I graduated high school in 1995, just a year prior to when the girls of the Wiskayok High School Yellowjackets soccer team would have likewise been preparing to celebrate their own diplomas and blow off steam before heading into "the real world." That fact would be nothing more than a minor similarity to draw between myself and the characters we reunite with in this second season premiere — were it just a show about normal teens doing normal things — but because it's one that challenges me to consider the primal, elemental version of myself that I've equally kept in check between then and now, it's impossible to forget. I've certainly never eaten the ear of my dead best friend but, presented with the opportunity as a teen in the 90s, I would have considered it. And I don't think starvation would have factored in much either way.
Teenage girls are wild, and I guess you'd have had to have been one in order to truly understand the degree to which that's true.
