Strong and ambiguous characters

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The message of Hornets is simple – women can be strong and decisive in critical situations, can act independently and protect each other without the help of men.

One of the important questions that the series explores is whether a person is able to fully recover from such a nightmare or whether the trauma will haunt them for the rest of their lives. The answer to this question is given by the heroines 25 years later.

Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) is, at first glance, a model housewife with a husband and a teenage daughter who can easily kill and cook a rabbit that accidentally wanders into her garden. She suspects her husband of cheating and arranges surveillance on him, at the same time starting an affair herself and later cold-bloodedly killing her lover, wielding a saw all too casually.

Natalie (Juliette Lewis) is a broken woman grieving over the death of her lover Travis, who also survived the crash. She returns from rehab to find that he has hanged himself, but begins to suspect that his suicide was staged.

Taissa (Tony Cypress) is a careerist who wants to win the local elections at all costs. She has fulfilled all her school dreams, became rich and successful, but the past pulls her into a black hole: Taissa suffers from sleepwalking and during her episodes does terrible things, thereby frightening her young son.

Misty (Christina Ricci) is a sociopathic nurse who is obsessively good and wants to be needed. She has no friends, is disrespected by her colleagues, and is ignored by the other survivors.

"What's most compelling about Yellowjackets is its exploration of the fundamentals of survival—physical and emotional—and the lingering effects of trauma. Even as the cops close in on Shauna over Adam's disappearance (adult Shauna's lover — ed. ), it becomes increasingly difficult for her to deny the dizzying power of primal violence," Entertainment wrote in its review.