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sm:ml-to md:ml-100 md:max-w-article-body lg:mx-100"><div><div class="mb-4 font-polysans text-13 font-th lowerse alic trackg-1 text-gray-4a">Part of /</div><div class="font-polysans text-22 font-bold leadg-110 text-blurple"><a class="hover:shadow-unrle-blurple" href="/22949266/bt-gam-movi-tv-2022">The bt entertament of 2022</a></div><hr class="mb-40 mt-20 w-1/3 borr-gray-5a"/></div><div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">At the very start of <em>Yellowjackets</em>, we meet Allie, a hman who was meant to be on the plane when crashed. “I’ll never fet the day I heard their plane had gone missg. I mean, that uld have been me,” she says dramatilly a thick Jersey accent, cigarette and we hand. And yet, wasn’t. This one throwaway le has stuck wh me sce the begng of the show; the larger <em>Yellowjackets</em> discsn isn’t jt about the parasocial adoptn of others’ trma, but the way we talk about the girls and the show and regrs to a lirly unhged versn of the ’90s that I didn’t even know I wanted, and l. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><em><strong>This say ntas spoilers for the first season of Yellowjackets.</strong></em></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">When to <em>Yellowjackets</em> theori, there isn’t much to add that hasn’t already been said; I was, the begng, an Adam-is-Javi believer and was, until the fale, nvced that Jackie somehow ma out on her own. But, on the heels of last Sunday’s season fale, what I keep g back to is <em>how </em>we talk about <em>Yellowjackets</em> and the way we project ourselv onto the imperiled teens: quietly rilient Shna, impulsive Nat, needy Jackie, amb Taissa, and everyone’s favore socpath Misty.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--recirculatn--related-list my-40"><h3 class="mb-16 font-polysans-mono text-14 font-medium leadg-120 -trackg-1 text-blurple after:pl-8 after:ntent-['/']">Related</h3><ul class="list-disc pl-18 font-polysans text-16 font-medium leadg-110 marker:text-ankl"><li class="mb-16 pl-12"><a class="hover:shadow-unrle-black" href="/2022/1/15/22884153/yellowjackets-theori-season-fale-showtime">Yellowjackets has reawakened my ner Lost fan</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Unfettered nostalgia for the ’90s — pecially among elr lennials and Gen-X folks — has been a part of our cultural nscns for s, and the <em>Yellowjackets</em> team knows . On the surface, the ’90s settg is s most effective weapon. It was a “simpler time” full of inic albums and movi and tchphras and band T-shirts that rema livg parts of our memori. But was also a time when beg openly queer / gay wasn’t accepted, when cloyg stereotyp had a much stronger hand shapg teen social dynamics, when thgs were awkward and gngy. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">All of this ‘90s tnip is a rose-lored yearng for how we munited before smartphon and TikTok, and for high school girls, a huge part of this is a vlent opera of hormon and a lot of spontaneo psychic damage to the people around them. The show’s creators, Amy Lyle and Bart Nickerson, are really, really good at wieldg this brand of emotnal nostalgia, and as a rult, the way we talk about <em>Yellowjackets</em> is ultimately, for me, a lightful regrsn back to my high-school self. It really is like ridg a fucked-up bike.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="duet--media--embed m-h-[270px] mb-20 w-full"></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">A few crics have poted out, rightly so, that all the speculatg and all the theori ultimately don’t mean anythg. The real beatg heart of <em>Yellowjackets</em> isn’t really about pickg apart Jackie’s temporally qutnable diary entri or the sual Hole song signed to send me straight back to puberty. That’s all set drsg and theatre. And as fun as is potg out when Shna rocks a Yo La Tengo shirt, my takeaway om this whole experience is far more masochistic. