“Yellowjackets” is a series you might think you’ve seen before.
Feature films like “Alive” and “Lord of the Flies” have shown what happens when people, especially children, are stranded in an isolated location and turn to the darker side of living off the land.
Even Amazon Prime Video’s “The Wilds,” released earlier this year, has a similar situation of teen girls surviving a plane crash.
But none of them are quite like what creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have done with “Yellowjackets.”Set in 1996, the Yellowjackets are a high school girls soccer team whose success at the game gives them a bid at Nationals.
Unfortunately, their plane crashes into an unknown wilderness, leaving the girls to survive on their own.
Stranded in the woods for 19 months, the few who returned have all gone wildly different paths, but it’s clear that what happened in the woods might run deep into their blood.
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