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Yellowjackets
You can leave the woods. The woods don't always leave you. 🐝
Who it's for
The dual timeline, teenagers stranded after a 1996 plane crash and the same women 25 years later, shows directly how unprocessed trauma carries into adulthood through addiction, secrecy, strained marriages and dissociation.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Yellowjackets is a drama created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson that premiered on Showtime in 2021. In 1996, a New Jersey high school girls' soccer team survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness and is stranded for nineteen months.
Where to find it
Showtime original; streams on Paramount+ with Showtime (also licensed to Netflix in some regions). Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Suicide and graphic cannibalism.
Age: TV-MA (suggested 18+)
What's done cannot be undone.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
