Yellowjackets, the pilot, is an episode of intrigue and introduction and well it does what a pilot is supposed to do, so for that I praise it but there is one major thing that may put me off depending on the coming episodes.
TLDR at the bottom
Yellowjackets follows a girl's football team that crash landed and has been resuced after 25 years of being stranded and the tone they're going for is set right at the start. Yellowjackets opens with the introduction of a snowy landscape and a panicked girl running to her brutal demise. It gave me Game of Thrones opening vibes and it really reeled me in for what the tone of this show was. We then are introduced to our characters, and it seems the narrative of the show will be split into 3 parts: Before the accident, being stranded, after the rescue. It's here where the show seems like it would shine as it shows the contrast between our newly introduced characters, between their younger parts and their current state after being rescued. It's development in the first episode which lures you more into the question "What happened as they survived?" The pilot doesn't really spend much time on what happened after the plane crash but when it does, it lends itself enormously to the mystery. It's something that works for a starting episode, and it does excite me to see what's coming next and seeing their journey's; in particular, Misty's as she goes from being on the side-line of the football team to the leader of what they had become. Due to little time being spent after the crash, the majority of the episode spends its time in 1996 and 2021 taking us through the characters before and after but it seems there was a greater screen time for the 1996 scenes. I really hope they don't continue pushing more of them as teenagers as it really did give a teenage vibe to the whole show. I'm more interested in their 2021 selves and what they do to cover up what they've done and more interested in what happened once they crashed.
The soundtrack in certain scenes was crisp and hauntingly beautiful. As we cut to the first shot of the girls playing a football match with a choral soundtrack in the back gave a sense of uneasiness. We, as the audience, know what will happen to them before the characters know. Contrast seems to be the theme here.
Overall, the episode was great, introduced the characters, created mystery but I fear it will fall into the teenage show vibe in coming episodes. Let's find out.
P. S. It's nice to see a contrast between certain characters, older and younger but we also get to see how the younger parts are still embedded into their older selves regardless to credit to the writers on bridging the gap and making links in the first episode.
TLDR: A good opening but hopefully the tone pushes itself into less teenage vibe.
TLDR at the bottom
Yellowjackets follows a girl's football team that crash landed and has been resuced after 25 years of being stranded and the tone they're going for is set right at the start. Yellowjackets opens with the introduction of a snowy landscape and a panicked girl running to her brutal demise. It gave me Game of Thrones opening vibes and it really reeled me in for what the tone of this show was. We then are introduced to our characters, and it seems the narrative of the show will be split into 3 parts: Before the accident, being stranded, after the rescue. It's here where the show seems like it would shine as it shows the contrast between our newly introduced characters, between their younger parts and their current state after being rescued. It's development in the first episode which lures you more into the question "What happened as they survived?" The pilot doesn't really spend much time on what happened after the plane crash but when it does, it lends itself enormously to the mystery. It's something that works for a starting episode, and it does excite me to see what's coming next and seeing their journey's; in particular, Misty's as she goes from being on the side-line of the football team to the leader of what they had become. Due to little time being spent after the crash, the majority of the episode spends its time in 1996 and 2021 taking us through the characters before and after but it seems there was a greater screen time for the 1996 scenes. I really hope they don't continue pushing more of them as teenagers as it really did give a teenage vibe to the whole show. I'm more interested in their 2021 selves and what they do to cover up what they've done and more interested in what happened once they crashed.
The soundtrack in certain scenes was crisp and hauntingly beautiful. As we cut to the first shot of the girls playing a football match with a choral soundtrack in the back gave a sense of uneasiness. We, as the audience, know what will happen to them before the characters know. Contrast seems to be the theme here.
Overall, the episode was great, introduced the characters, created mystery but I fear it will fall into the teenage show vibe in coming episodes. Let's find out.
P. S. It's nice to see a contrast between certain characters, older and younger but we also get to see how the younger parts are still embedded into their older selves regardless to credit to the writers on bridging the gap and making links in the first episode.
TLDR: A good opening but hopefully the tone pushes itself into less teenage vibe.