Like protein-packed scorching meals within the frozen wilderness, concrete Yellowjackets solutions are fairly powerful to come back by.
And we wouldn’t count on something much less from the intricately woven, presumably supernatural Showtime collection, which wrapped in its second season Sunday. In any case, thriller is on the coronary heart of the drama, which unfolds in two timelines: Precisely what occurred after a airplane full of highschool soccer gamers crashed within the Canadian Rockies in 1996, and the way is that have nonetheless affecting the survivors of their present-day lives?
Now that Season 2 is as executed as Nat is (too quickly?), we’ve pulled collectively a rundown of the present’s largest questions. Amongst them, in no explicit order: Have we met everybody who made it again to suburban New Jersey after the horrific accident? Is Mari experiencing auditory hallucinations or sensing a portent of dying? The place the heck was Javi all that point? Is the Antler Queen who all of us suppose it’s? And what about that woman within the pit?
Our listing goes on… however we’re certain that you’ve obtained Yellowjackets questions you’d like answered, too, in addition to theories to share. So if there’s one thing you don’t see outlined under, make like citizen detective and shout it out within the feedback.
Scroll right down to see our queries, beginning with…
Who was the man in Jackie’s dream?
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Showtime As Jackie was freezing to dying within the Season 1 finale, she had a dream by which her teammates — together with the deceased Laura Lee — welcomed her again into the cabin. In that imaginative and prescient, a person stood in the back of the room and stated, “So glad you’re becoming a member of us. We’ve been ready for you.” Within the present’s press supplies, the character known as merely “Hunter,” and a few followers have theorized that he’s the person whom the women discovered lifeless within the cabin earlier within the season, and presumably the identical one who beforehand piloted the small airplane that Laura Lee later tried to make use of to flee.
When TVLine requested collection creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson about whether or not the mysterious man could have significance shifting ahead, they confirmed that he would. “We undoubtedly know who he’s, yeah, and we now have an entire factor [planned],” Nickerson added.
What is the story behind the No-Eyed Man?
Picture Credit score: Showtime Display Shot The slender, creepy specter was a part of Tai’s life lengthy earlier than her soccer group crashed into the Canadian Rockies: In Season 1, Episode 3, a flashback exhibits us younger Tai getting a daunting glimpse of him in a mirror as her ailing grandmother is dying. Later within the season, as she’s speaking to reporters exterior her dwelling in Episode 5, he exhibits up briefly throughout the road — although if Tai sees him then, she doesn’t react. Thus far in Season 2, he’s led a not-in-control-of-herself Tai by way of the woods (and nearly to her dying) through the flashback timeline, following a path which will or will not be associated to the stick figure-like symbols carved into the timber.
Don’t count on a fast decision to this thriller, says Tawny Cypress, who performs Taissa as an grownup. The ghastly determine received’t “determine lots in Season 2,” she not too long ago advised us. “The truth is, Taissa’s entire story doesn’t determine lots in Season 2. You’re going to have to attend at the very least till Season 3 to get some actual solutions on what’s happening along with her.” If it helps in any respect, Cypress is true there with you: “The person with no eyes, he’s a thriller to all of us at this level,” she stated.
Why was that one tree thawed?
Picture Credit score: Showtime Display Shot When Natalie and Travis are out searching/on the lookout for Javi, she comes throughout a tree that’s surprisingly thawed regardless of the snow and ice surrounding it. The moss is even a vibrant, summery inexperienced! The present clearly needs us to concentrate: Nat stops, appears to be like on the tree for a second and notes how bizarre it appears.
Some followers have theorized that maybe the warmth that melted all the things across the tree is coming from an underground supply, probably a tunnel or bunker akin to the one by which Lottie lit candles through the imaginative and prescient she had when Laura Lee baptized her in Season 1. This leads properly into our subsequent query…
UPDATE: As Coach Ben realized in Episode 8, the bottom of the tree hid the doorway to an underground hole that was heat, and that held (amongst different issues) rope and matches. Javi knew in regards to the cave-like construction, too — sheltering there may be doubtless how he stayed alive throughout his absence from the cabin — and he was almost certainly attempting to steer Natalie there when she was chased by the remainder of the group in Episode 8.
The place was Javi when he was lacking?
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Showtime … how within the heck did Travis’ little brother, Javier, survive within the frigid chilly with out meals or shelter for weeks on finish? The youthful Martinez was gone for 2 months after the ill-fated Doomcoming in Season 1, but he appears wholesome and entire — if unwilling/unable to speak — when he’s present in Season 2’s fourth episode.
Would possibly Javi have hidden someplace heat, just like the aforementioned and extremely hypothetical tunnels/bunker? In any case, simply moments earlier than they stumble throughout him, Van and Tai do discover that the ice within the space appears to be melting.
