Opinion: Second-half of “Yellowjackets” falls off

“Yellowjackets” is a horror television series that follows a high school soccer team on their way to nationals. The plane ends up crashing and they have no idea where they are and are forced to survive on their own. This results in the team eating each other, one by one. It has a timeline during the crash and while the girls are in high school and another timeline with the ones that have survived as adults. 

While the first half of “Yellowjackets” seemed promising, it quickly went off the rails during the second half. The characters are getting progressively worse and unlikable. The audience is not going to feel any more sympathy for these characters. 

Shauna played by Sophie Nélisse (“The Book Thief”) and Melanie Lynskey (“Sweet Home Alabama”) has become one the worst television show characters to ever exist. She’s on the list with Dawson Leery from “Dawson’s Creek”, Ginny from “Ginny and Georgia” and Dan Scott from “One Tree Hill”. In fact, most of the characters in “Yellowjackets” would make it on this list. 

“Yellowjackets” also keeps killing off all of the adult characters. They are down to only three characters that had survived the wilderness, four if you include Melissa, who was thought to have been dead. 

Season four will probably introduce a new adult character that had survived the wilderness that nobody knew about since they’ve done that every season. Season one introduced the main survivors. Season two brought back Lottie and Van. Season three brought back Melissa. Somebody else will probably end up being alive. 

They still didn’t answer what happened to Crystal. Misty causes Crystal to fall off a cliff and she is thought to be dead. Later, Misty goes back and Crystal’s body is gone. All of this happened in season two and there still was not a resolution to this plotline in season three. 

The fact that they all had the opportunity to go home and they all sabotaged it just because Shauna said they are staying is one of the worst plot lines in television. If Shauna wants to stay, let her stay. Everyone else can go home. But instead, everyone just said “well, okay then. I guess we’re staying.” 

If there is a season four, they have some serious work to do to make up for season three.