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Lord of the Flies meets the R rating in Showtime’s Yellowjackets. This show is all about survival — surviving a plane crash, surviving months in the Canadian wilderness, surviving being cannibalized by your friends. Yes, you read that right.

In 1996, The Yellowjackets are an undefeated soccer team from New Jersey headed to nationals. Their plane crashes in the Canadian wilds, throwing them into a 19-month ordeal of attempting to survive — although their interpersonal relationships start to deteriorate long before the crash. Fast-forward to 2021, four of the girls, now in their 40s, are forced to relive their trauma, living in fear that the truth about their time in the wilderness will come out.

Constantly jumping between both timelines, the team’s endurance in the woods for months and the breakdown of their humanity is a brutal but thrilling story to watch. It centers on a mystery set up in the very first episode — who is the girl running, being hunted down by her former teammates? But the character development in this twisting and untwisting drama is so compelling that cannibalism isn’t the most interesting thing about the show.