Female hunger is prompting numerous narratives on our screens as a vehicle for character development such as the transformation that women undergo as they reach adulthood. This celebration of cannibalism presented as both repellent and attractive is not a one-off. Affectionately referring to them as “our cannibals,” the audience seemed to be waiting for that first bite with the shadow of the 1846 Donner party - the one that inspired the series’ creators, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson involving a survival and cannibalism. Fans of the successful series, which is breaking audience records in the U.S., took to social media to celebrate that its protagonists, a group of girls subsisting in the forest after a plane crash, go for it, breaking one of humanity’s most profound taboos. In the end, Shauna, played by Sophie Nélisse, eats it, opening the floodgates to a cannibalistic orgy in which her friend Jackie (Ella Purnell) is devoured by a group of hungry young women who give in to their uncontrollable appetite. It is the ear of her best friend, now dead after succumbing to the first winter frost. “To eat or not to eat?” Shauna might be saying as she stares at a freshly severed ear at the beginning of the second season of Yellowjackets.
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