Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
In itsfirst season,Yellowjacketswalked a line as fine as the muscle fibers composing meat grain.
But between its confident willingness to get weird sinister trees, bloody bees, pernicious facsimiles!
and its relatively sure grip on its world-building,Yellowjacketsis making a compelling case for its own longevity.
Certain things that happened in thefirst ten episodesofYellowjacketsare inarguable.
One of the things the show is trying to do is play with the subjectivity of experience.
The season begins with varying time jumps since the events of season-one finaleSic Transit Gloria Mundi.
Increasingly so, yes.
(Adult Van, played by Lauren Ambrose, gets a more measured entrance.)
But Lotties quirkiness threatens to disrupt the ensembles balance, especially compared with the Shauna/Jeff subplot.
Until then,Yellowjackets comfort with being discomforting is to its ongoing benefit, and ours.
