Yellowjackets Mistys Role With The Team Explained

Yellowjackets: Misty’s Role With The Team Explained

What’s Misty’s role with the Yellowjackets? We look at the teen’s job with the soccer team and how it sets up her arc on the Showtime thriller series.

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Yellowjackets Mistys Role With The Team Explained

Showtime’s Yellowjackets is a series about a girls’ soccer team, and Misty is not a player — so what is the teen’s role with the team? The new show is a genre-bending mix of psychological thriller, gruesome horror-like survival story, and coming of age tale. Yellowjackets features an ensemble cast led by Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, and Christina Ricci — with Ricci playing the adult version of Misty in the present. Debuting in November 2021, Yellowjackets is anticipated to be one of the best and most addictive Showtime series to date.

There are two timelines used in Yellowjackets: the present day and flashbacks to 1996. Episode 1, “Pilot,” introduces the adult survivors Taissa Turner (Tawny Cypress), Shauna Sheridan (Lynskey), Natalie (Juliette Lewis) and, as previously mentioned, Misty. Meanwhile, the flashbacks show the teen girls going through their final day and night before boarding the flight that crashes and changes their lives forever.

While Misty’s role in the Showtime series overall seems to be leading somewhere much larger given the prominence of adult Misty, her presence in the premiere is limited. In Yellowjackets season 1, episode 1, Misty is always near the girls but is hardly noticed. She is at the pep rally, cheering and swooning over the team with the rest of the crowd, but she is not on the team. It seems her role on the team is one of “Equipment Manager,” as the title is stitched on her team jacket.

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Traditionally speaking, a team’s Equipment Manager is exactly as it sounds: they manage the team’s jerseys and practice materials. Those in Misty’s role would possibly be expected to launder and prepare the team’s jerseys, organize and store any equipment used for practice and would assist the coach in matters of non-leadership. This seems to be exactly the case for Misty as she is seen on the sidelines by the coach and never on the field throughout the episode.

In the case of Teen Misty (played by Samantha Hanratty from Shameless), her role as Equipment Manager is not made important by her duties, but what the role signifies about her character. Misty seems star-struck by the girls and ready to do anything to be a part of their world. Additionally, Misty’s role as Equipment Manager in Yellowjackets establishes her as a part of the team, and simultaneously not part of the team. Misty is an outsider and when the plane crashes, she will no longer be the Equipment Manager, but an outsider that likely knows far more about the girls and their lives than they think. Her behavior at the pep rally in particular hints at an unhinged side to her character, as well as her desperate desire to feel included. The shocking ending with the old woman certainly shows Misty has a cruel side. It could be that the meek, fan-fevered Misty turns out to be far more dangerous in Yellowjackets than the girls could ever anticipate.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/yellowjackets-misty-soccer-team-role-assistant/

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