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Showtime’s new hit Yellowjackets simply concluded its first unbelievable season. If you are not watching Yellowjackets, contemplate this your wake-up name. This present is one thing else.
A personal airplane carrying an elite ladies’s highschool soccer workforce crashes within the wilderness, leaving a squad of teenage ladies to fend for themselves. Chaos, violence, spooky stuff and potential cannibalism ensue.
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Yellowjackets combines cues from exhibits like Lost with a riot grrrl aesthetic, bouncing forwards and backwards between what passed off earlier than and after the crash. It’s a present about trauma, however it’s additionally a giant time thriller. In quick, we’re hooked and we’ve questions. (We even have theories!)
Here what occurred within the finale, alongside our most burning questions relating to the present’s finale…
Yellowjackets ending defined
Loads went down within the season finale of Yellowjackets, so let’s undergo the most important reveals.
Jackie is lifeless
No… poor Jackie!
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Obviously we sorta knew Jackie was lifeless, on condition that she does not seem within the current storyline and Shauna attended a bizarre party/memorial with Jackie’s dad and mom. But now we all know for absolute sure she dies within the wilderness.
After a brutal argument with Shauna within the cabin, bringing Jackie and Shauna’s latent points to the floor, the ladies primarily banish Jackie from the cabin, which means she has to sleep outdoors. Literally and figuratively the ladies freeze Jackie out since, in a single day, an enormous quantity of snow falls and Jackie freezes to loss of life.
It’s a brutal, haunting consequence. Perfectly executed by the present. None of it felt outlandish. It might completely have occurred and can nearly actually function a turning level for the group and their potential descent into insanity.
Taissa has a tousled shrine beneath her home
This was one of many craziest, most shocking reveals for me. We lastly came upon what occurred to Taissa’s household canine. Taissa lower its head off and used it to create a completely warped shrine beneath her home.
What else was on the shrine? Her son’s creepy doll, alongside a drawing of what I’m now going to start out calling the “Cult Logo”.
Now the query is: Did Taissa do that in her creepy dirt-eating, tree climbing, sleep strolling state? Or did she do it consciously. I’m guessing it was finished in sleep strolling state, however we did lower to a creepy smile broaching throughout Taissa’s face after the reveal.
Did Taissa create this shrine to win the election?
Lottie is alive?
Lottie appears like she’s nonetheless alive!
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The ultimate twist of the finale was the most important one: Lottie is probably alive and probably the chief of a full blown cult primarily based on what occurred within the wilderness.
In the finale, grownup Natalie, on the verge of suicide, is kidnapped by what seems to be a bunch of cult lackies. It’s then instantly revealed that Lottie Matthews drained Travis’ checking account, which means she or individuals in her group may very well be chargeable for Travis’ loss of life.
We additionally see Van and Misty be part of Lottie for a wierd ritual within the wilderness. Is Misty appearing as a double agent within the current storyline? This is Misty we’re speaking about so something is feasible.
Our burning questions…
Who is the Antler Queen?
Yellowjackets’ opening sequence is unbelievable.
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At this level is appears crystal clear it is Lottie.
Not solely that however from the finale it is fairly clear that both Lottie remains to be alive, or a terrifying spiritual cult has sprung up following her actions within the wilderness.
Who will get killed and ‘eaten’ initially?
I’ve rewatched the present’s opening sequence to see if I might determine who will get spiked on the very begin of the present.
At first I used to be satisfied it was Lottie. Convinced. My working principle was the ladies banded towards her and her witchcraft methods and determined to… eat her to make bizarre stuff not occur?
Now I’m not so positive. Many early theories had this individual as Jackie, however after the season finale it is fairly clear that individual is just not Jackie. It may very well be anybody at this level. (Part of me nonetheless thinks it is Lottie and this cult is sort of a group of Yellowjackets obsessives who began a cult in her wake.)
Where is Javi?
Seriously man, does anybody care about Javi? Where the hell has he gone?
Plenty of individuals imagine Javi is Adam within the current storyline. I do not purchase that for a second. I believe Javi 100% dies within the wilderness, however I do not assume he is lifeless proper now. I believe Javi could have an enormous half to play in future tousled rituals throughout season 2 and past.
