Yellowjackets, season 3: lost for good? (critical)

By dint of strolling between the trees, lost under a layer of mysteries and unsaid, the series advances without a compass and seems to definitely go around in circles. Damage.

The secret box seems more and more empty of meaning.

Captivating, refreshing, even exciting, even Yellowjackets lost us in the forest.

While the third season – at least as hard as the previous one – arrives in France today on Canal+the series is still sinking a little more, crushed under the weight of its mystical mysteries, slaloming between trees and unsaid.

We don’t necessarily need to know exactly where we are going, but we need to feel that we are moving forward. And nothing really seems to move in the life of Yellowjackets – Whether in the past or in the present.

In the 1990s, the survivors of the Wiskayok high school female team were now led by Natalie and lived at the heart of nature, almost peacefully, in line with their environment. They have slowly started to lose contact with reality (in every sense of the word).
In the present, they continue to shoot themselves in the legs. Misty understands that others don’t really like her, despite everything she does for them. Shauna tries to preserve a normal family life. Taissa, she returns to Van …

We had entered, in season 1, the metaphor of teenage savagery through the survival of these kids in a hostile environment. But the series has never really managed to go beyond this exciting pitch. The promises of the beginning never seem to have to materialize. And while we start this season 3, Yellowjackets used us. The concept is no longer sufficient for itself. By riding in circles, the chills of departure were evaporated. By dint of adding layers of secrets to puzzles, excitement gives way to obvious weariness. Yellowjackets Sow pebbles everywhere but no longer seems to be able to find its way at all.

There is always this deliciously macabre atmosphere, mixed with black humor, and some still exciting mysteries to unlock. But we seriously have the impression that the authors wander us between the trees without ever playing the game of revelations. Each episode is divided equally between the past and the present. And if the scenes in wilderness can still captivate, those of the present seem unable to achieve anything.

Despite the excellent Melanie Lynskey And Christina Ricciwe get bored.

Not everything can be based on atmospheric tension. After a while, by dint of shaking the secret box, we hold out your ear and we come to wonder if there is really something inside.

Yellowjackets, season 3 in 10 episodes, to see on Canal + from June 26, 2025.