The Fear of Flying

I'm not a murder documentary person, I'm a catastrophic flight simulation person

I just began watching Yellowjackets, an immensely popular TV show that all my friends have been telling me to watch for over a year. Reviews and recommenders say it’s got a lot of my favorite things: cannibalism, sapphic love triangles, references to the movie Party Girl. But when Yellowjackets was first released, my friend Matt told me I should be careful.

“You may want to wait to watch it until you aren’t going to travel for a while,” he said. “There’s a plane crash that’s shown in multiple episodes, and it’s pretty realistic.”

Matt was right to warn me. I used to be a great flyer. I didn’t start out that way – the