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Yellowjackets S1E8: “Flight of the Bumblebee”
The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets S1E8, “Flight of the Bumblebee” (written by Cameron Brent Johnson & Liz Phang and directed by Ariel Kleiman) I guess let’s dive right into the shallow end, as the concluding scenes of Yellowjackets S1E8 see Shauna confronting Adam about who he is and leave us with a cliffhanger. She’s […] More
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in Favorites
A Few of Our Favorite (and Most Disappointing) Things in 2021 TV
It’s time for another round of the venerable 25YL TV Obsessive Awards! If you haven’t heard, 2022 will bring 25YL TV to its own site, as we launch TV Obsessive. Don’t worry, though, things won’t change that much. A word as to the ethos that guides the entries that follow (which also gets to a […] More
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Yellowjackets S1E7: “No Compass” — Moral or Otherwise
The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets S1E7, “No Compass” (written by Katherine Kearns and directed by Eva Sørhaug) Have I mentioned before in these articles how Van has been my favorite Yellowjacket from the beginning? Somehow I feel like the action has always been elsewhere, or others have been more implicated in the mystery, while […] More
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Yellowjackets S1E6: “Saints” — The Phantom Is Inside Your Mind
The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets S1E6, “Saints” (written by Chantelle Wells and directed by Bille Woodruff) Yellowjackets S1E6 opens with a set of scenes of Lottie as a child. She’s in the car with her parents and freaks out for no reason, but their reaction to said freakout keeps them from moving the car […] More
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Yellowjackets S1E5: “Blood Hive” — This Is How We Do It
The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets S1E5, “Blood Hive” (written by Ameni Rozsa and directed by Eva Sørhaug) I’ve noted before that since the pilot Yellowjackets seems to be centering each episode around one character in particular. It’s subtle—certainly subtler than in Lost, for example—but also fairly clear that S1E2 circulated around Misty, S1E3 around Taissa, […] More
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in Featured Shows, Series
Themes and Clues in the Yellowjackets Opening Credits — Buzz!
The following focuses on the opening credits/title sequence of Yellowjackets as it appears in S1E3 and S1E4, and includes spoilers through Episode 4 of the series (“Bear Down“) As of this writing, I have seen the first four episodes of Yellowjackets and have been thinking about the opening title sequence since it appeared in Episode […] More
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Yellowjackets S1E4: “Bear Down” — It’s Time for Breakfast
The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets S1E4, “Bear Down” (written by Liz Phang and directed by Deepa Mehta) Yellowjackets S1E4 begins with a repetition of the plane crash, moving this time to focus on Natalie’s perspective. She reaches over to grab a man’s arm, and that man turns out to be her father…sans half a […] More
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Yellowjackets S1E3: “The Dollhouse” Plays Outside Time
The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets S1E3, “The Dollhouse” (written by Sarah L. Thompson and directed by Eva Sørhaug) Much like another show about survivors of a plane crash, it would seem that after the pilot Yellowjackets may center each episode around a particular character. With “F Sharp” that was Misty, though I hardly noticed […] More
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Yellowjackets S1E2: “F Sharp” Buzzes in the Wilderness
The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets S1E2, “F Sharp” (written by Jonathan Lisco & Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson, and directed by Jamie Travis). “Opinion is the wilderness between knowledge and ignorance,” Misty says in Yellowjackets Episode 2, “that’s Plato.” The quote seems to be off, as online search results have it as “medium” instead […] More
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The Yellowjackets Premiere Lodges a Stinger in the Mind
The following contains spoilers for the premiere of Yellowjackets, S1E1, “Pilot” (written by Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson, and directed by Karyn Kusama) The premiere of Yellowjackets haunts me. This makes sense, of course, given the dark nature of its opening and closing scenes, along with all of those moments in the woods interspersed throughout […] More
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in Larks & Recs
What’s the Buzz: Yellowjackets and The Mortuary Collection
Welcome to What’s the Buzz, where members of our staff provide you with recommendations on a weekly basis. Each week a rotating cast of writers will offer their recommendations based on things they have discovered. They won’t always be new to the world, but they’ll be new to us, or we hope new to you. […] More
