Showtime’s Lost-meets-Alive series Yellowjackets comes with a ton of buzz. A critical darling, it boasts a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Too good to be true? In this episode, we cut through the hype and tell you if the series is worth 10 hours of your time.
What else we're watching (01:36)
Mat: Pen15 and Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Jeff: Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian and The Girl In the Window Across the Street (Netflix)
Shindy: The Gilded Age and film The Last Duel (HBO Max)
Yellowjackets: first impressions (10:13)
Yellowjackets follows a girls’ high school soccer team whose plane crashes in the remote wilderness in the 1990s. They have to survive for a year and a half in a spooky cabin in some spooky woods. In a second timeline unfolding in parallel, we see them deal with the fallout and trauma from that time in the present day.
“It came from out of nowhere - all of a sudden, everybody was talking about it, the critics were going crazy," said Mat.
“The show does a great job of transporting us back into the nineties, just like how Stranger Things does with the eighties,” said Shindy.
We loved the killer playlist from the decade (11:48), the throw-back casting Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis (13:25) and the almost exclusive focus on female characters and storyline (16:39).
There were plenty of hang-ups (21:07) but we enjoyed the ambiguity of the spooky happenings in the forest (26:04).
Stream It or Leave It? (32:20)
Deep dive with spoilers (33:11)
That's not all! If you’ve already seen Yellowjackets, join us for our spoilerific deep dive , where we debate the various plot twists and bring out our theories of what is really happening.
We also have fun casting some characters we have yet to see as grown-ups for season two (42:59).
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