion of the timeline and furthermore, making it excruciatingly long and dull. One episode was enough for me.

It's just a bad "current year" remake of Lord of the Flies with "stronk, independent" bender cast.