Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 2 Edible Complex
The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we’ll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. While there may or may not be a dark and powerful force inhabiting the wilderness, their survival could depend upon what they choose to believe. Meanwhile, twenty-five years later, each survivor must ask themselves – Is the darkness coming for them, or is it coming from them?
Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 2
The sick magic trick of Yellowjackets is that its characters are so richly realized that even when they do the most lurid things imaginable, they remain completely relatable somehow. In less capable hands, the visions of horror the show presents every week would be much harder to stomach, or worse, easily dismissible as silly or unbelievable. But all of the ghastly acts are earned, with easy-to-follow character motivations and behaviors that not only make sense, but make all the drama wickedly fun to watch.
“Jackie, I’ll never have another friend like you. I don’t even know where you end and I begin. I’m sorry, and I love you.” When young Shauna says these disquieting words as the party prepares to cremate Jackie at the pyre, it’s clear that she’s being sincere. But that doesn’t change the fact that she sounds somewhat insane, particularly because we just got done watching her literally consume a piece of her best friend 3. Mixing the sick and the sentimental is something the show does well, and watching young Shauna go through all of these…changes…makes for riveting television. Sophie Nelisse does a good job of making Shauna believable, even when the material is at its cheekiest.
Lottie emerging as one of the show’s centers of gravity has been a huge development for the characters in that everyone’s got a strong opinion about her, her methods, and her spirituality, which has heightened the interpersonal drama quite a bit. Travis being so consumed by her influence that he sees her when he finally has sex with Nat for the first time is spicy/weird as hell, and Nat’s decision to lie to him about finding Javi’s pants doesn’t seem to be strengthening their relationship like she intended. And Lottie defending Shauna when Tai calls out her unsettling connection to Jackie’s corpse is yet another way Lottie is disrupting the dynamic of every relationship she touches.
Season Number: 2
Episode Number: 2
Episode Title: Edible Complex
Air Date: Apr 2, 2023
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Source: Yellowjackets.S02E02.1080p.WEB.H264-GGEZ.
