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Yellowjackets (TV Series)

Yellowjackets

2021

Ashley Lyle (Creator), Bart Nickerson (Creator) ...

Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Ava Allan ...

6.3

2,109

TV Series. Thriller. Mystery TV Series (2021-). 2 Seasons. A team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later, proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Amanda Feinman Slant	"[2nd Season Review]: An absorbing study of what gets lost in the wilderness (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Belen Edwards Mashable	"[2nd Season Review]: An irresistibly harrowing watch, complete with new mysteries, jaw-dropping horrors, and a consistently incredible cast"	POS
United States	Tara Bennett IGN	"[2nd Season Review]: The delicious sting is a bit diminished in a bloated season 2"	NEU
United States	Marya E. Gates The Playlist	"[2nd Season Review]: [This season] should place Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) very high in the pantheon of the greatest television anti-heroes of all time"	POS
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"[2nd Season Review]: Deeply satisfying return (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Boyd Hilton Empire	"[2nd Season Review]: it continues to be as uniquely gnarly and peculiar as its title sequence with this madly inventive second season, full of thrillingly disturbing developments (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Valerie Ettenhofer Film School Rejects	"[2nd Season Review]: An intense second season that's even better than the first"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[2nd Season Review]: Season 2 of showtime sensation is alternately terrific and tedious (...) It’s not mechanically sound, but Yellowjackets is still moving forward. For now"	NEU
United Kingdom	Leila Latif The Guardian	"[2nd Season Review]: this wonderfully imaginative sequel is even better than last time (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joshua Alston Variety	"[2nd Season Review]: Returns bolder and bloodier in intense second season"	POS
United States	Carly Lane Collider	"[2nd Season Review]: [It] is still packed to the brim with what made the series such a buzzworthy hit in the beginning"	POS
Canada	Graeme Guttmann Screen Rant	"[2nd Season Review]: It's as mean, blackly humorous, and brutal as ever, and there's nothing else like it"	POS
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"[2nd Season Review]: It's hard to sit back and calmly wait for 'Yellowjackets' to make sense... I'm certainly not prepared to give up on 'Yellowjackets', but it may soon be in need of a rescue of its own"	NEG
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[2nd Season Review]: Asking clever questions but slow to confront them, Bart Nickerson and Ashley Lyle's sequel season struggles to match its dynamite debut"	NEU
United States	Vanessa Armstrong SlashFilm	"[2nd Season Review]: The show is angrier, more unhinged, and as good as ever"	POS
United States	Gwen Ihnat The Wrap	"[2nd Season Review]: Even the most head-scratching stories are elevated by the hypnotic performances of the superlative cast"	POS
United States	Emily Zemler The New York Observer	"[2nd Season Review]: The mystery lingers, which is what makes 'Yellowjackets' so much fun, as does its tone"	POS
United States	Maggie Fremont TV Guide	"[2nd Season Review]: It's pretty telling that even when 'Yellowjackets' begs you to cover your eyes, it remains almost impossible to look away"	POS
United Kingdom	Anita Singh Telegraph	"[2nd Season Review]: The novelty of 'Yellowjackets' has worn off for me... But the show has an army of devoted fans [and] if you're one of them, I'm sure this series won't disappoint (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[2nd Season Review]: The scene-to-scene writing is still spectacular, buoyed by one of the best ensembles on TV"	POS
United States	Kelly Lawler USA Today	"[2nd Season Review]: There's something about 'Yellowjackets' that just eats at you (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
Australia	Craig Mathieson The Age	"[2nd Season Review]: This horror-charged thriller is one of the most delicious shows on television: it's both an enthralling, emotionally knotty watch and features cannibalism (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roxana Hadadi Vulture	"[2nd Season Review]: 'Yellowjackets' is making a compelling case for its own longevity"	POS
United States	Candice Frederick The Wrap	"The fact that it dabbles in too many genres when it could settle on its solid mystery thriller elements. But when it commits to its chilling suspense, the show is utterly fascinating to watch"	POS
United States	Judy Berman Time	"Yellowjackets Is the Best New Show in Months (...) What makes this patchwork of styles, tones and time periods hang together is the thread of psychological realism that runs through every scene"	POS
United States	Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"Yellowjackets starts out with a gripping pilot, directed by Karyn Kusama, and then gradually loses narrative momentum (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Caroline Framke Variety	"It blends teen tropes, horror, and psychological drama with a confidence that makes it hard to stop watching, even at its most gruesome."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Excellent ensemble, clever storytelling give Showtime’s 'Yellowjackets' its sting (...) [It] gets richer and richer with each episode"	POS
United States	Angie Han The Hollywood Reporter	"Asking questions is fun for only so long if no answers are forthcoming, and in the six episodes given to critics for review (...) 'Yellowjackets' seems increasingly in danger of becoming as lost as its own characters"	NEU
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"[A] pulpy blend of Alive, Lord of the Flies, and Amazon's YA survival drama The Wilds (...) t if the rest of the season is as tasty as the first course, it'll be worth it to stick around for dessert"	POS
United States	Carly Lane Collider	"A Harrowing Thriller Series About Surviving More Than Just Girlhood (...) where Yellowjackets succeeds as a survival drama is in the minutiae"	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"After six hours, I wish for more coherence for these post-stardom actors, more space for their characters to breathe, more opportunities to push beyond mystery to something cathartic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Dana Feldman Forbes	"If You Think 'Squid Game' Was Intense, Wait Until You Binge 'Yellowjackets' (...) [A] new incredibly gripping drama"	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"'Yellowjackets' caps off the most disturbing TV season in years — and one of the best"	POS
Canada	Josh Bell CBR	"[It] serves the Perfect Balance of Pulp & Prestige TV (...) Showtime's Yellowjackets television series tells a captivating story with a slew of compelling characters and plenty of mysteries to solve."	POS
United States	Kristen Lopez IndieWire	"Teen girls, cannibalism, and dark secrets captivate (...) 'Yellowjackets' is all kinds of fun"	POS
United States	Matthew Jacobs TV Guide	"This saga about a teenage girls soccer team stranded in the Canadian wilderness adopts a hodgepodge of tones and influences, some of them compelling and some of them confused."	NEU
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"'Yellowjackets' does a good job at tackling three genres at once. It’s a thriller, a coming of age story and a survival story, and all of it is presented in a way that makes us want to see more."	POS
United States	Marya E. Gates The Playlist	"While 'Yellowjackets' features strong performances from its leads and poses intriguing questions about human nature pushed to extremes, ultimately it feels crowded with too many plot points and characters"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A well-filmed, original work with great production values that deftly toggles back and forth between timelines and genres and features stellar performances (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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