There are double standards and the impossible pressure to be pretty but not slutty, smart but not too smart.
(As Karyn Kusama, who directed the Yellowjackets pilot, told the New York Times, “The plane never even had to crash for things to get quite dark, potentially, between everybody.”) There are leering older men, boys who have never been properly educated about consent, and all the awful statistics they contribute to. There are cliques and tricky group dynamics and the brutal, cutting way in which girls can eviscerate one another with just a word. The truth is, even without being stranded in the woods, so much of being a teen girl is about survival.
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It’s a more layered amount of preconceived notions of how to behave and act.” It’s a more interesting way of having things fall away. “We thought, who is more socialized than women? As girls, you learn early on how to make people like you and what the social hierarchies are.
“ Lord of the Flies is about how socialization falls away and how society is a facade,” Lyle recently told The Hollywood Reporter. What becomes of Jackie, the popular-but-bossy team captain Van, Taissa’s girlfriend who barely survives being mauled by a wolf or Lottie, the schizophrenic who starts seeing and hearing things after she runs out of her meds? We’ll have to keep watching to find out. Taissa (Tawny Cypress) is running for state Senate by day while sleep-walking into trees, eating dirt and generally freaking out her family at night. Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), who slept with her best friend Jackie’s boyfriend Jeff just before leaving on their fateful trip, is now married to Jeff and living the life of an unsatisfied housewife. Misty (Christina Ricci), the dorky outcast with a surprisingly vast knowledge of first aid and survival techniques, is now a creepy nurse in an old folks’ home who likes to spy on people via hidden cameras. There’s Natalie (Juliette Lewis), who has spent the 25 years since her time in the woods in and out of rehab as she uses booze and drugs to try to suppress the memories of what she saw and did out there. We don’t know who the Antler Queen is or who gets eaten, but we do know who has an adult counterpart in the 2021 timeline and who doesn’t. We don’t know who the leader of this tribe of cannibals is - she’s masked and sporting a crown of antlers - nor do we know who was the main course, but the implication is that this wasn’t so much the kind of cannibalism where a group of starving individuals eat the already-dead bodies of their peers because they have no other choice as it was some kind of ritualistic murder. The first episode opens with an unidentified girl being chased through the forest before eventually falling into a spear trap and being hung from her ankles, gutted and consumed by a group of girls dressed in animal pelts. And what exactly happened? We don’t really know that’s part of what makes the show so compelling. Yellowjackets takes place in two different timelines - in 1996, where a high-school girls’ soccer team is stranded in the Canadian wilderness for 19 grueling months after the plane that was supposed to take them to nationals crashes, and in 2021, where the survivors are still coping with the trauma of what happened during those 19 months in the wild. (Her response? “You were never a teenage girl, sir.”) It inspired her to make her own “female Lord of the Flies,” and the result is one of the most compelling dramas currently on TV. That “collaborate to death” comment in particular stuck with Yellowjackets creator Ashley Lyle. That project never got off the ground, probably at least partly due to audiences’ refusal to accept that a group of girls could be capable of the savagery depicted in the book. “What are they going to do?” one man wrote in the comments section of an article announcing the film. Warning: This post contains major spoilers for episodes 1 through 9 of Yellowjackets.īack in 2017, it was announced that a gender-swapped adaptation of William Golding’s classic novel Lord of the Flies - one that would feature a group of girls slowly descending into chaos while stranded together on an island - was in the works, and the internet mockery was swift.
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