'Come on, Juan' I'm the fool
The press release with which Netflix announced its new project with J. Bayona a few days ago could seem like a parody if film and TV journalists weren't already used to the tone of communications that anyone would say coming from a parallel universe in which The only series and movies are those of Netflix. If not, what were they going to tell that Bayona returns to the story of
¡Viven!
Without mentioning at any time the 1993 film, that film as morbid as it was efficient that recounted the accident of Flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force in 1972 and the subsequent hell that its survivors lived through.
The thing about cannibalism, you know
. Not a mention of that in the ad for Snow Society. Neither does it count about eating people. I reproduce as is: "Trapped in one of the most inaccessible and hostile environments on the planet, they are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive." Does it seem like a joke or not?
Of course, no reference to
Yellowjackets
, which is currently being broadcast (in Spain on Movistar +). This series created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson is also part of a plane crash and also includes cannibalism. The rugged ones, almost like in
¡Viven!
, they are a (North American) soccer (European) team of (normal) teenagers. Yes: normal. Not
teenagers
like the new
Gossip girl
, taken from Instagram's Olympus, but random chicks from the mid-90s. One of the times that Yellowjackets narrates is that. The other is actuality.
In the 90's they are isolated girls in a mountain after a plane crash; in 2021 women marked by what they lived
then. Normal girls, normal women. In not normal situations.
Karyn Kusama, director of the first episode, is responsible for a brilliant staging that the series, for now, maintains. A balance of forces, both narrative and visual, not easy to achieve:
Yellowjackets
must tell an extreme story that is nevertheless anchored in manners, everyday life and, why not say it, boredom
. A scenario that really is two and that must function as a unit so that the series does not seem like a collage of itself and other things: since, obviously,
They Live!
Until, evidently,
Lost
. Passing, of course, through
The Lord of the Flies
or
The 100
. And that's just the 90s part of the series.
Yellowjackets
, which
is not and does not want to be an avant-garde series
, does not play with its references in ironic winks to the viewer.
Quite the contrary: its characters are built from scratch and their situations are posed as if you had never seen them before.
Add to that a winning musical selection and you have one of the best series of the season.
So much so that it goes without saying that if you want stars here there are two very good ones:
Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis
.
Although the real protagonists are those almost girls forced to, ahem, "extreme measures to stay alive."
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