Jackie Taylor may have died at the end of “Yellowjackets'” first season, but Ella Purnell‘s Emmy hopes for the second season are still very much alive.
While there’s not yet official confirmation that Purnell has been submitted for the Showtime hit this year — we’ll know for sure when Emmy ballots are released for the start of voting on June 15 — she is eligible in Best Drama Guest Actress, having appeared in new footage in less than 50 percent of the show’s nine episodes this season.
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Purnell’s key appearance is in the season premiere, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” in which she returns as a ghost version of Jackie who plays Mash with and taunts her best friend Shauna (Sophie Nélisse). Though ghost Jackie is more of a figment of Shauna’s imagination...
While there’s not yet official confirmation that Purnell has been submitted for the Showtime hit this year — we’ll know for sure when Emmy ballots are released for the start of voting on June 15 — she is eligible in Best Drama Guest Actress, having appeared in new footage in less than 50 percent of the show’s nine episodes this season.
See ‘Yellowjackets’: Sophie Nélisse deserves a taste of Emmy love for her heartrending work in ‘Qui’
Purnell’s key appearance is in the season premiere, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” in which she returns as a ghost version of Jackie who plays Mash with and taunts her best friend Shauna (Sophie Nélisse). Though ghost Jackie is more of a figment of Shauna’s imagination...
- 5/30/2023
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Spoilers for "Yellowjackets" follow.
The flashback storyline in "Yellowjackets" follows teenage girls from 1996 suburban New Jersey who are part of their high school's "Yellowjacket" soccer team. While flying to Seattle for a National championship match, they crash land in the woods of northern Canada. From the beginning, we've known where this is heading; the survivors will eventually turn to cannibalism, not just to stave off starvation but as part of ritualistic practice.
Flashbacks in the pilot showed a girl being caught in a trap and killed by the Yellowjackets — thanks to some concealing camera angles and the cultists' heavy fur coats, we don't know their identities yet, preserving some mystery. Episode 2 of the second season, "Edible Complex," revealed the girls' first indulgence with human flesh while tying up a loose end from season 1.
Jackie Taylor (Ella Purnell), the Yellowjackets' captain, had a rough go of it in season 1. She stubbornly...
The flashback storyline in "Yellowjackets" follows teenage girls from 1996 suburban New Jersey who are part of their high school's "Yellowjacket" soccer team. While flying to Seattle for a National championship match, they crash land in the woods of northern Canada. From the beginning, we've known where this is heading; the survivors will eventually turn to cannibalism, not just to stave off starvation but as part of ritualistic practice.
Flashbacks in the pilot showed a girl being caught in a trap and killed by the Yellowjackets — thanks to some concealing camera angles and the cultists' heavy fur coats, we don't know their identities yet, preserving some mystery. Episode 2 of the second season, "Edible Complex," revealed the girls' first indulgence with human flesh while tying up a loose end from season 1.
Jackie Taylor (Ella Purnell), the Yellowjackets' captain, had a rough go of it in season 1. She stubbornly...
- 3/31/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
The following contains Yellowjackets season 2 episode 1 spoilers.
Showtime drama Yellowjackets is many things—a twisty survival thriller, a haunting (perhaps literally!) mystery, a chilling horror story, a tense exploration of the long-tail effects of shared trauma—but at its heart, it’s a story about the complex emotional lives of teenage girls. Yes, the eponymous 1996 girls’ soccer team that finds themselves stranded in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash is forced to make some dark choices in order to survive, of a sort that tends to generate a lot of complicated fan theories about what’s happening to them and how the show’s dark hints of the cannibalism that ultimately took place are likely to play out. But Yellowjackets is at its best when it’s digging into the messy relationships between its central characters—both pre-and-post crash—as they blame, forgive, support, and rage at one another.
Showtime drama Yellowjackets is many things—a twisty survival thriller, a haunting (perhaps literally!) mystery, a chilling horror story, a tense exploration of the long-tail effects of shared trauma—but at its heart, it’s a story about the complex emotional lives of teenage girls. Yes, the eponymous 1996 girls’ soccer team that finds themselves stranded in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash is forced to make some dark choices in order to survive, of a sort that tends to generate a lot of complicated fan theories about what’s happening to them and how the show’s dark hints of the cannibalism that ultimately took place are likely to play out. But Yellowjackets is at its best when it’s digging into the messy relationships between its central characters—both pre-and-post crash—as they blame, forgive, support, and rage at one another.
- 3/27/2023
- by Lacy Baugher
- Den of Geek
Warning: Spoilers for “Yellowjackets” season 2. Do not read if you have not watched episode one, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” written by creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer. The creators, showrunner Jonathan Lisco, actor Sophie Nélisse and others break down the season 2 premiere while speaking with Et’s Deidre Behar.
After a surprise-filled season 1 finale, “Yellowjackets” is finally back with new episodes — and the season 2 premiere did not disappoint, delivering one shocking moment after another. And the biggest one was the return of Ella Purnell as Jackie Taylor, the captain of the soccer team who initially survived the plane crash before freezing to death in the wilderness at the end of season 1.
While the series did not resurrect Jackie, she was fully alive as part of the visions Shauna Shipman (Sophie Nélisse) was having of her late best friend while sitting with her dead body in the meat shed.
After a surprise-filled season 1 finale, “Yellowjackets” is finally back with new episodes — and the season 2 premiere did not disappoint, delivering one shocking moment after another. And the biggest one was the return of Ella Purnell as Jackie Taylor, the captain of the soccer team who initially survived the plane crash before freezing to death in the wilderness at the end of season 1.
While the series did not resurrect Jackie, she was fully alive as part of the visions Shauna Shipman (Sophie Nélisse) was having of her late best friend while sitting with her dead body in the meat shed.
- 3/27/2023
- by Sarah Curran
- ET Canada
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