THE MORNING LIST
While waiting for new French series to be unveiled at festivals, the week is all American with a contemporary survival story inspired by an episode in the conquest of the West – the Donner expedition –, a recreation of the birth of a major professional sports franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers, and a horror sitcom that evokes both Stephen King’s Maine and Wisteria Lane in Desperate Housewives.
“Yellowjackets”: New Jersey survivors
The survival of a group of teenage girls lost far from civilization, the midlife crisis of a female quartet in New Jersey, a bit of gore (cannibalism, in this case), a bit of the occult: the list of ingredients of Yellowjackets arouses the worst suspicions. It seems that the creators wanted to bring together in an incoherent composition all the genres that today attract crowds.
When one arrives – exhausted, fascinated and dazzled – at the end of the first season, it is clear that it is not always desirable to read the label before emptying the bottle. Yellowjackets is to be consumed immediately, ten unpredictable episodes which come and go between those long months of 1996 during which a handful of young girls try to survive after the plane which took their football team to the West Coast crashes in the Canadian Rockies, and the present (in 2021) of four survivors (Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress and Christina Ricci).
The intelligence of the casting, which knew how to find the four young actresses (Sophie Nélisse, Sophie Thatcher, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Sammi Hanratty) ideal to embody the adolescent version of the adult characters, the vigor – even the brutality – of the staging which does not prevent the intelligence of writing (here is a convincing representation of the survival of a trauma) make Yellowjackets (“the wasps”) a series that we would like to see unfold over several seasons. Thomas Sotinel
« Yellowjackets », series created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, with Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Juliette Lewis, Ella Purnell, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Christina Ricci, Sammi Hanratty (United States, 2021, 10 x 56 min), Canal+, les first two episodes on March 3 at 9 p.m., then two episodes every Thursday, in full on March 3 on myCANAL.
“Shining Vale”: Courteney Cox, haunted novelist
At the same time as she became Monica Geller for the hundreds of millions of viewers of Friends, Courteney Cox played Gale Weathers, the unscrupulous journalist of Scream. Shining Vale allows the actress to combine these two forms: sitcom and horror.
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