Who is subsequent to die?
RIP Jackie.
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In an earlier model of this story I mentioned I believed the present can be effectively served to kill off a person character early, simply to let the viewers know that nobody was secure. Well, that occurred pretty conclusively within the finale, so we all know all bets are off.
I actually imagine that Coach Ben’s days are numbered and there is no method Javi is making it out of the wilderness.
What occurred to Shauna’s child?
In the previous, Shauna is pregnant. In the current she has a daughter, Callie, who she consistently bickers with. Is Callie that child? Those timelines do not actually match up, so…
What occurred to Shauna’s child? There’s no method they’re gonna eat the child. That’s an excessive amount of for a mainstream present like Yellowjackets. Will they try to pull off a “instantly not pregnant” plot line? Probably not, since Midnight Mass actually simply did that final yr.
Not positive how that is gonna play out.
Shauna is certain to miscarry. No method she might carry the child to time period in such a anxious atmosphere! Giving start can be so dangerous… however so would miscarrying. Either method, it is not going to be time.
Who was Adam actually?
Adam was hilariously stabbed to loss of life by Shauna, however is that the top of that specific thriller? It by no means sat proper with me that Adam pursued Shauna so intensely and fell in love so rapidly. Was he only a Yellowjackets fan boy that grew up with the thriller, or is there one thing extra occurring there?
Can Lottie see the longer term for actual?
Lottie is among the present’s most compelling characters to this point.
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To be trustworthy, I’m hoping issues do not go full-blown supernatural.
I believe every little thing Lottie has predicted — the river flowing with blood, for instance — does, as Taissa argues, have logical explanations (the river is outwardly operating pink from concentrated minerals). Although, to be truthful, Taissa additionally turns right into a dirt-eating tree-climber at night time, so she may not be essentially the most dependable supply.
What was Lottie taking her remedy for?
Lottie is taking a drugs known as “Loxipene” which is almost certainly a reference to Loxapene, a drugs for schizophrenia. In episode 3, nevertheless, Lottie runs out of her remedy. Not lengthy after, we see her conduct begin to change — she’s getting paranoid, turns into quieter, and begins making fairly obscure and unnerving statements. It’s price noting that, so far as we all know, Lottie hasn’t instructed any of the others about her sickness.
Who died within the cabin? Is this a haunting/cursed/ghost state of affairs?
There’s one principle doing the rounds that an deserted mining operation is positioned up from the pink river. Whoever died within the cabin might need some connection.
Why was that stag all maggoty on the within?
I can not think about we’ll ever get a solution to this, however how was this animal up and strolling round with its inside organs all hollowed out and lined in maggots? I NEED TO KNOW!
Who is the Man with no Eyes and why does Taissa maintain seeing him?
The Man With No Eyes seems in episode 3 — first as an apparition seen by each Taissa and her grandmother simply earlier than Grandma dies, and later within the woods after the airplane crash. He seems simply within the distance: pallid pores and skin, darkish hair and, in fact, large gaping holes the place his eyes must be.
At first, it looks like there may very well be a purely psychological purpose behind this spectre. Maybe Taissa was traumatized from her dying grandma speaking to “a person with no eyes” and her creativeness crammed within the blanks. However, coupled with Taissa’s son Sammy’s conduct — overlaying his home windows with drawings of eyes and eyeless individuals, his doll disappearing from the highest of the cabinet solely to seem on the basement flooring with its eyes eliminated — we start to assume that The Man with No Eyes truly lives on this realm and never simply in Taissa’s creativeness.
Old Eyeless Lad seems briefly within the opening credit and sure, each time, I get spooked. It’s a genuinely unnerving character and it is a shock to see him first seem, particularly when the primary two episodes featured negligible supernatural components. He’s but to reappear, however perhaps he’ll make a comeback within the finale. A reappearance and even potential clues that he is a supernatural entity would open us as much as extra questions: If The Man with No Eyes is actual, does that imply Lottie’s visions and religious connection to the forest are greater than displays of her schizophrenia?
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