Summer Slack Streaming - Yellowjackets - Season One

How did I sleep on Yellowjackets?

Starring an all star cast, with a few familiar faces. Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Sammi Hanratty, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton as a group of teenagers involved in a plane crash in 1996, with Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Lauren Ambrose, and Simone Kessell portraying their adult counterparts. 

The show first landed on Showtime on November 14, 2021. However I binged all ten episodes of the first season ahead of season two landing, March 26, 2023 alongside Succession season four! Now that's a big Sunday night of TV. Move over MAFS!

Yellowjackets has received seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series and acting nominations for Lynskey and Ricci. 

Late 2022, the series was renewed for a third season. This is positive news ahead of Showtime plus Paramount+ merging in the near future!

So the basic plot to the ten episode first run is. In 1996, a team of New Jersey high school girls’ soccer players travel to Seattle for a national tournament. While flying over Canada, their plane crashes deep in the wilderness and the surviving team members are left stranded for nineteen months. The series chronicles their attempts to stay alive while also tracking their current lives in 2021.

This was a total BO$$ show. I was hooked from episode one! So good!

With two more seasons on the way I am so happy to be on the Yellowjackets plane. Quality Showtime viewing. Maybe their best series in a long while.