Yellowjackets starts with a question, and that simple question snakes its way throughout the next 10 episodes, spawning sub-questions, paranoia, conspiracy theories, and whole new timelines in which we can wonder what the hell is going on. Yellowjackets’ most enticing mysteries don’t hinge on whether these girls became cannibals after being stranded by a plane crash in the Canadian Rockies-“Did you, or did you not, eat the goalie?” is a pretty simple yes or no question-but on how the girls reached the feral point we find them at in the premiere: the point of Antler Queens, tribal hierarchies, ritualistic hunts, and teammates trapped, killed, strung up, drained, and eaten with bare hands. But the image of a teenage girl running for her life through the snowy woods only to suddenly fall through a trap and be impaled on a series of sharp sticks left there by other teenage girls isn’t just terrifying in a vacuum-it is the genesis of the series’ most horrifying and central questions. Of all the body horror headed our way throughout the first 10 episodes of Yellowjackets-the dreams of rotisserie-chicken babies and visions of land-use lawyers in business-casual blouses chowing down on dirt, plus all the bear stabbings, Biscuit beheadings, maggot munching, berry boozing, and nonconsensual leg cauterizing -the series debuted its most brutal imagery right at the top. Season 1 of Yellowjackets starts not simply with a bang, but with an antler-wearing, throat-slitting, trap-setting, howling, cannibalizing cult.
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