With huge spikes in viewership from episode to episode and a well-earned season renewal, Showtime’s Yellowjackets is a major win for the cable network and a standout for its streaming division. With season one wrapping up, what should you watch once you’re all caught up and want more shows like Yellowjackets?
It’s not hard to see why the show resonates. In Yellowjackets, a high school girls soccer team is stranded in the wilderness in 1996 when their plane crashes on the way to a national tournament. Through jumps in time, we learn that the girls eventually descend into Lord of the Flies-esque group madness, with more than a few hints of the supernatural. Within the first episode, we get glimpses of ritual killings and cannibalism months after the crash. In the present day, we catch up with survivors. As they work to put the past behind them, reminders of the woods creep into their lives, bringing them back together.