Good Bye to All That: Yellowjackets S1

This month on Good Bye To All That, Michael T. Ford III is joined
by Pop Break contributor and Screen Mavericks
Podcast co-host Megan LaBruna to
discuss the Showtime series Yellowjackets, which follows a team
of high school soccer players whose plane crashes deep in the
wilderness in 1996, where they are left to survive for nineteen
months, while also telling the story of the survivors' lives 25
years later, in 2021.


Show topics include:


- The show's portrayal of the complexity and the depth of
adolescent female relationships and dynamics.


- The excellence of the main leads, both in the past and present,
as portrayed by Melanie Lynskey and Sophie Nélisse, Tawny Cypress
and Jasmin Savoy Brown, Juliette Lewis and Sophie Thatcher, and
Christina Ricci and Sammi Hanratty.


- Our love/ hate relationship with Misty.


- Natalie and Travis' tragic romance.


- Jackie and Shauna's friendship, and Shauna and Jeff's
relationship, and the way each respective relationship evolved
across the ten episodes.


- The show's role as spiritual successor to Lost, as well as its
obvious Lord of the Flies influences.


- Unsung or underrated characters from the current season, and
potentially going forward.


- Some of our favorite theories, particularly involving Lottie
and her cult.


- Whether we'd like to see the show remain grounded in realism,
or take a supernatural turn.


You can follow host Michael T. Ford III on
Twitter and check out his Racial Draft
Podcast and various MCU review podcasts on the Racial
Draft Podcast Network. Also, check out his written review of
Marvel's Eternals over on Murphy's Multiverse!