Christina Ricci tried — and failed — to fit Hollywood's mold. Lucky us
It started with a small plane crash in the woods and became a national obsession. "Yellowjackets," which concludes its first season on Sunday, has become a north star for weekly TV viewers since it premiered on Showtime in November. Part survival drama, part witchy mystery, it follows the members of a girls high school soccer team — and, 25 years later, the grown-up survivors — who get stranded in the remote wilderness for 18 months after their aircraft goes down on the way to a tournament.
Merging "Mean Girls" social dynamics with animalistic ritual, cannibalism and a killer '90s soundtrack, the series moves between 1996 and present day, with Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis and Tawny Cypress leading the adult cast. As outcast Misty Quigley, Ricci portrays a conniving sociopath in nerd's clothing. She's a uniquely terrifying creature, thanks largely to Ricci's talent for playing characters with dark, twisted cores: Wednesday Addams of "The Addams Family"; Katrina Van Tassel of "Sleepy Hollow"; Selby Wall, lover of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, in "Monster." But
