Warning: This story comprises spoilers from season 2 of Yellowjackets.
No going again now. Yellowjackets took issues to the subsequent stage by having the stranded group lastly feast on their first human meal — which turned out to be Jackie (Ella Purnell).
Throughout the brand new episode, which aired on Friday, March 31, Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) saved talking to her late pal as if she was nonetheless alive. After Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown) discovered Jackie’s corpse coated in make-up and moved, she determined that they might cremate her to assist Shauna transfer on. Though Shauna initially parted methods with Jackie, a mysterious gust of wind blew a ton of snow simply because the physique was completely cooked by the fireplace.
The women (and Travis) famous that the odor was calling to them to feast on their pal. Yellowjackets launched a sequence that shifted backwards and forwards between the group’s brutal meal and a hallucination of the ladies decked out in Renaissance apparel having fun with fruit and wine. Coach Ben Scott (Steven Krueger), nonetheless, watched in horror as his college students happy their starvation.
Earlier than the hit Showtime sequence returned for its second season, showrunner Jonathan Lisco confirmed that viewers would lastly see the second the group descends into cannibalism.
“If we do our job proper, the consuming of an individual is not going to be probably the most transgressive factor that these younger ladies do within the wilderness,” he advised Leisure Weekly earlier this month. “That’s simply the tip of the iceberg.”
The screenwriter mentioned it was vital to construct as much as the darkish flip, including, “If season 1 was about our teen characters studying to adapt to their harsh environment, season 2 is the place all of it simply actually explodes. Every one in all them is gonna make selections that they by no means dreamed potential. And, and as we lower ahead 25 years, we’re gonna watch these horrible actions floor in ways in which I might say irrevocably modified the destiny of their lives.”
Nélisse, 23, beforehand hinted that followers weren’t prepared for the twists and turns in season. “There’s scenes in season 2 which might be graphic, to say the least, and I bear in mind simply doing it, and [the cast] all sat and checked out one another, and we had been like ‘What the f—ok are we doing. Like, actually, what the fuck are we doing,” the actress, who performs teen Shauna, mentioned throughout a panel in December 2022. “You’ll have a look at it, and also you’ll perceive, however I don’t assume you’ve ever seen such a scene in TV earlier than.”
In keeping with the Canada native, the season will proceed to build-up to an sudden repay. “Once I learn this particular episode, I bear in mind being terrified,” Nélisse advised Selection that very same month. “Episode 6 — it will get very intense. I learn it, and I used to be like, very excited, after which instantly sobbed. I used to be speaking to my psychologist, and I used to be like, ‘I can’t do it, I’m not ok for this.’ I used to be freaking out.”
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