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By embracing resilience, the show's deeply human characters remind us of the right to exist without justification

The drawn-out mystery still bumbles along as before, which makes us wonder if it knows where it's going

Karyn Kusama, who directed the show's pilot, returns to helm the final episode of Yellowjackets season 2, and it's a fitting choice. The events of this episode see us come full circle, in a way, from where we started – except it's Yellowjackets, so it's not quite that simple. 

BYOB at the sharing shack

Wander where you may, just leave Bruce the goat out of it

As episode 7 kicks off, morale in the wilderness has never been lower. The girls are still starving, and Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) is – understandably – at rock bottom, traumatized in the wake of her miscarriage and eschewing all attempts to help her. Is this slightly undermined by a needle…

Golding didn't see a place for women in savagery back in 1954. This show would have proven him very wrong.

"Hell is a teenage girl." That's what the opening line of Jennifer's Body, the 2009 horror-comedy directed by Yellowjackets executive producer Karyn Kusama, reminds us. But what about a group of teenage girls stranded in the Canadian wilderness as an unforgiving winter sets in, with death, hunger, and remorse hanging…

In its bold Season 2 premiere, Showtime's 'Yellowjackets' proves that it still knows how to use needle drops better than just about every other show on TV right now.