Yellowjackets
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2023 7:21 am
I have a theory that every fun, dark comedy TV show eventually falls prey to the Desparate Housewives syndrome: eventually things get over the top and ridiculous and they run out of people to kill/people who kill that it jumps the shark. That will happen to this show too. But right now I'm halfway through season 2 and I just love this show.
If you don't know the premise- it's about a group of teen soccer players whose plane crashes in a remote, frozen section of Canada while they're on their way to nationals. They're not rescued for many months. Bad things happen in between.
But that's only half the story. The other story is told in present day, 25 years later. And twists and secrets unfold as shit is still hitting the fan in the present.
Melanie Lynskey is a national treasure... for New Zealand... and we're lucky to see her in anything. Her frumpled housewife is a knife-edge dark side is played so perfectly in this series, I just love her.
An interesting pro/con to this series is that the acting by the younger versions of the characters often far surpasses the quality of the acting of the adult actors. Juliette Lewis, in particular, is hard to watch sometimes.
And a final note. How awesome is Christina Ricci? How many things have I seen her in where she plays radically different characters across the spectrum of emotion, quirk and gravitas? It's so cool to see her in roles like this and you don't even think of her- she's so deep in the character that is overpowering.
Love it.
If you don't know the premise- it's about a group of teen soccer players whose plane crashes in a remote, frozen section of Canada while they're on their way to nationals. They're not rescued for many months. Bad things happen in between.
But that's only half the story. The other story is told in present day, 25 years later. And twists and secrets unfold as shit is still hitting the fan in the present.
Melanie Lynskey is a national treasure... for New Zealand... and we're lucky to see her in anything. Her frumpled housewife is a knife-edge dark side is played so perfectly in this series, I just love her.
An interesting pro/con to this series is that the acting by the younger versions of the characters often far surpasses the quality of the acting of the adult actors. Juliette Lewis, in particular, is hard to watch sometimes.
And a final note. How awesome is Christina Ricci? How many things have I seen her in where she plays radically different characters across the spectrum of emotion, quirk and gravitas? It's so cool to see her in roles like this and you don't even think of her- she's so deep in the character that is overpowering.
Love it.