Yellowjackets

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Season 2
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Sep 10, 2024
    60
    Yellowjackets doesn’t always hit form but, when it does, dread is served threefold: what’s happening, what already happened and what might happen next.
  2. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Nick Hilton
    Mar 24, 2023
    60
    Fine work by Lysnkey and Lewis, particularly, will always elevate Yellowjackets from much of the televisual pack, but there’s no doubting that this return to its dog-eat-dog world represents a loss of momentum.
  3. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Mar 23, 2023
    60
    The show can be very dark – figuratively and literally – but it’s lightened by performances from Nineties screen queens Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis.
  5. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Mar 24, 2023
    50
    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.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Mar 21, 2023
    50
    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.

Awards & Rankings

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#58 Best TV Season of 2023
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#61 Most Discussed TV Season of 2023

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User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 20
  3. Negative: 4 out of 20
  1. OlivierPiel
    Mar 25, 2023
    0
    jumped the shark far too early on season 1, and now it's gone full of supernatural nonsense, dei ex machinae and/or clichés.
  2. JLuis_001
    May 27, 2023
    5
    One thing that became clear after the first two episodes of this new season is that the writers were going to start dragging things out beforeOne thing that became clear after the first two episodes of this new season is that the writers were going to start dragging things out before tackling the narrative complexities they developed in the first season.

    For that reason Yellowjackets lost a lot of steam in its second season and its finale was very weak compared to the first.

    Too much preamble to address the violence and darkness they explored in the first 10 episodes.

    They're going straight down the Lost path. And we all know how that ended.

    This second entry wasn't an outright disappointing, but it fell far short of what it promised. Very far.    … Full Review »
  3. emmaek
    Mar 24, 2023
    8
    A stellar star to a really incredible series. I'm hoping by the end this 8 feels more like a 9, but I can tell the series has the potential.A stellar star to a really incredible series. I'm hoping by the end this 8 feels more like a 9, but I can tell the series has the potential. It's all about Lynskey!… Full Review »
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