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">After the fale, while wag for a iend to rpond to my wall of “lottie wtf” texts, I almost fell over shamblg om the bathroom wh my pants around my ankl to snatch my phone. Sure, we n blame a b of that on panmic life, but the mad hormonal urgency wh which we need to discs and dissect each episo every Sunday night is a time mache straight back to the lirium of high school phone ssns. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">Yellowjackets is a llective fever dream</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><em>Yellowjackets</em> is a llective fever dream, a streamed microdose to brg out the bt and worst of our past selv. It’s a meticuloly-signed mirror that reproduc the nros of high-school teenhood: the small, fierce securi; the volnic outbursts; the shiftg allianc. When we see Jackie starg daggers at Shna gettg close to other girls, I n remember jt how that whe-hot paranoia and jealoy feels my bon. Shna and Jackie’s big fale showdown is built on the social ruals and power dynamics of every archetypal popular-girl story ever told — the kd of stuff that fueled the all-girls boardg school I went to and the kd of stuff you outgrow (hopefully) and shed like a sk. In harnsg this power, <em>Yellowjackets</em> do somethg sacred and brgs back all of that angst and energy to channel to s viewers.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">It’s not jt a show about the visceral pas of teenhood (nor the limbo of adulthood) but the paper-th membran between trma and PTSD and hysteria and realy. On a very basic level, the show is an exploratn of figurative and leral terrs and exterrs, peppered wh the sort of dark humor that shar a satiril herage wh <a href="><em>Heathers</em></a>. It’s a simple formula: mix one part horror / spense wh gnarly gore, a sprklg of dark jok, and one part drama wh a particularly allurg flavor of retrospectn that sucks the viewer like a force of nature. At the same time, don’t take self too serly, which is s savg grace. It’s msy and melodramatic as hell, and if you thk you were any better than this high school, you’re a liar.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">In the fale, we e back to Allie at the Yellowjackets’ 25th high school rnn, still tryg to sert herself to the narrative, ridg high on her posn as class chair. It’s full circle — the Yellowjackets’ story as a form of parasocial muny lore, the survivg group objectified as a kd of aspiratnal trma porn. It back to the way people talk about all, which we replite betifully, almost gleefully as spectators. From a theatril standpot, ’s one of the most effective psdo-participatory shows I’ve mted to a long time, and ’s wild to thk was ma part as proof that girls n be as btal as boys <em>a la</em> Lord of the Fli — genr sentialism asi, high school girls are powerful mons, and you n bet 2022, they absolutely know .</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">This wouldn’t be a real <em>Yellowjackets</em> post if I didn’t ve and name a theory to end this all on and that ’s that our human sacrifice victim was possibly Lottie (tall-ish, long dark hair, last bearer of Jackie’s necklace). We’re supposed to thk Lottie is still alive at the end of the season, thanks to her name beg dropped the last 30 sends of the fale — but <em>Yellowjackets</em> clearly still has surpris up s sleeve. The fact that was ially sold as a five-season show is a ltle ncerng; this isn’t the sort of story that benefs om beg drawn out too long. Still, when to the way speaks to s dience and prompts to dissect s bon among ourselv, <em>Yellowjackets</em> is dog somethg really special right now that I haven’t seen or felt years.</p></div></div><div class="mb-40 mt-30"><button class="duet--article--ments-button group le-flex h-40 w-full ems-center jtify-center round-[2px] borr-[1px] borr-solid borr-blurple font-polysans-mono text-11 font-light upperse trackg-12 text-blurple hover:bg-blurple hover:text-whe md:w-to md:px-30"><svg class="mr-10 le pt-2" width="12" height="14" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 12 12" stroke-width="1px" xmlns="><tle>Comments

