The teenage cast of Yellowjackets (Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Samantha Hanratty and Sophie Thatcher)
Unlike its other present-day storyline, the past timeline in Yellowjackets captures the isolation the team experiences. We've learned to adapt to the strange circumstances of the wilderness just like they have, which makes it all the more shocking when a man shows up right in the middle of their latest death ritual.
Not only does it go against everything we were led to believe about this group's time in the wilderness, but it also raises serious questions about what their response is going to be. Although one might think the girls would leap at the chance to finally return home, there is evidence to suggest otherwise, as they're not the same people they were when they crashed in the Canadian wilderness a year ago. Given the very nature of Yellowjackets' story, their rescue is a foregone conclusion, but that outcome is still likely a ways away, and what happens next will likely explain a lot about why the team is so desperate to keep the past dead and buried. Until Now, the Yellowjackets Have Been Defined by Their Isolation Close One thing we need to remember when talking about the team in the past is just how long they spent out there alone in the wilderness. In the pilot, an older Shauna remarks that they were stranded for about eighteen months, and the results largely speak for themselves in the present day. While much has been said about the girls devolving either spiritually or emotionally, they've also changed socially in ways that we are only now starting to see after so many months spent in isolation. They initially lost Jackie as their leader, and it was largely because she refused to adapt to this new world they had created. Within only a couple of months, she went from Queen Bee to an outcast, and rejected anything that might appear supernatural. Instead, the team finds another Antler Queen in Natalie during the winter, becoming more inclined to embrace a strange belief system that no one on the outside could ever truly begin to comprehend. By the start of Season 3, nearly a year since the plane crash, what was once just a soccer team has gradually mutated into a society of its own, one that still remains hidden from the outside world. Alongside their faith, they've formed their own laws, and it appears that many of their basic needs have largely been met. Even after the burning of the cabin, which set the girls back to square one, they've been able to adapt relatively quickly, and the idea of being rescued seems to have largely faded from their minds. Now, when an individual actually has come along, it feels incredibly foreign to the group. The appearance of an outsider is also meant to be jarring for the audience, who have been drilled to expect no one to appear in the past until the team's ultimate rescue. While Season 3 has already been willing to take some big risks, this twist is different from the others because it completely upends the accepted narrative about what happened out there. For the first time since the plane crash, the team is now faced with a direct challenge to their way of life, even if it comes in the guise of a helping hand. This moment could not have come at a more crucial time, since the death of Coach Ben risks cutting their ties with the last remaining memory they have of the modern world. To be sure, cults and cannibalism are common, but neither has become truly embraced yet other than as a necessity, and now the girls might have a chance to return to their old lives. More than any other decision, what they do now will serve as an inflection point, one which will define what they have become and if they can turn back. Related “We Bought Tombstones”: Won't Be the Only Death in 'Yellowjackets' Season 3 Fans are in for even more heartache this season. Posts 1 The Yellowjackets Now Have Way Out — But Will They Take It? When considering whether the Yellowjackets would welcome rescue at this point, the assumption would be yes. Even now, as a shocked Van notes after finding Ben dead, they still had hopes that the wilderness would let them go home if they kept him alive. How much of their predicament is supernatural remains open to interpretation for characters and viewers alike, but that hope is now tangible in the form of a flesh-and-blood newcomer, and it seems obvious that they would leap at the first chance to return home. However, when one takes a closer look at the situation, there is also reason to doubt. The show has already offered a precedent of the girls deliberately missing chances to escape the wilderness, starting with Misty secretly destroying the black box just a couple of days after the plane crash. Not only is it a case of emotions overriding logic, but it's also a clear display of someone desperate to preserve their new social status, given that she was bullied until her medical training proved crucial to their survival. If one girl feels more at home in the wild after just a few days, how exactly would each of them feel after an entire year? There is a very good chance they might have no desire to go back after forming their own society, and could prove hostile to any potential outsiders. Assuming the girls do decide they don't want any others around, this new guy is probably a dead man, and it might explain why the Yellowjackets are desperate to keep everything secret as adults. Eating each other for survival is one thing, but killing those who could have saved you because the wilderness gods wanted it is quite another, and it feels much less sympathetic. Already, the girls have some sense of what is out there, and they might want that knowledge to stay within their own group. When they say no one else can understand what they went through, perhaps they deliberately kept it that way. Whether They Like It Or Not, Society Is Coming For the Yellowjackets There is another reason why the team might not be out of the woods yet, and it involves timing. Most notably, we've not yet reached the opening scene of the pilot, where the Yellowjackets descend to their lowest and resort to hunting each other for sport. Winter is still a few weeks away, and we know they will have to endure at least one more before being rescued. Ironically, if the newcomer proves to be lunch meat, it's possible that the rescue team was looking for him instead of the girls, who would long be presumed dead by now. Of course, we as the audience know the Yellowjackets will be rescued and this new society they've built cannot truly last, but it's become their entire world. Most of them have changed, not usually for the better, and immense damage has been done. They might return to what we would call normal lives, but they're never able to truly be normal again in a world they no longer recognize. Even putting aside the recent murders, their ghosts still haunt them, and now we're seeing them struggle with issues that have plagued them all their adult lives. It's never easy to leave a way of life behind, but when rescue does finally come, they'll all have to go by force. Rather than simply liberating, it might instead come off as bittersweet, and it will be the start of a journey that remains unfinished. We don't know yet if this new arrival on Yellowjackets is totally doomed, but if this turns out to be the case, it would prove how much the girls have fallen from the simple high school clique they once were. They've already lost their innocence, but such an act would serve as proof that there really is no going back to the world they knew, at least until it comes to them instead. The wilderness is not just a phase in their lives, but rather the defining part of it, and we just might be about to see why. After all, there is only one thing worse than being marooned by civilization, and that is losing your own humanity.Your Rating close 10 stars 9 stars 8 stars 7 stars 6 stars 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Rate Now 0/10 Your comment has not been saved Yellowjackets TV-MA Drama Mystery Horror 9.4/10 Release Date November 14, 2021 Network Showtime, Paramount+ with Showtime Showrunner Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Jonathan Lisco Directors Benjamin Semanoff, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Deepa Mehta, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Liz Garbus, Scott Winant, Eva Sørhaug, Jamie Travis Writers Liz Phang, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa Cast See All A wildly talented high school girls' soccer team become the unlucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.
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