Watch psychological horror, Yellowjackets – KBC

Fun, drama-filled and horrifying.

Yellowjackets, named Best Horror at the 2022 Critics’ Choice Super Awards, is now available to binge on Showmax. The show features Melanie Lynsky (Don’t Look Up), Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers) and Emmy nominee Christina Ricci (The Matrix Resurrections)

“Yellowjackets” tells the narrative of a team of wildly talented high-school girls soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while also tracking the lives they have attempted to piece back together.

Equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama, Yellowjackets has a 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes and became the second most-streamed series in Showtime’s history (topped only by Dexter: New Blood). Yellowjackets was also nominated for both Best Drama Series and Best New Series at the 2022 Writers Guild of America Awards. 

Yellowjackets has drawn comparisons to Lord of the Flies, Lost, Desperate Housewives and even Mean Girls, but creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson were most influenced by the ordeal endured by the survivors of the real-life 1972 Andes flight disaster (which also inspired the films Alive and The Donner Party). That makes it surprisingly relatable right now, in the third year of a global pandemic. In an interview with The Guardian, speaking about the show’s success, Lynsky says, “I wonder if we’ve all just gone through this collective trauma and everyone’s feeling a bit shaken up and they don’t really know how to put the pieces back together. This plane crash and these people surviving – I feel like people are interested in that. I think people can relate to that kind of general feeling right now. But,” she adds, “I also just think it’s fun.”

PS/- If you’re loving the mystery, stay off the web. The show’s renewal for a second season (yes, please!) has the internet buzzing again, and fan theories, post-mortems and spoilers are everywhere.

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