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The questions that “Yellowjackets” gives its character are the ones that are the ones Original launching document of the series described as the conduct issues of history:
“What are we capable of when our darkest impulses receive not only a voice, but also a stage from which to use it? Who, exactly, is once the mask is eliminated? And you can really return once you have seen what is underneath?”
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The chorus of the series opening theme is “Without return, without reason.” Do you remember, also on the pilot, when the Yellowjackets literally wore animal masks during hunting and the feast of their boxes because they had become wild? In the desert, those masks became their true faces, and the human faces they use in the present are just another layer of masks.
The past and the present bind this episode even better because Melissa is beginning to become more than Shauna’s arm. Melissa wants go home; Kodiak shot him by the shoulder with a Ballesta bolt in “Croak”, which must have remembered how painful and dangerous the desert can be.
The title of the episode sounds harder because “a normal boring life” is What Shauna ends up living, or at least one facsimile of her. She was miserable at the beginning of season 1. Do you remember when she killed and cooked a rabbit from her patio, on a sign that her butcher being still lived inside her? He took someone for her and Jeff (Warren Kole) to revive their marriage. Based on what we have seen, Melissa is the only Yellowjacket that has really found a normal life, and that is what she is fighting to protect. Being absent so far does not undermine the credibility of the program as I feared; Once again it shows that the Yellowjackets are cursed.
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Shauna, although determined that Melissa No change. At the end of the episode, Shauna bites a piece of Melissa’s arm and feeds it. Shauna is still the girl who went crazy and ate her best friend, and wants Melissa to know she can never No Being a cannibal either.
The “Yellowjackets” season 3 had a slow beginning, but episode 6, “Thanksgiving (Canada)”, was one of the best episodes of the program and a photo in the arm that “croak” and “A Normal Boring Life” have followed. With luck, this season you can hit the landing better than the Yellowjackets flight!
“Yellowjackets” is broadcast on Paramount+ with showtime, with new episodes that are released on Fridays.
