Ani Bundel: One of the buzziest shows of the year exposes an ugly truth at the center of its addictive appeal.
premieres on Sunday, March 26, and the buzzy series hasn’t lost any sting in its sophomore season. Showrunners ratchet up the tension right off the bat, while somehow managing to lean even harder into their exquisite portraits of post-traumatic stress disorder.
With strong notes of both “Lost” and “Lord of the Flies,” the series takes place in two different timelines. “Then” is 1996, senior year for the stars of the Yellowjackets girls’ soccer team, whose private plane crashes in the Ontario wilderness on the way to the national championship. The survivors are stranded for 19 very long months.
Season two doesn’t make fans wait long for answers. The premiere cheerfully features a now-heavily pregnant teen Shauna chowing down on a human ear, with Tori Amos’ “Cornflake Girl” playing blithely in the background. Emotional trauma accompanies the now fully realized physical gore. Teen Shauna spends hours talking to her best friend Jackie, who died in the first season finale after the group metaphorically froze her out.
Season one was critically praised for its surprisingly realistic portraits of PSTD attacks, it barbed humor, and its unflinching unpacking of group friendship dynamics. Season two seethes at a world which left these girls to die in the wilderness, and at a media establishment that exploited their tragedy. This wrath is powerfully rendered. And as in season one, the internalized misogyny the women carry remains an unspoken ghost at the table, looming large in their choices, both past and present.
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