How ‘Yellowjackets’ Became 2022’s First Streaming Hit

Warning: Mild spoilers for the first eight episodes of Yellowjackets ahead. Since its debut in mid-November of last year, Showtime drama Yellowjackets (one of my Top 10 TV Shows of 2021) has gone from “that series a few critics can’t stop raving about on Twitter” to a bona fide word-of-mouth sensation, steadily building its audience with each new episode. (Referring to it as a “hotshot out of a cannon,” Showtime’s President of Entertainment noted that the series had “grown each week on streaming by double-digit percentages.”) After a year where two of television’s biggest water-cooler hits both aired on HBO… Read Full Article