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Yellowjackets
I've never crashed a plane. Fortunately for me. If that happen, if I
survived and ended up in a dense forest, the first thing I would do is
to send an explorer to find civilization. Especially when it turns out
that near the impact site there is a cabin, so someone has made it up
to there. And there is also a river that ends somewhere.
The authors of Yellowjackets think very differently and they are right,
despite everything, because if they had done what I wrote, we would not
have had the pleasure of throwing ourselves into the nostalgia of the
nineties. And for those who in those years were in the best period of
life (from 14 to 24 in short) this dip into the past is particularly
tasty.
Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the two creators, do things right.
Indeed perfectly. Because they involve Juliette Lewis and Christina
Ricci who in those years were at top thanks to iconic roles. Just
missing Wynona Rider, but we know, she chose the dark side: those
fucking eighties.
Yellowjackets therefore takes us back in time, with continuous quotes
and a soundtrack that listening to it you finds yourself wearing the
plaid shirt, the sweatshirt, and even the Nike Air on your feet. Not
just objects and music, however, because the series somehow manages to
bring the mentality of the time to life and always somehow transmit
messages to the new generations (female in this case), without any
particular academic ambitions. For us elderly, there is also the aspect
of all those expectations, often sadly blurred, that the adult version
of the characters in the series shows us with brazen realism. Could it
be that we didn't become what we wanted? Yes, fuck, yes!
Well ... Yellowjackets is not just a nostalgic operation, on the
contrary, it also has a story that mixes thriller, teen drama, black
humour and horror, with, "Alive", "Lord of the flies" and partly "Lost"
as very evident sources of inspiration.
A narrative that develops in continuous and very tense temporal leaps
between 1996 and today, in a way so convincing that I was looking
forward to the first episodes. Then, unfortunately, for the column of
defects, I must say that the series slows down excessively, revealing
things with the dropper and recovering worthily in the last two
episodes.
Maybe that's how it works, because Yellowjacket has already been designed for, at least, two seasons.
The story tells of a women's soccer team, Yellowjackets in fact, who
crashes on a plane during the journey to reach the finals of the
championship. The girls who survived the impact were lost in a dense
bush, in the company of the coach and two brothers, one of whom was the
same age and rather appreciated (here, this thing that happens to him
is a great stroke of luck, since the coach is not interested in girls),
they must try to survive. The challenges are not only against nature,
perhaps difficult and supernatural, but also within a group with its
secrets and hatred of the intestines.
At the same time, as mentioned, we see the current life of three
surviving Yellowjackets, who one day find themselves in the midst of
strange events that reopen the wounds of twenty-five years ago.
In addition to the aforementioned superstars Lewis and Ricci (the
second of exceptional beauty) we find Jasmin Savoy Brown from The
Leftovers, the New Zealander Melanie Lynskey awarded at Sundance for
Intervention, Tawny Cypress (The blacklist) and a surprising Sophie
Thatcher who plays the character of Juliette Lewis as a young man,
remembering the complex and rebellious Mallory.