Yellowjackets season 2 is more of an appetizer than a feast

The girls are back and still having a bad time.

The gruesome mystery returns, but it’s lacking some of the punch that made the first season so potent.Winter was always coming for the Yellowjackets, so it’s no surprise that the new season sees the team barely living off bear remains and root tea amidst vicious blizzards and slow, miserable starvation.

I previously wrote about the way it makes a soft weapon of ’90s nostalgia and memories of teenage power dynamics When you make a show about people getting stranded under extreme conditions, it also means managing stereotypical assumptions about where it’s going to go — cannibalism and mutiny being the most obvious ones, thanks to decades of history and genre fiction and the simple realities of human nature. The trick, then, is in execution and payoff, and the new season doesn’t always stick the landing.

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