(L-R): Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress and Melanie Lynskey on Yellowjackets.Photo: Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME
This article contains spoilers forYellowjacketsseason 1.
Yellowjacketsmay have one season in the bag, but we’re not out of the wilderness just yet.
Showtime’s hit series ended season 1 on a strong note with Sunday’s finale that left as many mysteries as it cleared up. After the showreceived an early renewallast month for season 2, there are plenty of burning questions to be answered.
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Sunday’s finale peeled back another layer in the mystery, while giving the show’s fans something to look forward to in season 2. Here are some burning questions they’re sure to have.
Who is the Antler Queen?
Others have guessed that the team turns on Lottie and eats her in that opening scene, which leaves the question of who takes over as the Antler Queen. But the finale hints that Lottie is alive and well in the present.
Who Gets Eaten?
After the pilot’s opening sequence revealed one of the Yellowjackets gets hunted down, killed and bled out, it’s safe to assume that the backwoods charcuterie board Misty (Hanratty) was serving to the group moments later is the meat of one of their teammates.
But again, with everyone except Misty wearing masks, fans are wondering who ends up on the (literal) chopping block.
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After having an affair with her best friend Jackie’s (Purnell) boyfriend Jeff (Jack DePew), teenage Shauna (Nélisse) reveals to her fellow stranded teammates that she’s pregnant and lies about the father’s identity.
Although present-day Shauna (Lynskey) and Jeff (Warren Kole) have a picture-perfect life with their daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins), she appears to be in high school, making her too young to have been born in 1996. Could Shauna’s long lost child be out there? Could they be behind some of the show’s other mysteries?
Let’s hope that hunger-induced dream Shauna had of giving birth to a rotisserie chicken wasn’t foreshadowing what’s to come.
Why Is Taissa Sleepwalking and Having Visions?
In addition to having a waking vision of a wolf walking through a campaign event, Taissa (Cypress) begins exhibiting other behavior from her time in the wilderness, including sleepwalking, tree-climbing and dirt-eating.
After she and her wife Simone (Rukiya Bernard) struggle with their son Sammy’s (Aiden Stoxx) behavioral issues and his disturbing drawings, Taissa discovers that she might be the woman that he claims is watching him from the tree outside his bedroom when he’s asleep. And she may or may not have sacrificed and eaten their dog during one such sleepwalking episode.
Will Shauna Get Away with Killing Adam?
In the penultimate episode, Shauna finds evidence that appears to point to her new boyfriend Adam (Peter Gadiot) as the group’s menacing stalker. During a heated confrontation, she stabs and kills Adam, only to learn that her husband Jeff was the one blackmailing her friends all along — part of a plot to help him quietly pay off a loan shark.
Callie appears to be catching on after recognizing Adam in a missing persons report, having previously run into him with her mom at a Halloween party. Meanwhile, Shauna is already racked with guilt over her fatal mistake, which she can’t share with Taissa, Natalie (Lewis) and Misty (Ricci), whom she led to believe that Adam was their stalker.
Although they enlisted Misty’s expert fixing skills to help them get rid of the body, will it be enough to keep their names clear?
Who killed Travis?
After Natalie finds her ride-or-die and fellow survivor Travis (Andres Soto, Kevin Alves) dead from an apparent suicide earlier in the season, she begins digging deeper. Since Travis made a promise to her when she was at her lowest, she’s convinced he never would have killed himself.
With the timing of their mysterious blackmail coming shortly before Travis' death and someone closing his bank account immediately after, Natalie concludes that their stalker and the killer are one and the same. But after Shauna finds out Jeff was behind the blackmailing, which she ultimately blames on Adam, it’s safe to assume that Travis' killer is still out there.
The finale ends with Natalie getting a panicked voicemail from her friend looking into Travis' death, in which the contact drops Lottie’s name.
What’s up with the mysterious symbol and this cult?
Since they first crashed in the Canadian wilderness, the Yellowjackets come across the same mysterious symbol on multiple occasions. The show also hints at some sort of pagan survivalist cult already living in the woods, as the girls slowly devolve into their own cannibalistic tribe.
The symbol returns 25 years later in the threatening postcards their stalker sends them, although that’s soon confirmed to be Shauna’s husband Jeff, who found the symbol in her journals. But remnants of the symbol also come up at the scene of Travis' death, which appears to be the working of a cult-like ritual.
Which other Yellowjackets survived the wilderness and where are they now?
Although the finale confirmed that Jackie meets a tragic frozen death in the snowy wilderness, the present-day characters have alluded to other survivors who are living quiet lives elsewhere.
With Laura Lee (Jane Widdop) dying in her ill-advised rescue mission and at least one victim of cannibalism likely to be revealed, it’s a guessing game as to who else makes it out alive. After the finale hinted that Lottie is still around, could more present-day Yellowjackets emerge in season 2?
source: people.com
