Despite the cannibalistic trappings of “Yellowjackets,” the Showtime drama is mainly a study of female friendship.
,” cannibalism is preordained, both for the characters and for the viewers. The series, about a high-school girls’ soccer team stranded in the Canadian wilderness, has been building toward this turn since the very first episode, which reeled in audiences with its ominous flash-forwards of an unidentified young woman being chased into a spike-filled trap, then ritualistically eaten.
In its most recent cinematic depictions, cannibalism has been treated not as an unthinkable transgression but variously as a fetish , an identity , and a girlboss revenge fantasy . Increasingly often, it seems, the fictional practitioners are women whose cannibalistic hunger is connected to other bodily appetites.
It is partly Shauna’s fault that Jackie eventually freezes to death; after the two get into a fight, Jackie sleeps outside, and in the morning the group discovers that she died of hypothermia. The first episode of the second season explores Shauna’s psychological deterioration in the wake of this unexpected and needless loss. Jackie’s corpse, frozen and still intact, has been moved to a shed, where Shauna visits and has conversations with her, as if the captain were still kicking.
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