UPDATE: As we famous within the earlier slide, based mostly on the occasions of Episode 8, it seems that Javi was hiding out within the cave underneath the nice and cozy tree.
Who’s the Antler Queen?
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Showtime There’s lots to counsel that the masked woman carrying the antlers within the collection’ very first episode, aka the one who appears to be answerable for the barbaric strategy of killing and consuming one other woman, is Lottie. In any case, because the collection progresses, each her supernatural leanings and her capacity to command loyalty have grown by the episode. The current-day timeline additionally appears to trace at Lottie’s queenly standing: She’s the chief of a cult (OK, OK, “retreat middle”) who has antlers hanging on the constructing she calls dwelling.
That stated: A lot can occur between from time to time within the flashback timeline, so it’s fully doable that one other woman can and can assume the spiky crown. All we all know for certain is that it isn’t Misty, who’s proven taking off a totally different masks on the finish of that sequence within the collection premiere.
UPDATE: The occasions of the Season 2 finale point out that Natalie was an Antler Queen — however was she the Antler Queen we see within the collection premiere? (Christina Ricci certain thinks so.)
Who’s the woman within the pit?
Picture Credit score: Showtime Display Shot Early guesses on this one pointed to Jackie, provided that the woman who’s chased to her dying within the collection’ premiere is carrying Jackie’s gold necklace. However the jewellery has modified palms a number of occasions since then: Jackie put it on a scared Shauna on the airplane (“It’s mainly a good-luck attraction. Now, nothing can contact you.” Eep!), and Lottie made certain that Shauna got here into possession of it after Jackie died. Given the pit sufferer’s hair and pores and skin shade and general construct, we’re guessing that possibly Mari winds up impaled on the backside of the outlet?
Have we met all the survivors?
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Showtime Along with the women within the photograph above, we additionally know that Van, Lottie and Travis survived the group’s trial within the wilderness, although Travis is not with us. That leaves an enormous query mark regarding Mari, Crystal, Gen, Akilah, Melissa, Javi and Coach Ben. A rewatch of the slide present at the highschool reunion within the Season 1 finale doesn’t shed many clues, however are you able to actually depend on accuracy in a multimedia presentation constructed by somebody who begins their speech with, “Worddefinition.internet defines a reunion as a union that’s taking place once more”?
Why is Mari the one one who can hear dripping within the cabin?
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Showtime Perhaps we’ve simply been studying an excessive amount of Outlander. However there’s a Scottish superstition that claims the sound of dripping water in a home portends an imminent dying… and that’s all we are able to take into consideration each time Mari is the one one within the cabin who hears that incessant, and as-yet unidentified, sound.
UPDATE: In Episode 8, Tai additionally hears the dripping noise, after which Mari hallucinates blood dripping from the wall the place the noticed, knives and different sharp devices are saved.
What does that image imply?
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Showtime The image that confirmed up on the blackmail notes (good contact, Jeff) additionally seems carved into timber within the Canadian wilderness and is, in actual fact, the form by which these carved timber are laid out. However what the heck does it imply? Is it a way of safety, like Lottie guessed? An invocation of evil, as others have puzzled? And, uh, what is that form, precisely?
What occurred to Shauna’s child?
Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Showtime Callie, a youngster, is simply too younger to be the newborn that Shauna’s carrying within the wilderness. (That child can be in its mid-20s at present.) And it’s now a matter of document that the survivors received’t chow down on the toddler if/when it’s born. Phew. So… what turns into of Jeff and Shauna’s love baby? Would possibly we get to satisfy the littlest survivor within the present-day storyline sometime?
UPDATE: In Episode 6, Shauna has a stillbirth; her son didn’t survive. Provided that it looks like she delivered the placenta first, it seems that she suffered a placental abruption.
Is the supernatural actually at play?
Picture Credit score: Showtime Display Shot Sure, there could be some otherworldly entity insinuating itself into the hearts and minds of the crash survivors, and that entity could be sturdy sufficient to keep up a lifelong presence. However when you think about what we all know to be true — that these women are scared and ravenous, and that a few of them had psychological well being points lengthy earlier than they boarded that non-public jet — isn’t it simply as believable (if no more so) that circumstance and coincidence are making them suppose, hear, see and really feel issues that aren’t actually there?
That stated: All of that stuff that occurred when Lottie all of the sudden began talking French after which smashed her head into the window on the seance? Creepy as hell.
UPDATE: The Season 2 finale options this interplay between Shauna and Lottie that we expect is slightly attention-grabbing. Lottie is referring to the wilderness and its sway over the group. SHAUNA: You already know there’s no “it,” proper? It was simply us! LOTTIE: Is there a distinction?
