The most iconic image from Yellowjackets Season 1 is the pilot episode’s cold open: a girl in a fur cloak, wearing a veil of antlers (the "Antler Queen"), sits atop a blood-stained snow altar while a ritualistic feast begins.
The premise is simple but lethal. In 1996, a championship high school soccer team from New Jersey crashes deep in the Canadian wilderness while flying to nationals. They are stranded for 19 months, and while we know some of them make it out, the show reveals early on that survival came at a gruesome, cannibalistic price. The narrative weaves between two timelines: