'Yellowjackets': 10 burning questions we’ve got for Season 3

We made it by means of the wilderness of Yellowjackets Season 2 — and similar to on the finish of Season 1, we’ve got many questions.

This season gave us a number of of the solutions we craved from Season 1, together with how the Yellowjackets’ cannibalism even began and what occurred to Shauna’s (Sophie Nélisse and Melanie Lynskey) wilderness child. Nonetheless, it is also opened up the floodgates to a complete new slew of mysteries that we’re hoping get solved subsequent season.

From our most far-fetched fan theories to some Season 1 secrets and techniques which have but to be revealed, listed below are 10 burning questions we’ve got for Yellowjackets Season 3.

1. How will the Yellowjackets survive with out their cabin?

A young woman with a scarred face.

Liv Hewson in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kimberley French / Showtime

Yellowjackets went out in a literal blaze of glory, with Coach Ben (Steven Krueger) setting fireplace to the Yellowjackets’ cabin. With out their shelter, and with winter nonetheless going robust, how will the workforce keep alive till their inevitable rescue?

We all know primarily based on the very begin of Season 1 that the Yellowjackets will proceed their cannibalistic searching ritual each time they want meals. Crucially, although, we do not know the place they’re going to be dwelling at that time. Will they assemble their very own shelter, or will they hunker down in already-existing constructions just like the airplane wreckage or the meat shed? No matter they select to do, it is clear that the problem of their survival has simply skyrocketed. The lack of the cabin can solely result in extra stress and strife going ahead.

2. Is Coach Ben nonetheless alive within the current?

A man on crutches in a snowy forest.

Steven Krueger in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / Showtime

Since nobody ever mentions Ben within the present-day timeline, it is extremely seemingly that he would not really survive the workforce’s stint within the wilderness. Nonetheless, we have predicted a number of occasions that Ben’s loss of life was imminent, and he is simply stored on kicking regardless of the percentages. At this level, it seems like you possibly can’t rely him out. Plus, Season 2 of Yellowjackets stunned us with the arrival of grownup Van (Lauren Ambrose) and Lottie (Simone Kessell), so there’s an opportunity we have got a Ben Shock coming.

Apart from questions of Ben’s survival, essentially the most attention-grabbing side of his storyline going ahead is how — and if — he’ll proceed to work together with the remainder of the Yellowjackets within the wilderness. In spite of everything, he did attempt to burn them to loss of life as soon as he realized the Cannibal Cult was not a one-time factor. Will the workforce ever notice that it was Ben who destroyed their cabin? Will they even have the ability to discover him in his underground hideout? We may be in for a Coach Ben-Yellowjackets showdown subsequent season.

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3. Wait, is Nat really the Antler Queen?

A young woman in a snowy forest.

Sophie Thatcher in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / Showtime

One of many main twists of the Yellowjackets Season 2 finale is teen Lottie’s (Courtney Eaton) revelation that she will be able to not hear the mysterious “wilderness” after instructing the opposite Yellowjackets to attach with it. Lottie declares that the workforce wants a brand new chief — particularly since she by no means needed the job anyway — and appoints Nat (Sophie Thatcher) in her stead.

So how will Nat lead the Yellowjackets, now that she’s in cost? If the workforce realizes Ben was behind the fireplace, will she attempt to hunt him down regardless of their closeness? Will she proceed the cannibalism ritual and the worship of the wilderness, though she was so in opposition to it initially of the season? And if that’s the case, does this imply that it is Nat underneath the Antler Queen veil, and never Lottie?

There are a couple of methods the Antler Queen may nonetheless be Lottie: Maybe Nat continues to uplift her as a religious determine. Or perhaps the lack of the cabin proper after Nat’s ascension will lead the remainder of the survivors to show again to Lottie. However with the Yellowjackets’ management all shaken up, the true id of Antler Queen we see in Season 1’s opening sequence continues to be unknown.

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4. As soon as once more, who’s Pit Lady? And who’s subsequent on Shauna’s chopping block?

A group of young woman in winter clothing stand on an iced-over river.

Liv Hewson, Sophie Thatcher, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Sophie Nélisse in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / Showtime

Two seasons in, and we nonetheless do not know who the mysterious Pit Lady is. At this level, perhaps it would not matter: Cannibalism on Yellowjackets is now in full swing, and we all know which workforce members really survive to the current. However provided that Yellowjackets opens with Pit Lady, it could be good to know whose loss of life we have been theorizing about for years now.

Talking of loss of life theories, which of the Yellowjackets ought to we plan to say goodbye to subsequent? We all know extra cannibalism is coming, however we do not know who can be on the menu. Given the extraordinary stage of rituals surrounding Pit Lady’s execution, it looks as if we’re nonetheless a couple of deaths away from her. However who is aware of, perhaps Nat will kick off her management period with a brand new hunt to calm the wilderness for taking their shelter. (That is usually the place I might say that Ben is dying subsequent, however after his observe file this season, I believe we’ll be protecting him on the “alive” roster for a bit longer.)

5. What is the take care of the person with no eyes and the mysterious image?

A young woman in a snowy forest.

