After every episode of "Yellowjackets," as the credits roll and that final song plays, my brain is simply buzzing with thoughts. We've been given a lot to chew on, just three episodes in to Season 2, but after sitting through "Digestif," cannibalism, men with no eyes and blood-clot beehives weren't at the top of my mind. I was thinking about online dating.
About 20 years ago, I met a girl on Facebook who lived in Australia and, over the course of a few months and about 2,000 exchanged messages, fell in love with her. That love grew not from the photos she shared with me, or the things that she wrote to me, but from what I built up in my own mind about her. I didn't know this person. We never met in real life or even talked on the phone, but I carried her in my heart every day until all of a sudden — I didn't. She met someone in Australia. I met someone in Chicago. And that whole thing, which felt so real for so long, was just done. Thinking of this situation, and how describing it to my friends at the time would elicit looks of deep concern or even pity, I can easily draw a comparison to Misty Quigley — played as a teen by Samantha Hanratty and as an adult by Christina Ricci — who is also a master of making something out of nothing.
