Yellowjackets (2021)

Name: Yellowjackets
Rating: 7.5

TV-MA — Mature Audiences

Rating: 7.5

IMDb

Synopsis

This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

First Air Date: 2021-11-14

Last Air Date: 2025-04-13

Number of Seasons: 4

Number of Episodes: 29

Created By: Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson

Networks: Showtime, Paramount+ with Showtime

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Top Cast

Melanie Lynskey as Shauna Sadecki
Tawny Cypress as Taissa Turner
Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna Shipman
Jasmin Savoy Brown as Teen Taissa Turner
Sophie Thatcher as Teen Natalie Scatorccio
Sammi Hanratty as Teen Misty Quigley
Warren Kole as Jeff Sadecki
Courtney Eaton as Teen Lottie Matthews
Christina Ricci as Misty Quigley
Kevin Alves as Teen Travis

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A thriving high school girls soccer squad is left stranded in the northern wilderness after a plane crash and descend into savage clans, where survival becomes even more important than the team.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Pilot (2021-11-14)

On the eve of a fateful flight, a championship high school girls soccer squad celebrates being a team by betraying one another. 25 years later, the survivors do their best imitations of well-adjusted people.
Ep. 2: F Sharp (2021-11-21)

As the teens get their bearings among the wreckage, Misty finds hell on earth quite becoming. In the present: revenge, sex homework and the policeman formerly known as Goth.
Ep. 3: The Dollhouse (2021-11-28)

The Yellowjackets debate the merits of probably dying while staying put or probably dying while looking for shelter. Taissa navigates a dirty attack ad and the other C-word. Shauna sees about a boy.
Ep. 4: Bear Down (2021-12-05)

The girls play with guns to determine who is the most responsible. Natalie untangles a lifetime of piecing together broken men. Taissa greets the rich.
Ep. 5: Blood Hive (2021-12-12)

Out in the wilderness, the girls ride the crimson wave and plan a dark arts slumber party. Natalie and Misty tame a stallion. On Halloween night, Shauna parties like it’s 1996.
Ep. 6: Saints (2021-12-19)

The Yellowjackets tangle with the birds & the bees, navigating love, lust and DIY surgery. In the present : blackmail, bunnies and an icy reunion. Misty prepares for a surprise(d) houseguest.
Ep. 7: No Compass (2021-12-26)

As starvation looms, Taissa leads a last-ditch effort and/or suicide mission. Amid felony schemes and all-night stakeouts, the Yellowjackets are forced to commit small talk.
Ep. 8: Flight of the Bumblebee (2022-01-02)

What is madness and what is divine? While in triage after a vicious attack, the Yellowjackets are left to suss out the best of their worst ideas. Shauna dabbles in some light cyberstalking.
Ep. 9: Doomcoming (2022-01-09)

You are cordially invited to The Doomcoming. On the brink of death, the Yellowjackets opt to throw one last rager before careening into oblivion. An increasingly paranoid Shauna struggles between keeping her cool and being Shauna.
Ep. 10: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (2022-01-16)

On the night of their 25-year class reunion, the Yellowjackets navigate damning evidence, false alibis and a dubious attempt to “heal.” In the wilderness, the Doomcoming fallout finds everything firmly off the rails as simmering resentments come to a head. Season finale.