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In case you missed it, yellow jackets Seasons 1 and 2 tie into one of cinema’s most iconic stories of love and long-term friendship, with a few references to the movie that still brings tears to our eyes. beaches

It stars Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends CC Bloom and Hillary Whitney. beaches was released in 1988, eight years before the Yellow Jackets plane crashed in the desert in 1996. A tale of complicated lifelong friendships, the film draws several parallels with yellow jacketsFrom the deeply competitive relationship between Shauna (Sophie Nelisse) and Jackie (Ella Purnell) to Misty’s (Samantha Hanratty) and Krystal’s (Nooh Jess Isman) emerging bond as social outcasts. But yellow jackets also contains direct links to beaches script and soundtrack, so let’s dive in.

yellow jackets References to season 1 beaches in the final.

Like Shauna and Jackie in the first season, CC and Hillary navigate their friendship through a complicated love triangle; them with CC’s showbiz boss, John. Hillary and John sleep together, which causes a rift between the two friends, although John later marries CC – sounds familiar, right Jeff? Later in life, Hillary unexpectedly discovers that she is pregnant by her cheating husband and CC rushes to support her, as did Jackie in the case of Shauna’s pregnancy, albeit before she learns the truth.

However, the biggest connection comes in the Season 1 finale, during Shauna and Jackie’s final argument. Jackie Shona Chastees for Narcissism: “The rest of us, we’re just extras in the movie of your fucking life!” – Something that makes Hillary fight CC in beaches.

“Did I force you to live in my shadow, Shona?” Jackie speaks in yellow jackets. “It must be hard to be so jealous all the time. You’re so fucking jealous of me you can barely breathe.”

“You are quoting beaches me right now?” Shauna grins incredibly.

“What?! No,” Jackie replies sincerely, as if she internalized the script to believe it was her own words.

“You’re so damn jealous of me you can barely breathe.”

The line that Jackie is apparently unknowingly quoting is taken from a scene in beaches in which Hillary and C.C. have a brutal, cold-hearted argument in a department store in which everything they ever wanted to say to each other comes out. The tension builds when the topic turns to the idea of ​​having children, and Hillary makes a remarkable statement: “I just thought, someone likes you Don’t care about the kids, you’re so obsessed with your career and everything.” From that point on, Hillary continues to lay out her judgments, provoking a full-on domestic truth session between these two supposedly best friends. In the end, CC declares Hillary’s problem. as “plain, old-fashioned jealousy”.

“I’m living a life you didn’t have the guts for, so don’t tell me you’re not jealous,” she says. “You’re so jealous you can barely breathe.”

In a more subtle additional nod, Jackie’s “shadow” comment sounds like a reference to lyrics from Midler’s Grammy-winning song. beaches the song “The Wind Under My Wings” – “It must have been cold there in my shadow.”

yellow jackets Season 2 references beaches in the first episode.

In season 2 beaches the soundtrack establishes another connection with the Yellowjackets team. The soundtrack would have brightened up the Yellow Jackets’ childhood, as “Wind Beneath My Wings” topped the Billboard singles chart in 1989 and won a Grammy for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1990. You couldn’t avoid it. in New Jersey, in the fictional hometown of the Whiskeyock team. But most importantly, one of the songs from beaches appears in season 2, episode 1 of the TV series Yellow jackets.

Although she is constantly despised by her teammates for this, Krystal loves to sing well even in the desert. In one scene, when she believes she’s alone, Krystal breaks out in the Broadway version of Love’s Glory, the same song she hummed in the cabin earlier before Gen told her to leave her.

“Glory of Love” appears twice in beaches, marking the beginning and end of CC and Hillary’s friendship. This is the first song Hillary hears as a child from her new friend CC (played by Mayim Bialik), and after Hillary’s funeral, CC Midler sings a dark version of the ballad at one of her concerts, closing the film.

“Do you know that song I just finished?” CC tells Hillary’s daughter, Victoria, after the show. “I sang this song the day your mom and I met in Atlantic City. We were about your age, did you know that?”

Misty (Samantha Hanratty) finds a friendship with another social outcast.
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IN yellow jackets, Krystal begins to sing “The Glory of Love”, thinking she is performing a solo in the snow after peeing. She is surprised by Misty, who was sent to get ice for the water. again and who, in particular, shares the bad experience of being bullied by her teammates. Misty instantly guides Gen and tells Krystal so she can do it; however, Krystal easily changes Misty’s mind.

“I know it’s annoying for people who aren’t into theater like I am,” she says, speaking the magic words to the audience as we know Misty big into her adult life, listening Phantom of the Opera soundtrack before the kidnapping of Jessica Roberts in the first season. “You should try it sometime, it helps,” Krystal adds, before offering to teach Misty how to sing, no, “harmonise.” This is the first offer of friendship and kindness Misty has received from Frank any in the Yellow Jackets camp and she is clearly embarrassed by this real olive branch.

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With several beaches A reference linking the two series, The Yellow Jackets uses one of the most famous on-screen friendships in cinema from the late 80s, early 90s to draw parallels between the girls’ bonding with each other. Unfortunately, Jackie and Shauna won’t have a lifelong friendship like CC and Hillary, but Misty and Krystal have hope.

yellow jackets Season 2 airs on Showtime with new episodes airing weekly on Fridays.(Opens in a new tab). Episodes also air every Sunday on Showtime at 9:00 pm ET.