In Yellowjackets, Female Friendship Is Horrific

Photo: Paul Sarkis/SHOWTIME The opening sequence of Showtime’s Yellowjackets is peculiar and horrifying. A teen girl in a flimsy gown runs through the desolate wilderness. It’s winter. Bone ornaments and amulets hang from the branches; girls and animals vocalize from the trees. This is a hunt, and the girl, who is prey, falls into a trap.

I’ll admit that I’m a big fan of television that centers female friendship. Pen15, Dollface, The Bold Type, Insecure — it’s all catnip to me. These shows are part of a wave of television that conceptualizes female friendship as a loving and generative space, as havens from the outside world. Even shows about women committing communal transgressions — think Big Little Lies— can guarantee a warm friendship plot.

Spoilers ahead, but my favorite anti-friendship on this show is that of teen Jackie and Shauna. Shauna is one of the present-day survivors; a housewife who lives on mute, and is frequently haunted by visions of teen Jackie. In 1996, Jackie was the team captain of the Yellowjackets. Pretty and popular, ordinary but influential, with a vanilla-bean homecoming-king boyfriend, she’s coded as the outmoded Queen Bee who peaks in her teens.

As an adult, Shauna carries the guilt of whatever happened to Jackie. As part of her overblown, teenaged penance, she lives out Jackie’s life as it would have been: ordinary and unexceptional. As part of her penance, Shauna attends an annual birthday brunch at Jackie’s parents’ house. In one unsettling tuna-quiche scene, Jackie’s mother likens the two girls to those in the Ferrante books. It’s a chilling comparison, maybe because we so strongly associate the Neapolitan novels with girlhood love.

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