With “Yellowjackets”, soft horror and black humor have fun

In a large pataquès of mysteries and dead, the series Yellowjackets succeeds in putting a layer in this third season. Imperfections, but the recipe is effective.

Broadcast since June 26 on Canal+ (two after the previous one), every Thursday, the third season proves that Yellowjackets Growed up and gaining momentum in savagery, in well -packaged black humor.

After a first round to tickle our endolris memories after so long to wait for the continuation (almost two years and a scriptwriter strike in Hollywood), this new salvo is advancing for its exam.

It’s time to take stock.

The adolescent girls, tilted in the middle of the forest and this rampant uncertainty after their air crash, continue to get around in the woods. Far from all civilization, they have not finished fighting to live, feeling the cold of winter whipping them. They now have to organize, deal with the desires of domination of both, far from social norms and the authority of adults.

We then think back to this series, The Society (2019) on Netflix, unjustly arrested, which takes the same paths of social reflections.

In this season 3, it’s open-bar: the series decides to put a good pinch of violence. Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), Taissa (Tawn Cypress), Misty (Christina Ricci) only have a choice to cross their memories, feel the soul of the forest. The reality is kneaded and jostled in the minds of the survivors. And the more the series searches, the more the reality takes on the appearance of a trip under anxiolytic.

At the end of season 2, the young Callie (Sarah Desjardins), Shauna’s daughter, had taken death in the face, that of Natalie (Juliette Lewis). She understood that not very pretty things had taken place in this famous forest; That his mother is not an angel, but rather a warrior – or a queen.

The violence in the center

These fifteen months of forced loneliness and learning sacrificial rites have left large traces on souls and bodies. Yellowjackets persevere in the register by adapting His Majesty of Moucheswhile injecting from this dose of supernatural as had grabbed Lost.

The series, thought by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, gets rid of all his teenage varnish a bit leaning to better probe the savagery which is going in the middle of this band of lost teenagers.

This third season also unmolds a kind of large eight of transmission, between Shauna and her daughter Callie, but also between the Shauna Ado and the adult Shauna. The trajectory of this character is the most dazzling, the most explosive, thanks to a tandem of actresses at the top of their form: Sophie Nélisse, in the teen version, and Melanie Lynskey, in the mother version.

This same parallel for each of the characters, between teens and adults, is one of the best advantages of the show. Van, Shauna, Misty or Tai carries memories and build this frame of a past impossible to bury. So much so that another comes to unearth the old demons to sow discord: Melissa, played by Hilary Swank, a central character who arrives late in history

Melissa, a Shauna teenage flirt, works like a ghost train, reviving the old specters of a past that grips your face to make you spit your deepest nightmares.

Nebula memories unmolded by a cohort of actresses admirably embodying the discomfort and the injuries of the past, sometimes on the edge of madness.

If the script seems a disorderly hair, the cliffhanger is linked, there is a real depth in each of the characters, leaving the reprobate feelings.

Unanswered questions

The most skeptical will say that the ten episodes leave many responses suspended, and rightly. Certainly, they can annoy the spectator on the way to the good understanding of history. Pêle-male: Who buted the fire at the cabin at the end of last season? Was the sabotage of the brakes of Shauna’s car really a coincidence or a deliberate act?

Even if some bad pieces of the puzzle can cause sighs, they are only pituitary as there is real generosity in writing; A real cocktail of black humor, drama and soft horror.

Yellowjackets improves in this third season, generating a form of excitement and grip that splash the series aficionados.

Far from the forest and the spirits that have flooded young brains, to the repeated hallucinations, there is a form that takes shape in this cloud of conifers with evil accents. Imprisoned in this quagmire, teens chopped this forest until it released the savagery which was sleeping in them.

This air crash only woke up the avenging characters and pests of these teens before seeing them age with their traumas. The return to normal life, once adolescence behind, has the effect of a strongly dosed sedative. Once the effect is attenuated, nature takes over.

“Yellowjackets” (season 3) is to be viewed on the MyCanal platform.