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T10 WHATS UP! November 14 - 20, 2021 girls is shown head-butting the frosty window of a cabin. Needless to say, the naturally competitive soccer champions aren't living out a typical com- ing-of-age tale. Instead, they come of age as survivalists, trapped in a dire situation; to- gether but very much alone. The flashback scenes de- picting the lengths the girls would go to make it home alive are reminiscent of the brutal divisions between the stranded schoolboys in Wil- liam Golding's 1954 novel "Lord of the Flies." "Yellowjackets" seems to speculate upon what circum- stances might drive "normal" people to extraordinary acts of violence. But, of course, these "normal" girls may have had complicated relationships with one another off the soc- cer pitch prior to the crash, even without the threat of death in the wilderness. The darkly inquisitive series should be an exciting viewer- ship experience for any thriller lover, with not only a talented cast but also an army of expe- rienced producers and direc- tors at work behind the scenes. Filmed in Vancouver this year, "Yellowjackets" comes from the executive producing duo of Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, who previously pro- duced the tense drama "Narcos: Mexico" and the mystery series "Dispatches From Elsewhere," a series inspired by a complicat- ed alternate-reality game con- structed in San Francisco (also the subject of 2013 documenta- ry "The Institute"). Lyle and Nickerson also have writing credits on "Yellowjackets." Perhaps most relevant to the "Yellowjackets" pilot, though, is Karyn Kusama's ("Jennifer's Body," 2009) direction. In her writing and directori- al debut, 2000's "Girlfight," Kusama tells the story of a teenager, played by then-new- comer Michelle Rodriguez ("The Fast and the Furious," 2001), who channels her ag- gression by diving into the male-dominated sport of box- ing. Kusama proved then that she knew a thing or two about young women fighting for their lives, and she's done it again (and then some!) in "Yellowjackets." Don't miss the premiere of the unsettling new series "Yel- lowjackets" when it airs as part of Showtime's thrilling lineup, right after a new epi- sode of "Dexter: New Blood" this Sunday, Nov. 11. continued from page T2 Search and rescue: Airplane tragedy revisited after 25 years in 'Yellowjackets' TV FEATURE 5 x 5 Steven Krueger and Samantha Hanratty as seen in "Yellowjackets"