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spoke wh Jasm Savoy Brown and Liv Hewson about 'Yellowjackets,' their new podst 'The Gay Agenda,' and queer reprentatn on televisn.

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YELLOWJACKETS IS GAY AS HELL. WHY THAT’S JT WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW

The actor talks Coach beg 'ostracized' om the group, those flashbacks to his boyiend, and the dynamics of playg a gay teacher the '90s. * yellowjackets gay *

"Yellowjackets" star Kev Alv: season 2 fale sets up a huge season 3OffEnglishWell before the premiere episo aired, and well before all the reps, theory posts, and Twter fandom, the spir of my newly gay ’90s teen self stirred wh me and whispered a ll unto the zegeist: “This show is gonna be gay as hell. As someone who went to high school between the years 1991 and 1995, and first realized I was gay when I had a dream at 14 about kissg Wona Ryr, a show like this uld not be more perfect.

It’s peak ’90s gay before even gets to the gay parts.

”A key to Yellowjackets’ populary is the show’s abily to offer up ntent that appeals to a wi range of viewers, while also posssg a certa tangible gayns. Whout beg marketed directly as a such, Yellowjackets is a very gay show bee anythg n be seen as gay if you jt try hard enough, and that’s half the fun of beg gay. But, ’s also very much about adult Natalie (Juliette Lewis) applyg dramatic eyeler a hand-mirror while listeng to Mazzy Star, Shna (Melanie Lynskey) shovg her hband Jeff (Warren Kole) to a piece of furnure wh unniable femme-top energy, Jackie (Ella Purnell) wh her hard femme wilrns hair and lgerg “bt iend” glanc, and Taissa’s (Tawny Cyprs) letter opener batn of unrlyg gay listed above, and overtly gay reali like assistant ach Ben’s (Steven Keger) fger snaps rponse to the girls dog a dance route the b, teenage Taissa (Jasm Savoy Brown) and Van (Liv Hewson) gog full mhroom munch the woods, and adult Taissa’s terrifyg home life wh her wife Simone (Riya Bernard) give a lot to work wh, and all feels very welg for a piece of media that is teasgly steerg towards teen nnibalism.

MELANIE LYNSKEY NFIRMS THAT GAYS HAVE BETTER TASTE: ‘HETEROSEXUALS ARE NOT ALWAYS SO DISCERNG’

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Alyson Hannigan’s character Willow Rosenberg openg up about her gayns season four of Buffy dropped jaws left and right. Gay life—queer life—was a fun ltle secret that we ma space for ourselv privately, or wh the acceptg grac of a chosen few. Quickly approachg the end of my 44th year on this earth, I watch Yellowjackets and thk about how fun was to be gay the ’90s.

We smoked our Marlboro Reds, listened to our PJ Harvey, and was jt a gay, gay, gay ’ol time. And jt this week, along wh fellow "Yellowjackets" star Liv Hewson, Brown lnched Netflix's first LGBTQ-foced podst, The Gay Agenda.

JASM SAVOY BROWN AND LIV HEWSON BRG THE GAY AGENDA TO YELLOWJACKETS

In all of the movi and shows, the gay people die or 's sad about how they me out and their parents abandoned them.

Gays, they're jt like , '" she said wh a lgh. "I was like, 'Well she has to wear a watch bee gays love a watch, ' you know? Through makg The Gay Agenda podst, which will follow the liv of the world's top LGBTQ creativ through a il lens, Brown also aims to brg upliftg queer ntent to Netflix.

"The special, which premiered on the streamg service October, was rebed for cludg transphobic and homophobic ntent, promptg worker protts and rignatns at the streamg said the Chappelle ntroversy was "tratg" bee "there is a place for jok that make people unfortable bee mak them thk" but not "bee they're mean. When asked to weigh on the simmerg bate about whether straight and cisgenr actors should play gay or transgenr characters film and on televisn, Brown said she has mixed feelgs.

NETFLIX LNCH ‘THE GAY AGENDA,’ PODST CELEBRATG LGBTQ+ COMMUNY (EXCLUSIVE)

While the fact that Ben is gay is clearly not the only reason that he is not terted Misty’s advanc, the prence of him as a character is ccial.

In fact, she clapped back adorably on Twter Febary when someone lled her jog the st of HBO’s fungal post-apolyptic smash-h The Last of Us “homosexual agenda-phg”. Lynskey rpond inic fashn, wrg: “OMG y let me ph that homosexual agenda jt by showg up! And the Kiwi actor has sce nfirmed that she really is “big on phg the homosexual agenda”, tellg Gay Tim that she thks “should be phed” and that ’s “a big agenda for me”.

Now, the certified ‘mother’ has enared herself to queer fans everywhere once aga, by askg the very pertent qutn, “Don’t everybody want to be loved by gay people?

IS STEVEN KEGER GAY REAL LIFE? RELATNSHIPS OF YELLOWJACKETS STAR EXPLAED

Referrg to an stance when she was asked disapprovgly about whether she played too many gay rol, Lynskey rpond: “There are so few gay characters the world.

It’s not like I’m gog to be able to exclively play gay people.

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sm:ml-to md:ml-100 md:max-w-article-body lg:mx-100"><div><div class="mb-4 font-polysans text-13 font-th lowerse alic trackg-1 text-gray-4a">Part of /</div><div class="font-polysans text-22 font-bold leadg-110 text-blurple"><a class="hover:shadow-unrle-blurple" href="/22949266/bt-gam-movi-tv-2022">The bt entertament of 2022</a></div><hr class="mb-40 mt-20 w-1/3 borr-gray-5a"/></div><div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">At the very start of <em>Yellowjackets</em>, we meet Allie, a hman who was meant to be on the plane when crashed. “I’ll never fet the day I heard their plane had gone missg. I mean, that uld have been me,” she says dramatilly a thick Jersey accent, cigarette and we hand. And yet, wasn’t. This one throwaway le has stuck wh me sce the begng of the show; the larger <em>Yellowjackets</em> discsn isn’t jt about the parasocial adoptn of others’ trma, but the way we talk about the girls and the show and regrs to a lirly unhged versn of the ’90s that I didn’t even know I wanted, and l. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><em><strong>This say ntas spoilers for the first season of Yellowjackets.</strong></em></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">When to <em>Yellowjackets</em> theori, there isn’t much to add that hasn’t already been said; I was, the begng, an Adam-is-Javi believer and was, until the fale, nvced that Jackie somehow ma out on her own. But, on the heels of last Sunday’s season fale, what I keep g back to is <em>how </em>we talk about <em>Yellowjackets</em> and the way we project ourselv onto the imperiled teens: quietly rilient Shna, impulsive Nat, needy Jackie, amb Taissa, and everyone’s favore socpath Misty.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--recirculatn--related-list my-40"><h3 class="mb-16 font-polysans-mono text-14 font-medium leadg-120 -trackg-1 text-blurple after:pl-8 after:ntent-['/']">Related</h3><ul class="list-disc pl-18 font-polysans text-16 font-medium leadg-110 marker:text-ankl"><li class="mb-16 pl-12"><a class="hover:shadow-unrle-black" href="/2022/1/15/22884153/yellowjackets-theori-season-fale-showtime">Yellowjackets has reawakened my ner Lost fan</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Unfettered nostalgia for the ’90s — pecially among elr lennials and Gen-X folks — has been a part of our cultural nscns for s, and the <em>Yellowjackets</em> team knows . On the surface, the ’90s settg is s most effective weapon. It was a “simpler time” full of inic albums and movi and tchphras and band T-shirts that rema livg parts of our memori. But was also a time when beg openly queer / gay wasn’t accepted, when cloyg stereotyp had a much stronger hand shapg teen social dynamics, when thgs were awkward and gngy. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">All of this ‘90s tnip is a rose-lored yearng for how we munited before smartphon and TikTok, and for high school girls, a huge part of this is a vlent opera of hormon and a lot of spontaneo psychic damage to the people around them. The show’s creators, Amy Lyle and Bart Nickerson, are really, really good at wieldg this brand of emotnal nostalgia, and as a rult, the way we talk about <em>Yellowjackets</em> is ultimately, for me, a lightful regrsn back to my high-school self. It really is like ridg a fucked-up bike.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="duet--media--embed m-h-[270px] mb-20 w-full"></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">A few crics have poted out, rightly so, that all the speculatg and all the theori ultimately don’t mean anythg. The real beatg heart of <em>Yellowjackets</em> isn’t really about pickg apart Jackie’s temporally qutnable diary entri or the sual Hole song signed to send me straight back to puberty. That’s all set drsg and theatre. And as fun as is potg out when Shna rocks a Yo La Tengo shirt, my takeaway om this whole experience is far more masochistic. