Yellowjackets
Flight of the Bumblebee
TV Flash files “Flight of the Bumblebee” as a desk essential hour — Yellowjackets (2021–) on Showtime, season 1, episode 8, aired 2022-01-02, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 8 of 29 in the Yellowjackets guide, hour 8 of 10 in season 1. It aired 2022-01-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “No Compass” (S01E07). Next is “Doomcoming” (S01E09).
Essential hour: “Flight of the Bumblebee”. Flight of the Bumblebee as late-season-one frenzy: the title as tempo, survival horror still feral rather than a mystery-box PowerPoint.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
What is madness and what is divine? While in triage after a vicious attack, the Yellowjackets are left to suss out the best of their worst ideas. Shauna dabbles in some light cyberstalking.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Flight of the Bumblebee sit in the Yellowjackets guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 8 of 29 — hour 8 of 10 in season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did Yellowjackets S01E08 air?
Flight of the Bumblebee aired 2022-01-02 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need both timelines?
Yes. Dual timeline is the engine: teen survivors in the wilderness and the same women as adults decades later. Skipping the past or present breaks the wound.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson's dual-timeline survival horror for an ensemble that treats female rage as plot engine. Teen soccer crash, wilderness, midlife mess; answers rationed, vibes feral. Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, and Tawny Cypress as the wound that will not close.
The work is a braid: teen soccer team survivors of a wilderness plane crash hide what they did until midlife mess and present-day consequences reopen the wound. Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson's Showtime series premiered November 14, 2021, and treated female rage as a plot engine across dual timelines — 1996 survival and adult aftermath, cult, cannibalism, and the lie of being fine now. Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, and a younger cast mirror trauma across decades. Horror, dark…
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- Tawny Cypress as Taissa
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