When we first see her, she is fleeing from her abusive and alcoholic boyfriend with their young daughter, which leads her down a path of nightmare bureaucracy, as she tries to find both accommodation for the two of them and a job that might allow her to pay the bills. Margaret Qualley plays Alex, a young woman living in the US Pacific Northwest and struggling to get a footing in society. Which is what made this Netflix limited series, an adaptation of Stephanie Land's bestselling memoir about her life as a single mother on the breadline, so welcome. Available on Sky/Now TV in the UK and on Showtime in the US.Īmid TV's ongoing obsession with the lives of the super-rich or aspirationally affluent, it hardly needs saying that not enough attention is paid to those on the other end of the socio-economic spectrum: the have-nots rather than the haves. And unlike Lost, which of course lost the plot as it went on, I have a feeling some satisfactory – if nasty – answers are coming. Many critics have compared it to Lost, and it certainly shares the narrative lure of that series, but it is also very much its own beast, as well as a gleefully perverse nostalgia-hit for many millennials, with its 1990s-rock soundtrack and casting of some of that era's spikiest young stars Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis among the grown-up versions of the characters. And then in the present day, we catch up with some of those survivors, now in their 40s, as they are forced to reckon with exactly what happened all those years ago. In the mid-1990s, a plane containing a girls' high-school soccer team from New Jersey crashes in the Canadian wilderness, leading to Lord of the Flies-style power battles among the stranded survivors. A horror-meets-black-comedy-meets-teen-drama, it tells a split-timeline story, with both parts full of intrigue. It's a risky endeavour putting a show on the "best of the year" list when only half of its first season has aired so far – and yet, however it pans out, Yellowjackets is a show that already demands recognition for its verve, style and ferocity.
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