Yellowjackets Creator Confirms Jackie's Movie Journal Is Not A Mistake
Yellowjackets showrunner, Jonathan Lisco, debunks a theory that Jackie’s journal contains accidental anachronisms. Lisco is credited as showrunner alongside husband-and-wife duo, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. The trio’s series unfolds in two separate timelines. One traces the survival efforts of a high school soccer team marooned in the northern wilderness in 1996. Concurrently, present-day survivors deal with their unresolved trauma, dispose of meddling outsiders, and harbor secrets of their own.
One of the series’ central relationships is the contentious friendship between Jackie (Ella Purnell), the confident and popular team captain, and Shauna (Sophie Nélisse), the seemingly deferential sidekick who’s actually sleeping with Jackie’s boyfriend. In episode 6, titled “Saints,” the now-adult Shauna (Melanie Lynskey)and Jeff (Warren Kole) have brunch with Jackie’s parents to celebrate their late daughter’s birthday. After a decidedly awkward meal, Shauna wanders into Jackie’s room–untouched by her parents for 25 years–where she leafs through her dead friend’s old journals filled with lists of favorite movies that, notably, came out after 1996.
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In an interview with Variety, Lisco confirms that the diary entries were not, in fact, careless anachronisms, but were rather calculated details. One list, titled in pink marker as “Movie Characters I Would Be,” cites films like American Beauty (1999) and Bring It On (2000), both of which came out after the 1996 plane crash. Lisco, however, is adamant that the details aren’t a contingency error. “It’s not a mistake,” says the showrunner. Read his full quote below:
“It’s not a mistake. We will find out. And I
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