Alison Herman TV Critic In the Canadian wilderness where the namesake soccer team of “Yellowjackets” has been stranded for months, it’s finally summer.
Snow has melted; there are leaves on the trees; the abandoned cabin that burned to ash in the Season 2 finale has given way to a makeshift village of wooden lean-tos.
For a group so exposed to the natural world, the change in weather marks a profound shift in the status quo, and for fans of the Showtime drama, the fresh air is both literal and metaphorical.
In the modern-day timeline that takes up half of the series’ screen time, eerily little has changed. Season 2 culminated in the first major death among the adult survivors of a 1990s plane crash and the extended isolation that followed.
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