Nothing brings a family closer than covering up a crime. Or at least that proves to be the case for the Sadeckis in season two. yellow jackets. Fortunately, Callie (Sarah Desjardins) inherited the survival skills of her mother, Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), and not her family’s sloppy attempt to clean up various crimes.
Callie, surprisingly, changed from an annoying teenager to a helpful accomplice over the course of several episodes.
Considering how many adolescent characters are in it yellow jackets, he was always going to be someone who would get the most disturbing adjective. Unfortunately for Callie, she fulfills that role – joining the Insufferable Kids Hall of Fame (Shame?) from other shows.
Like everything else, it is not a new archetype. sopranos with Homeland suffers from lead character-pup aggravation. Or, in the last case for all humanityThe metaphor extended into adulthood. Desjardins is also starring in new Netflix thriller Night AgentWho saw you deviate from Bauer 24 region – fortunately in the final this avoids tagging.
It doesn’t help that Callie’s plight is the only teenager on the Showtime series’ contemporary timeline. He’s also a jerk to his mother, and his rebellion has been pretty standard fare until now. Until Shauna decides to take Callie into the circle of trust that she responds with her new respect for her mother instead of rejecting it, and by doing so she wins my heart.
While so many characters surviving in the wilderness for 19 months can be considered a miracle from a story standpoint, the real achievement is how quickly I actively hate Callie and become her ultimate champion.
Look at her mother, take your daughter
from the beginning yellow jacketsCallie is a moody teenager who does nothing (like defrosting the mirror for dinner) when her mother asks her to, and deliberately disobeys Shauna’s instructions not to go to town on Halloween.
But Callie isn’t the only one who’s been lying about her whereabouts, as her mother’s affair leaves her also sneaking around. It doesn’t help that Callie is higher than Molly when they run into each other. And her costume choice is the Yellowjackets uniform she thinks is her mother – but it’s Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) uniform. Yes, she’s wearing the clothes of a dead girl. That’s a shitty thing to do, but disobeying your parents is a rite of passage, and Callie thought you were dressing like her mom.
When Shauna first sees Callie at the Halloween party, she thinks Jackie is the one she’s been following. Freud would spend a field day with this couple, and the role that dead Jackie still plays in his best friend’s life. Callie sees who her mom is hanging out with and is unsurprisingly angry and upset. Everyone has a moment when they grow up when they realize their parents are fallible, but, my God, will this require Callie’s version? For this reason a lot of therapy.
The consistent comedy undercurrent is one reason the Sadecki family drama remains so entertaining even when Callie is at her most brash. Despite all the resounding pain, the tone in the scenes often leans towards a family sitcom set in the suburbs, minus the laugh track. But Callie can’t help feeling like she’s fallen into an episode. The Twilight Zone In the Season 1 finale, when her parents switch from barely talking to quality couch time, this is further complicated when her mother’s other man, Adam, is reported to have disappeared on local news. Again, For this reason a lot of therapy.
Being Shauna’s daughter is not easy and what yellow jackets What she did in the second season gave Callie a deeper understanding of her family’s recent illegal activities. There’s still a lot Callie doesn’t know, and Shauna is wary of revealing how much about the failed blackmail scheme Jeff (Warren Kole) and Randy (Jeff Holman) concocted.
smells like Teen Spirit
Callie occupies a space that mirrors the way Jackie talks to Shauna: with an air of superiority. As much as she reminds Shauna of her dead bro, she is also her mother’s daughter. The similarities range from Callie’s frustration with her nice (but clingy) boyfriend to her drinking all day long to keep clutter out of the house. She is also a much better liar than her mother, because Shauna has no idea she didn’t spend all those nights with her friend Ilana – even though this is the oldest trick in the book.
Among the many different matchups in the Showtime series, this mother and daughter’s transition from brawler to teammate is one of the biggest shocks of season two. A few weeks ago, Callie overheard her mother’s attempt to sell Kevyn (Alex Wyndham) some BS about her relationship with Adam (Peter Gadiot). “So you lied to be a feminist?!” Callie taunts her when Shauna makes a fake girl-boss-leaning excuse to her daughter. At this point, I began to warm up to Callie, partly thanks to Desjardins’ excellent presentation that underlined the emerging hypocrisy.
So with a deep sigh, she went to a bar, ordered a Fireball, and started flirting with a hot guy next to her. This is a textbook adolescent rebellion behavior and the hippie type sitting at the bar. Actually An out-of-town cop investigating Adam’s disappearance. Jay (John Reynolds) is exactly the amount of his own parent drama with a healthy baby denim jacket and mustache to make him irresistible to Callie. Yes, she’s making all her problems up, but her “honesty” lies are appealing to someone who lives in her house.
Jay (real name Matt) walks a questionable line when it comes to manipulating a teenage girl, even though Callie quickly refuses to reveal information about her mother’s affair. An already precarious situation becomes incredibly dangerous when Shauna tells Callie what happened to Adam. “I care too much about secrets. Like, I can’t do it!” It’s Callie’s highly relatable response. An ultimatum spoken by the youth finally gives him the answers he expects.
The truth will set you free
Okay, there’s a slight bit of tears and confusion, but instead of going wild (as I expected), Callie is open to this news and her mom’s cause. He doesn’t get the whole picture of what’s going on in the wilderness, but judging by Callie’s reaction to the rest of the story, I think she can handle a bit of cannibalism – though we don’t know. everything At this point.
Back home, the twisted sitcom mood continues and Callie wants to help out with dinner for once. Jeff’s brash reaction to his daughter knowing the truth adds to the humorous mood. As a family survivor of murder, blackmail, and accidental dating a cop, I’d love to watch a multi-cam comedy starring this trio.
Lynskey is very good at changing her delivery for a penny, and Desjardins matches that type of delivery while also showing how happy she is with Callie’s newfound role in the family. Pride isn’t something we’ve seen her exhibit before, which takes it a step further when she discovers who she’s dating.
“So I fixed it?” Callie glows positively in the family kitchen after another confession (and comedy) session. In the previous episode, Callie skims through the details of the “friend” she hangs out with and what she’s shared with him. As soon as Callie finds out that Jay is a cop, everything changes and everything becomes clear. This family is so wonderfully screwed up that when Callie reveals her lie, Shauna replies, “It’s not a bad idea, actually,” rather than getting angry.
Yes, when you tell Jay that Shauna’s dad is sleeping with his best friend, Randy, constantly deceiving his parents does work. I’d also like to point out that when Callie talked about who she was seeing, Jeff was more concerned with her age and Shauna knew right away that she was a “damn cop”.
This conversation is another pleasure for Sadecki and another point in Callie’s favour. Once the kitchen was the scene of angry back and forth, but now that he’s playing in the sandbox, I forget how quickly I feel uncomfortable with this character. Of course, her parents are terrible criminals and are wasting the foundations Callie has laid out with some bad executions.
Shauna is not spared and Jay knows that Callie is lying to him. It’s not the result they were hoping for, but at least they’re closer than ever. With so many unresolved threads, Callie’s transformation from a grumpy, brash teenager to a collaborator is an unexpected win.
yellow jackets It deftly explores all aspects of teenage girlhood, including the characters pushing the buttons of their parents (and us). Destroying the disturbing teen archetype by including her in the plot is a welcome move to end Callie’s reign as TV’s most annoying teen.
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