It’s happening again… but the trailer for the upcoming season of Showtime’s Yellowjackets is carefully vague about what exactly “it” is. Misty (Christina Ricci) doesn’t want to cry. Natalie (Juliette Lewis) is trying to remember. And there’s a very recognizable new face on the scene!
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Yep, Frodo Baggins himself turns up, because we are casting all the ’90s stars in this delicious flashback-riddled series. Elijah Wood gets the summarizing statement of the trailer when he says to Misty, “Kidnapping. Cults. Death. Your friendships are a little more… complicated than most.”
That’s putting it mildly. Yellowjackets is about a group of women who, as teens, survived a harrowing plane crash, but not easily, and not without a lot of resulting trauma—trauma that is still relevant twenty-five years later. The adult versions are played by a who’s-who of ’90s actresses, including Ricci, Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, and (for season two) Lauren Ambrose; the teen cast includes Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Ella Purnell, and Liv Hewson. Elijah Wood joins as “a dedicated Citizen Detective.”
The show is created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, who worked together on Narcos and The Originals. It also has an incredible pair of composers, if you are into that sort of thing (by which I mean ’90s indie rock): That Dog’s Anna Waronker and Shudder to Think’s Craig Wedren.
Yellowjackets returns on March 24th.
