Yellowjackets S01E01

Spoilers galore, these are my unfiltered thoughts as I watch this show. I may not finished but we'll see.

I had heard about this show from a coworker and finally gave it a shot. I know that it involves a group of girls that get stuck in the middle of the woods, somewhere in northern Ontario. It reminded me of Hatchey and seemed interesting. It also sounded like it was going to be horror adjacent with some strangeness occuring as well. Something in the vein of Lost.

The show shows both 1996 and 2021 and flashes between the two. I can sort of keep track of the characters but still need time. I'm getting major Ritual vibes with the tree marks and I can already tell that its going to be weird.

The show is about a group of girls on the soccer team that are going to nationals.

We see snippets of the girls' time in the woods and they are all dressed up and covered, makes sense as they are stuck in the winter.

Jackie seems to the star of the show and she is the captain of the football team, she also appears to be the first one to die. She has a necklace and we see a girl with a necklace fall into a trap. The girl is the hung upside down to drain the blood and butchered and eaten by the other girls. Fucking wild.

I thought Shauna was in love with Jackie but it was actually that she wants to sleep with Jackie's boyfriend. Current day Shauna has gotten married and had a child with that same guy. Goddamn! I really thought the way Shauna was looking, she was looking at Jackie and wanting her but in reality it was the guy.

Taisa is pretty cool, in the current day she wants to become some sort of politician. She is using her story of survival in her ad campaign.

Natalie is in rehab and got out and is on some sort of possible murder spree. I'm not sure what she is up to yet.

Misty the ball girl maybe, is a old home's nurse. Interesting. We can already see everyone's characters and roles and its going to be cool to see. It looks like Misty is the girl in a bear mask and she is the one that butchered Jackie.

The school seems cool and seeing the party was nice. I don't know how accurate or inaccurate things are because I didn't grow up in the mid 90s but it feels right. For some reason I have more nostalgia for the stuff like stranger things than this show but we'll see if that changes.

The soccer girls also break one girl's leg and I'm guessing she survives as she probably wasn't on the plane. I also wonder what happened to the ton of people on the plane as everything we see in the woods looks to be a very small group and probably just the girls soccer team.

It looks like Shauna keeps touch with Natalie and Taisia and Taisia seems to be pulling some strings to keep this story about the yellowjackets under wraps. Maybe Shauna was involved in the death of Jackie to get Jeff, the boyfriend.