{"id":32565,"date":"2023-04-28T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T12:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1824025"},"modified":"2023-04-28T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T19:05:06","slug":"yellowjackets-season-2-needs-to-move-away-from-the-supernatural","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/yellowjackets-season-2-needs-to-move-away-from-the-supernatural\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowjackets season 2 needs to move away from the supernatural"},"content":{"rendered":"

The show’s follow-up chapter is losing its way. <\/p>

By Molly Moss\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 28 April 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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By introducing two primary timelines <\/span>\u2013<\/span> a girls\u2019 football team stranded in the wilderness in 1996 and the surviving members as adults in 2021 <\/span>\u2013<\/span> Yellowjackets season 1 established the show\u2019s central mystery: why are they still haunted by what happened all these years later? What really<\/em> happened out there? <\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the first instalment, supernatural elements encouraged fans to speculate: viewers saw an anonymous figure hunted and killed for their flesh by a tribe donning animal skins; there were mysterious etchings in the woods and in the cabin; and Lottie had visions suggesting a supernatural entity was demanding bloodshed. <\/span>But it was never entirely clear what was fuelling the \u201cparanormal force\u201d in the wilderness.<\/span><\/p>\n

The occult was just one strand of the show\u2019s ambitious array of styles, which include horror, coming-of-age drama, dark comedy and survivalist epic.<\/span><\/p>