![]() ![]() In addition to the standard BuzzFeed meme roundups, the show has spawned exuberant fan fiction and forums that include suggested paper topics (“ ‘Yellowjackets’: Yellow Wallpaper for the 21st Century”) and frenzied theories about what, exactly, the Yellowjackets did in the woods. ![]() ![]() The show has become a sensation, garnering five million viewers per week, making it Showtime’s second-most-streamed show ever. Thus “Yellowjackets,” Showtime’s hit drama, answered, in the second episode of its second season, the question teased throughout its first: What and whom are these girls going to eat? Named for a New Jersey high school girls’ soccer team whose plane crashes in the Canadian Rockies en route to the 1996 national championships, “Yellowjackets” toggles between the team’s 19-month sojourn in the wilderness and the present day, when the surviving members struggle with the aftereffects of what happened to them. One of the girls stands near the charred flesh, knife in hand. They surround her corpse, girl-shaped but foodlike, like a pig from the barbecue pit. Outside, their friend, whose body they tried to cremate last night, has turned into smoked meat. Their noses twitching in the air, they leave their thin blankets and head out into the snowy wild in socks and insufficient clothes. In a cabin in the wilderness, a group of starving teenage girls, a teenage boy and one adult man wake to an unfamiliar smell. ![]()
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