Tag: coming of age
“Yellowjackets,” and the Problem of Women Eating One Another
In the Showtime drama “Yellowjackets,” cannibalism is preordained, both for the characters and for the viewers. The series, about a high-school girls’ soccer team stranded in the Canadian wilderness, has been building toward this turn since the very first episode, which reeled in audiences with its ominous flash-forwards of an unidentified young woman being chased into a spike-filled trap, then ritualistically eaten. The show takes place in two time lines: in the nineties, when a plane crash forces the girls