Yellowjackets Season 2 (2023) spoiler free review
We hear the wilderness and it hears us. Yellowjackets is an American thriller drama television series created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. It follows a group of teenagers involved in a plane crash in 1996 and their lives 25 years later after the rescue. Season 2 premiered on Showtime on March 26, 2023 and concluded with nine episodes on May 26, 2023. All episodes are now available to stream on Showtime and Video on Demand.
In 1996, a New Jersey high school girls’ soccer team travels to Seattle for a national tournament. While flying over Canada, their plane crashes deep in the wilderness, and the surviving team members are left stranded for nineteen months. The series chronicles their attempts to stay alive as some of the team members are driven to cannibalism. It also focuses on their lives 25 years later, in 2021, following their rescue.
Series synopsis
The main cast includes Melanie Lynskey and Sophie Nélisse as the adult and teenage versions of Shauna Shipman, Tawny Cypress and Jasmin Savoy Brown as the adult and teenage versions of Taissa Turner, Ella Purnell as Jackie Taylor, Steven Krueger as Ben Scott, or Coach Ben, Warren Kole as the adult version of Jeff Sadecki, Christina Ricci and Samantha Hanratty as the adult and teenage versions of Misty Quigley, Juliette Lewis and Sophie Thatcher as the adult and teenage versions of Natalie “Nat” Scatorccio, Simone Kessell and Courtney Eaton as the adult and teenage versions of Lottie Matthews, Lauren Ambrose and Liv Hewson as the adult and teenage versions of Vanessa “Van” Palmer, and Kevin Alves as the teenage version of Travis Martinez.
Episode’s guide
- Friends, Romans, Countrymen (Mar 26, 2023)
- Edible Complex (Mar 31, 2023)
- Digestif (Apr 7, 2023)
- Old Wounds (Apr 14, 2023)
- Two Truths and a Lie (Apr 21, 2023)
- Qui (May 5, 2023)
- Burial (May 12, 2023)
- It Chooses (May 19, 2023)
- Storytelling (May 26, 2023)
The first season premiered back on Showtime on November 14, 2021. It received seven Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series and acting nominations for Melanie Lynskey (Adult Shauna) and Christina Ricci (Adult Misty). In December 2022, the series was renewed for a third season that remains in pre production because of the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.
My opinion
Picking up right were season one ended the second season of Yellowjackets will lead us further into the wilderness and impact of it on the now adult members of the team. This season also finally shows how the team ended up driven into cannibalism and how they realized that it was their only chance for survival. In the present timeline the survivors of the plane crash are force to accept their traumas and face the wilderness once again with a tragic ending.
The most remarkable element of this season and show is the acting. Both cast, teen and adults, deliver outstanding performances with Melanie Lynskey, Sophie Nélisse, Christina Ricci, Samantha Hanratty, and Sophie Thatcher taking the spotlight. The soundtrack selection for each episode is spot on adding more emotions and completing the atmosphere already created by the scrip and the cast’s members. The only flaw that can be found on this season is the writing. While it’s written in a way that the timelines are easy to understand, by moments they’re adding more information without answering previous questions first. It also jumps from one event to another leaving the girls trauma response into a surface level overusing the “I don’t wanna talk about it” feeling. This can hurt the series on the long run since some details will be left behind in order to wrap up the story.
With a lot yet to be revealed this triller drama is far from being over. With a third season confirmed we can only hope for at least one more season to give the series the proper ending. The season finale leaves both timelines in a cliffhanger rising the expectations for what will come next. This is the perfect show for people who want to get started into cannibalism content since it doesn’t features the usual amount of gore yet. All 19 episodes are available to stream on Showtime and Video On Demand.