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">After the fale, while wag for a iend to rpond to my wall of “lottie wtf” texts, I almost fell over shamblg om the bathroom wh my pants around my ankl to snatch my phone. Sure, we n blame a b of that on panmic life, but the mad hormonal urgency wh which we need to discs and dissect each episo every Sunday night is a time mache straight back to the lirium of high school phone ssns. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">Yellowjackets is a llective fever dream</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><em>Yellowjackets</em> is a llective fever dream, a streamed microdose to brg out the bt and worst of our past selv. It’s a meticuloly-signed mirror that reproduc the nros of high-school teenhood: the small, fierce securi; the volnic outbursts; the shiftg allianc. When we see Jackie starg daggers at Shna gettg close to other girls, I n remember jt how that whe-hot paranoia and jealoy feels my bon. Shna and Jackie’s big fale showdown is built on the social ruals and power dynamics of every archetypal popular-girl story ever told — the kd of stuff that fueled the all-girls boardg school I went to and the kd of stuff you outgrow (hopefully) and shed like a sk. In harnsg this power, <em>Yellowjackets</em> do somethg sacred and brgs back all of that angst and energy to channel to s viewers.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">It’s not jt a show about the visceral pas of teenhood (nor the limbo of adulthood) but the paper-th membran between trma and PTSD and hysteria and realy. On a very basic level, the show is an exploratn of figurative and leral terrs and exterrs, peppered wh the sort of dark humor that shar a satiril herage wh <a href="><em>Heathers</em></a>. It’s a simple formula: mix one part horror / spense wh gnarly gore, a sprklg of dark jok, and one part drama wh a particularly allurg flavor of retrospectn that sucks the viewer like a force of nature. At the same time, don’t take self too serly, which is s savg grace. It’s msy and melodramatic as hell, and if you thk you were any better than this high school, you’re a liar.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">In the fale, we e back to Allie at the Yellowjackets’ 25th high school rnn, still tryg to sert herself to the narrative, ridg high on her posn as class chair. It’s full circle — the Yellowjackets’ story as a form of parasocial muny lore, the survivg group objectified as a kd of aspiratnal trma porn. It back to the way people talk about all, which we replite betifully, almost gleefully as spectators. From a theatril standpot, ’s one of the most effective psdo-participatory shows I’ve mted to a long time, and ’s wild to thk was ma part as proof that girls n be as btal as boys <em>a la</em> Lord of the Fli — genr sentialism asi, high school girls are powerful mons, and you n bet 2022, they absolutely know .</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">This wouldn’t be a real <em>Yellowjackets</em> post if I didn’t ve and name a theory to end this all on and that ’s that our human sacrifice victim was possibly Lottie (tall-ish, long dark hair, last bearer of Jackie’s necklace). We’re supposed to thk Lottie is still alive at the end of the season, thanks to her name beg dropped the last 30 sends of the fale — but <em>Yellowjackets</em> clearly still has surpris up s sleeve. The fact that was ially sold as a five-season show is a ltle ncerng; this isn’t the sort of story that benefs om beg drawn out too long. Still, when to the way speaks to s dience and prompts to dissect s bon among ourselv, <em>Yellowjackets</em> is dog somethg really special right now that I haven’t seen or felt years.</p></div></div><div class="mb-40 mt-30"><button class="duet--article--ments-button group le-flex h-40 w-full ems-center jtify-center round-[2px] borr-[1px] borr-solid borr-blurple font-polysans-mono text-11 font-light upperse trackg-12 text-blurple hover:bg-blurple hover:text-whe md:w-to md:px-30"><svg class="mr-10 le pt-2" width="12" height="14" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 12 12" stroke-width="1px" xmlns="><tle>Comments.

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