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Critic Reviews
Sep 4, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Regrettably, that rule still remains one of the few clear things about the darkly delightful “Yellowjackets,” as Season 3 continues the series’ frustrating habit of spooling out seemingly endless new mysteries without providing answers to the creepy mythology at its core.
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Feb 14, 2025
Season 3 Review:
While it’s admirable to try to serve the sprawling cast by providing separate arcs for Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Lauren Ambrose, and Tawny Cypress, Yellowjackets forgets that a major appeal of this ensemble is what its members get up to together. .... When co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and the rest of their creative team home in on what makes these girls and women tick, maneuvering the characters to reflect the thin line between civility and the feral, Yellowjackets is luscious, immersive, and barbed.
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Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
Season 3 Review:
The adult half of the saga remains too scattered to gain much momentum. The teenage half is more cohesive .... With six episodes still left, there’s plenty of time for the show to swerve into new heights or disappointing dead ends or the vast middle ground in between. But it’s odd that nearly halfway through the season, we seem to still be in the setup phase.
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Nov 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Any attempts to connect the past and present versions of the characters are stymied by the gaping hole in the middle, which after six episodes is still filled only with promises that some future twist will explain everything. The series feels so stuck on the question of what happened that it can’t even begin to think about what it might mean. ... Yellowjackets remains too fun to write off just yet. Its gutsiness sets it apart from the usual survival-drama fare, and its performances suggest a deeper story even if we don’t know what it is quite yet.
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Nov 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Yellowjackets is promising if inessential. Its characters are archetypes, which would be more forgivable in a show that isn't quite so derivative. Regardless, reliable performers like Lynskey and Ricci can't lead us too far astray, and there are enough tantalizing building blocks to ensure the series doesn't crash-land.
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Feb 18, 2025
Season 3 Review:
“Yellowjackets” isn’t quite one show but several of inconsistent quality joined by the flimsy glue of lingering questions that don’t seem all that complicated. What is “it” — “it” being the supposed wilderness terror – and what does “it” want decades after the teens left it? You, the loyal fans, can sit tight and ponder all that for as long as it appeals to you. And me? Um, I gotta go . . . do something.
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Feb 14, 2025
Season 3 Review:
The grown women are still scattered to the four winds, with most attempts to pair them off feeling forced, and they still lack an imperative as urgent as their younger selves’ need to stay alive. .... The paranoia, occult inclinations and regular old teen drama form a combustible powder keg that delivers some of the series’ best scenes to date.
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Feb 13, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Yellowjackets has lost much of its buzz in season 3. While the actors in both timelines are doing their best, the material they’re given doesn’t meet the high standard of quality set by season 1. The lack of connection between the actions of the characters in 1996 and their impact on their 2021 selves also makes the parallel storylines feel so distant as to not even matter anymore.
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Mar 24, 2023
Season 2 Review:
If you are among those passengers who boarded Showtime’s mystery “Yellowjackets” and couldn’t get enough of it, fasten your seat belts for more turbulence in Season 2. As for others unmoved by the slow pace of revelations in the twin-track drama, the first four episodes offer little hope of reaching a clear destination anytime soon.
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Mar 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
There are so many things happening in Yellowjackets at all times that it’s never completely clear which aspects are the distracting sleight of hand and which are the actual magic trick. It’s not mechanically sound, but Yellowjackets is still moving forward. For now.
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Nov 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Yellowjackets looked promising thanks to the casting and concept, but the Showtime series feels like a disappointment in terms of shaping its twin-track plot into an equally compelling drama. The stars still merit a look, but the episodes made available don't provide much incentive for those watching the takeoff to stick around for the landing.
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