Yellowjackets Season 2: Elijah Wood's addition is the Showtime drama's latest inspired stunt casting.

Elijah Wood means different things to different people. The Yellowjackets of Wisayok High School, whose plane crash-landed in the wilderness in the spring of 1996, were suburban teens in the mid-’90s, which is to say they all would have known Wood on sight. Lewis, Ricci, and Lynskey’s ’90s canons especially play a substantial, subterranean part in the show’s aesthetic as well as its drama: Natural Born Killers, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Cape Fear, The Addams Family, Mermaids, Heavenly Creatures, But I’m a Cheerleader—the show is basically a dark version of the young Ricci’s similarly time-hopping nostalgia blast Now and Then. Anyone who’d seen promotional images for Yellowjackets would have known she was a co-star, but the show withholds her from us until her entrance matters most. While, in various ways, Lewis, Ricci, and Wood all owned the ’90s, none experienced midcareer peaks as high as their youthful successes.