Series Review

‘Yellowjackets’ satisfies our appetite for tales of brutal survival

A sort of 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'Mean Girls', the show is both a survival epic and a coming-of-age drama, showing women can be just as vicious as men

17 April 2022 - 00:00

William Golding’s classic survivalist novel Lord of the Flies is almost 70 years old but its tale of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after a plane crash and their descent into barbarism remains the blueprint for a whole genre of popular riffs on this idea and has seen the book remain a firm favourite on high-school syllabuses across the globe. ..

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