The encrypted channel is airing ten new episodes of the hit American series starting tonight at 9 p.m.
1996, the private plane carrying high school girls from New Jersey to take part in a football championship crashes in a remote corner of Canada’s mountains. The survivors will have to face the hostility of the places for nineteen months before being saved.
We find the survivors of this second ordeal twenty-five years later. Four women forever marked by this nightmare and who try again and again to rebuild themselves, each in their own way: Shauna (Sophie Nélisse/Melanie Lynskey), best friend of the captain of the deceased team, now married to the former little friend of this one; Natalie (Sophie Thatcher/Juliet Lewis), eternal rebel, punk and junkie; Misty (Samantha Hanratty/Christina Ricci), the excluded who revealed himself during the catastrophe; Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown/Tawny Cypress), a born competitor turned ambitious politician…
Neither free nor overpriced
Always built on two temporalities, this season 2 of Yellowjackets continue, methodically, to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Impossible to go into details, as the narrative richness of these now 20 × 52 minutes is great. Mix of genres, chronic way Desperate Housewives to the survival movie, through the thriller, the supernatural or the horror, the series wins on all fronts.
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No gratuity or overbidding since each element finds a justification in the psychological impact of these long months spent suffering from hunger and cold, faced with the death of loved ones. This season, it will be about blackmail, addiction, murder, sect, mysticism… With new faces: Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings ) as an amateur detective and Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under ) in that of Van, Taissa’s adult lover. Not all the expected answers will be given since a season 3 has already been announced. Let’s hope that the authors will be keen not to pull too much on the string even if this post-traumatic syndrome can only be that of a lifetime.