Review: Yellowjackets, “Old Wounds” | Season 2, Episode 4
Review: Yellowjackets, “Old Wounds” | Season 2, Episode 4
Wheels may still be spinning, but an important rivalry finally comes into focus
A couple weeks back, Yellowjackets co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco made a comment about the decision to finally pull the trigger on people-eating in season two. “We’re not in the business of manipulating the audience for something they already know is coming,” he said. “It didn’t feel satisfying to introduce this concept of ritual cannibalism in the pilot and then make the audience wait to see when they actually cross that Rubicon.”
But while I admire the writers’ choice to get to the point and deliver some on-screen cannibalism in the first two episodes of this season, in other regards these recent episodes have lagged slightly. The most obvious example of this is in the present-day timeline, where the central four survivors from the first season continue to be isolated from one another, not even exchanging phone calls like they often did last year. With the group brought together in the final episodes, there was an opportunity here to continue forward with them as a …