The Sopranos inspired season two of Yellowjackets, showrunners have claimed.Yellowjackets tells the story of a team of talented female high-school soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness.
The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while also tracking the lives they have attempted to piece back together.The series became Showtimes’ highest-viewed new series in six years, with over five million viewers weekly.In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, creators of the show Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickelson discussed how normalising cannibalism, murder, and trauma is connected back to the Italian mob boss. “Tony Soprano is an absolute monster — but, because he’s so well drawn, you understand him.
That’s what we’re aiming for.” Lyle told the publication.He continued: “We have conversations about what could be too far, but it’s less about likeability for the characters and more about the type of story.
We never want to be shocking and salacious for the sheer joy of it.”Co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco taunted fans jokingly, during a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly, by adding that cannibalism is “the tip of the iceberg” of the soccer team’s numerous crimes.“If we do our job right, the eating of a person will not be the most transgressive thing that these young women do in the wilderness,” he said.Lisco added: “That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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