Speaking to TODAY, Yellowjackets executive producers and writers Sarah Thompson and Ameni Rozsa examined how typical coming-of-age experiences — the academic pressures, the cliques, and the hormones — inspired the show’s extreme story arcs.
Season Two of “Yellowjackets” is just as cold and gritty as the first one. Actually, make it colder, grittier … and bloodier, as the plane crashed high schoolers head into winter, and turn to drastic means to survive.
“In Season Two talking about normal teenage problems, but then putting the ‘Yellowjackets’ twist on it,” Thompson explains. “We did talk a lot about just normal teenage things that you go through and then what would that look like — the sort of life and death stakes. Our teenage girls are still having all of these same emotions and feelings, but it’s so much more heightened.”
“We were talking about slumber parties, and a couple of us had experiences,” Thompson recalls. “You know, where you’re with two other girlfriends, and something happens, and then your friends turn on you and then you’re stuck there with them because it’s the middle of the night and you can’t go home.
Yes, they’re in extreme situations. But"Yellowjackets" also simply shows the plate tectonics of a social clique, the writers say. “I got randomly pantsed by a girl I didn’t know on the first day of school in the eighth grade,” she says.
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