Yellowjackets S01 Review

Yellowjackets Season 1 is not perfect, but it is . It’s Lord of the Flies meets Heathers meets The Descent . It understands that teenage girls are capable of breathtaking cruelty and profound loyalty, often in the same breath. The show’s greatest trick is making you root for the cannibals.

In 1996, a champion New Jersey high school girls’ soccer team, the Yellowjackets, crashes deep in the Ontario wilderness on their way to nationals. In 2021, the four surviving adult women—haunted, secretive, and profoundly broken—are thrust back together when a mysterious blackmailer threatens to expose what really happened out there. yellowjackets s01

Many shows use flashbacks poorly. Yellowjackets uses them as a knife, cutting between past and present with surgical precision. The 1996 timeline is a slow-burn descent into primal chaos: starvation, fractured leadership, and the birth of cannibalistic clans. The 2021 timeline is a sharp, darkly funny thriller about trauma you can never outrun. The fact that both are equally compelling is a testament to the writing. Yellowjackets Season 1 is not perfect, but it is