Jasmin Savoy Brown in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kimberley French / Showtime

Here is one other query that carries over from Season 1, however it bears repeating! This season, we be taught just a little bit extra about Taissa’s (Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress) sleepwalking and the terrifying visions she will get of the person with no eyes. As teen Van (Liv Hewson) discovers, Tai’s sleepwalking leads her to timber with the creepy image of the hanging woman carved into them, suggesting that she’s in some way extra linked to the wilderness than she initially thought.

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Nonetheless, when Tai embraces Lottie’s teachings, she stops sleepwalking. Any likelihood we had of getting additional solutions dissipates. Will Season 3 lastly resolve the freaky image’s true which means? And is it in any method linked to the French Canadian man who lived and died within the cabin?

6. How will the present-day Yellowjackets grieve the lack of Natalie?

A woman dressed in purple holding a stack of papers.

Juliette Lewis in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / Showtime

By far the largest shock of the Yellowjackets Season 2 finale is the lack of present-day Nat (Juliette Lewis). Her loss of life is an accident: Misty (Christina Ricci) injects her with phenobarbital she meant for Lottie’s acolyte Lisa (Nicole Maines), and there is nothing the remaining Yellowjackets can do to avoid wasting her.

Since its very first episode, Yellowjackets has examined how its characters course of their previous traumas from the time within the wilderness. With Nat’s loss of life, they add one other, newer trauma to the combo. How will the survivors cope? Will Shauna really feel survivor’s guilt in the identical method that Nat did when Javi died (Luciano Leroux), provided that she drew the queen card? Will this new loss of life alleviate Tai’s sleepwalking or make it worse? Will Van and Lottie get drawn additional into the cult of the wilderness with the information that they nonetheless sacrificed somebody?

The Yellowjacket I am most involved about right here is Misty. Nat’s loss of life marks the second time this season that Misty has unintentionally killed her greatest pal, after Crystal’s (Nuha Jes Izman) lethal fall previously timeline. Whereas Misty’s by no means appeared too responsible about her extra nefarious plots, this time the guilt and parallels to the previous could eat her alive.

7. What’s subsequent for the Sadecki household?

A man and his teenage daughter hug on a couch.

Warren Kole and Sarah Desjardins in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / Showtime

What a wild season it has been for Shauna, Jeff (Warren Kole), and Callie (Sarah Desjardins). After confessions of homicide and a few run-ins with smarmy cops, the Sadecki household has by no means been nearer. Plus, they’ve efficiently escaped police scrutiny because of Walter’s (Elijah Wooden) assist. With all that chaos behind them, hopefully they’ll take a while for regular bonding. This being Yellowjackets, although, there isn’t any method normalcy is on the docket. Jeff’s horrifying dream sequence of Shauna Scissorhands means that he could worry her extra sooner or later, whereas Callie’s spectacular Season 2 arc hints at her embracing extra of her personal Shauna-esque wildness.

8. Will Misty and Walter get collectively?

A man in a purple button-up hands someone a green mug.

Elijah Wooden in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / Showtime

Look, Misty is coping with lots proper now, so I perceive if she would not need to bounce right into a relationship simply but. That being mentioned, I desperately hope my oddball detective ship will get collectively quickly, as a result of Walter and Misty simply full one another! Misty concerned Walter in an thrilling case, whereas Walter helped her and her associates escape from a sticky state of affairs with the police. Real love, everybody! Sometime, I hope the 2 of them can trip off into the sundown collectively, singing present tunes and fixing mysteries (with Caligula alongside for the trip, in fact).

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‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, episode 4: Misty and Walter are an oddball ship for the ages

9. Is Taissa’s spouse, Simone, alive?

A woman in a flannel shirt crosses her arms.

Tawny Cypress in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / Showtime

We’ve not heard from Tai’s spouse, Simone (Rukiya Bernard), because the pair’s automotive crash, as Tai spent the remainder of the season reuniting with Van and the opposite Yellowjackets. Since Tai and Van nonetheless seem to have emotions for one another, there is a excessive chance that Yellowjackets will discover the unfastened thread of Simone — in addition to her and Tai’s son Sammy (Aiden Stoxx) — in Season 3. In spite of everything, Tai is essentially the most public-facing of the Yellowjackets as a state senator. How will her retreat to Lottie’s wellness neighborhood and presence at Nat’s loss of life influence her household life and profession?

10. Is the wilderness really appeased?

A young woman with a bruised and bloody face lying on the floor wrapped in a blanket.

Courtney Eaton in “Yellowjackets.”
Credit score: Kimberley French / Showtime

The hunt for Shauna didn’t go as deliberate, but when Lottie is to be believed, Nat’s loss of life nonetheless gave the wilderness what it needed. Does that imply the surviving Yellowjackets will discover peace once more? And if that is the case, how lengthy will or not it’s till the darkish forces of the wilderness demand blood as soon as extra? There is no method that biding time between sacrificial rituals is a sustainable answer for any of those girls, in order Yellowjackets enters its third season, a serious query stays: How will the Yellowjackets rid themselves of the darkness they introduced again?

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Originally posted 2023-05-26 05:00:00.

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