You have to snort a bit of, cry a bit of, till the ritualistic cannibalism rolls by a bit of. That is the story of, that is the glory of Yellowjackets.

In case you missed it, Yellowjackets Seasons 1 and 2 are linked by considered one of cinema’s most iconic tales of affection and lengthy friendship, with a number of references to the eternally tearjerking film Seashores.

Starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong associates CC Bloom and Hillary Whitney, Seashores was launched in 1988, eight years earlier than the Yellowjackets’ aircraft crashed within the wilderness in 1996. A story of difficult finest friendship over a lifetime, the movie sees a number of parallels with Yellowjackets: from Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) and Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) deeply aggressive relationship to Misty (Samantha Hanratty) and Crystal’s (Nuha Jes Izman) rising bond as social outcasts. However Yellowjackets additionally contains direct references to the Seashores script and soundtrack, so let’s dive in.

Yellowjackets Season 1 references Seashores within the finale.

“Are you quoting ‘Seashores’ at me proper now?”
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Like Shauna and Jackie in Season 1, CC and Hillary navigate their friendship by a sophisticated love triangle; theirs is with CC’s present enterprise boss, John. Hillary and John sleep collectively, inflicting a rift between the 2 associates, although John later marries CC — sounds acquainted, huh, Jeff? Later in life, Hillary finds herself unexpectedly pregnant by her dishonest husband, and CC springs to help her, simply as Jackie does with Shauna’s being pregnant, albeit earlier than she finds out the reality.

Nonetheless, the largest connection comes within the Season 1 finale, throughout Shauna and Jackie’s remaining argument. Shauna chastises Jackie for narcissism — “The remainder of us, we’re simply extras within the film of your fucking life!” — one thing Hillary struggles with CC about in Seashores.

“Did I drive you to dwell in my shadow, Shauna?” Jackie says in Yellowjackets. “It have to be arduous being this jealous on a regular basis. You are so fucking jealous of me you’ll be able to barely breathe.”

“Are you quoting Seashores at me proper now?” Shauna scoffs incredulously.

“What?! No,” Jackie genuinely responds, as if she’s internalised the script to consider it is her personal phrases.

“You are so fucking jealous of me you’ll be able to barely breathe.”

The road Jackie apparently unknowingly quotes is from the scene in Seashores during which Hillary and CC have a brutally chilly argument in a division retailer, during which every part they’ve ever needed to say to one another comes out. Tensions rise as the topic turns to the thought of getting youngsters, and Hillary makes the outstandingly loaded assertion, “I simply thought somebody such as you would not care about youngsters, you are so obsessed along with your profession and all.” From right here, Hillary retains laying out the judgment, scary an all-out residence reality session between these two supposedly finest associates. In the end, CC declares Hillary’s downside as “plain, old style jealousy.”

“I am dwelling the life you did not have the braveness for, so do not give me you are not jealous,” she says. “You are so jealous, you’ll be able to hardly breathe.”

In a extra refined further nod, Jackie’s “shadow” remark feels like a reference to the lyric from Midler’s Grammy-winning Seashores track, “Wind Beneath My Wings” — “It should have been chilly there in my shadow.”

Yellowjackets Season 2 references Seashores within the first episode.

Crystal bodily can not cease buzzing it.
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In Season 2, the Seashores soundtrack makes one more connection inside the Yellowjackets workforce. The soundtrack would have peppered the Yellowjackets’ childhoods, as “Wind Beneath My Wings” topped the Billboard singles chart in 1989 and gained Grammys for File of the 12 months and Music of the 12 months in 1990. You would not have been in a position to escape it in New Jersey, within the workforce’s fictional hometown of Wiskayok. However importantly, one of many songs from Seashores makes an look in Season 2, episode 1 of Yellowjackets.

Although she’s continuously scorned by her teammates for it, Crystal enjoys a great sing, even within the wilderness. In a single scene, when she believes she’s alone, Crystal busts out in a Broadway-hopeful model of “The Glory of Love” — the identical track she was buzzing within the cabin earlier earlier than Gen tells her to stop it.

“The Glory of Love” is featured twice in Seashores, marking the beginning and finish of CC and Hillary’s friendship. It is the primary track Hillary hears her new good friend CC performing as a child (performed by Mayim Bialik), and after Hillary’s funeral, Midler’s CC sings a sombre ballad model at considered one of her concert events, concluding the movie.

“You understand that track I simply completed with?” CC tells Hillary’s daughter, Victoria, after the present. “I sang that track the day your mom and I met at Atlantic Metropolis. We had been nearly your age, do you know that?”

Misty (Samantha Hanratty) finds friendship in a fellow social outcast.
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In Yellowjackets, Crystal breaks out into “The Glory of Love” considering she’s performing solo within the snow post-pee. She’s stunned by Misty, who has been despatched to gather ice for water once more and who notably shares the unlucky expertise of being bullied by her fellow teammates. Misty immediately channels Gen and tells Crystal to can it; nevertheless, Crystal simply modifications Misty’s thoughts.

“I do know it is annoying to individuals who aren’t into the theatre like I’m,” she says, dropping the magic phrases for the viewers, as we all know Misty is massive into it in her grownup life, listening to the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack earlier than kidnapping Jessica Roberts in Season 1. “It’s best to attempt it someday, it helps,” Crystal provides, earlier than providing to show Misty to sing, nay, “harmonise.” It is the primary provide of friendship and kindness Misty’s obtained from frankly anybody at Camp Yellowjackets, and he or she appears visibly humbled at this real olive department.

🎶That is the story of, that is glory of affection.🎶
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With a number of Seashores references connecting the 2 sequence, Yellowjackets makes use of considered one of late ’80s, early ’90s cinema’s most well-known display screen friendships to attract parallels between the women’ connections with one another. Sadly, Jackie and Shauna will not take pleasure in a lifelong friendship like CC and Hillary’s, however there’s hope for Misty and Crystal.

Yellowjackets Season 2 is streaming on Showtime, with new episodes streaming weekly on Fridays(Opens in a brand new tab). Episodes additionally air each Sunday on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET.