Yellowjackets: Pilot

November 15, 2021 8:12 AM - Season 1, Episode 1

On the eve of a fateful flight, a championship high school girls soccer team celebrates by betraying one another. 25 years later, the survivors do their best imitations of well-adjusted people. Season premiere.

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posted by everybody had matching towels (9 comments total)

TV Line recap: "Showtime’s new drama, Yellowjackets, teaches us that the high-school-girls’-athletics-to-brutal-survivalist-strategy pipeline might not be as long as we’d think."

TV Line - Meet the Yellowjackets: Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress Talk Showtime Survival Drama

Variety - ‘Yellowjackets’ Bosses on Threading the Effects of Trauma Through Multiple Timelines
posted by oh yeah! at 4:37 PM on November 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

I watched the pilot last night - I think this is too grim for me, especially as the last show I'd watch on a Sunday night. (Obviously, I could just save the recording and make it the first thing I watch on some other day and follow it up with something lighter, but, I don't know, I think this one just isn't for me.)
posted by oh yeah! at 5:38 PM on November 15, 2021

Karyn Kusama was such an inspired choice to direct this pilot.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:04 AM on December 3, 2021

Fantastic pilot (heh, pilot). I had heard great things about the show, but even if I hadn't, this would have hooked me from the start. I can see how it might be too grim, but I've been watching a lot of Bake Off and Ted Lasso over the holidays, so I'm ready for something like this.
posted by Rock Steady at 12:37 PM on January 10, 2022

That's the best pilot episode I've seen in a long time. I'm intrigued and will be giving it a watch. As someone who's very, very bad at recognizing faces, I appreciate that they're making an effort to clearly communicate who is who when they're linking the flashbacks and present day.
posted by LegallyBread at 7:39 AM on January 21, 2022 [1 favorite]

Love the show, don't get me wrong, but....19 months? The previous record for surviving place crash in Canada is 58 days, and that was back in 1967.

I assume this will be answered in future episodes, but BC and Alberta aren't exactly the surface of Mars. Even without active SAR, there are people living and working in the Rockies that you'd think would stumble over the crash site at some point.
posted by Mogur at 4:52 AM on February 4, 2022 [4 favorites]

Arg. ...surviving plane crash...
posted by Mogur at 5:00 AM on February 4, 2022

I was thinking the same thing. Planes file flight plans, people go missing, there's a lot of territory up there but not THAT much territory. If nobody finds me after a week I'd already be making plans to follow water downstream until I find civilization.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:09 PM on February 18, 2022 [1 favorite]

Found this on Roku (Pluto?) last night and really liked it. It teased out enough starting points and I tend to like things that jump around in time. I'm not expecting it to hew to reality so much as tell an interesting story, and I'm here for it.
posted by rhizome at 4:19 PM on September 8, 2023 [1 favorite]