Yellowjackets Season 3, Episode 9
"How the Story Ends"
Writers: Sarah L. Thompson
Director: Ben Semanoff
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins, Lauren Ambrose, Simone Kessell, Christina Ricci
A house divided against itself cannot stand. Since its inception, the existence ofYellowjackets' dual timelines has been its biggest weakness. Though the stunt casting of beloved actors who cut their teeth as troubled teens in the '90s covered it up for a time, the present-day material, following the lives of the castaways as adults back in civilization, has been dead weight since at least its first zany murder mix-up. As time has passed and we've seen the situation for the teenagers grow more dire, it's been increasingly difficult to square the grim-faced cannibal killers of the past with the whoopsie-daisy-we-killed-someone-again shenanigans of their adult selves. The teenage material remained strong, at least, but the adult stuff has been on the verge of collapsing under its own absurdity for some time.