Buzz buzz! It is Season 2 and our misplaced soccer workforce of Yellowjackets are nonetheless smack bang in the course of the Canadian wilderness within the ’90s previous, and making an attempt valiantly to maintain their heads above water within the prevailing mysteries of the current.
For Season 1’s riveting finale, we heaped our plates with theories, lots of which we requested showrunner and government producer Jonathan Lisco about. However there are various questions we nonetheless have. Did Lottie survive, and is she a cult chief? Who wrote the unauthorized Yellowjackets e-book? Will Shauna and Misty get away with homicide(s)?
We have put collectively an epic rundown of every thing you could keep in mind from Season 1, so when you’re up to the mark, listed below are the large questions we have now for Season 2.
Is Lottie a cult chief now?
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It took till the Season 1 finale, however we lastly bought a significant clue confirming Lottie (Courtney Eaton) survived the wilderness and could also be as much as one thing. Because of Natalie’s childhood finest buddy and now detective Kevyn Tan (Alex Wyndham) and her sponsor Suzie (Colleen Wheeler), she finds out grownup Lottie (Simone Kessell in Season 2) was the one who emptied Travis’ (Andres Soto) checking account after he died. Did Lottie have something to do with Travis’ demise? What’s her plan with all that cash? Nicely, within the Season 2 trailer, we get one other clue, as Lotti seems to be working some type of luxe cult in a lakeside spot within the woods.
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This future for Lottie is sensible; her more and more distinguished “visions” and potential as a religious chief crescendoed in Season 1, seeing her lastly don the Antler Queen crown amid the shrooms of the “Doomcoming” episode. Over the sequence, Lottie’s reference to spirituality appears initially distant at finest, nevertheless it shortly intensifies. She’s the primary of the Yellowjackets to seek out one of many apotropaic symbols within the woods, and she or he naturally strikes into the position of divine sage after just a few prophetic experiences. Within the season finale, Lottie makes a ritual providing of a bear’s coronary heart to the woods, saying, “Shed blood, my lovely associates, and let the darkness set us free.” Lottie’s path to creating ritualistic observe dominant appears set — however did it comply with her again to the current?
Who wrote the unauthorised Yellowjackets e-book?
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Somebody wrote a e-book in regards to the Yellowjackets’ time within the wilderness, and it does not appear to have been Taissa (Tawny Cypress), Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), Misty (Christina Ricci), or Natalie. StarLedger journalist-in-disguise Jessica Roberts (Rekha Sharma) approached all 4 in Season 1 for a seven-figure deal. Nevertheless, below interrogation by Misty, Jessica admits Taissa employed her to research each returning Yellowjacket and tempt them with a e-book deal to see their response.
However regardless of this e-book being a ruse, there’s an actual, although unofficial Yellowjackets e-book on the market — Shauna finds a replica of Pores and skin within the Recreation: The Unauthorized Story of Flight 2525 in her lover Adam Martin’s (Peter Gadiot’s) studio, hidden in a drawer. Sadly, Shauna stabs him earlier than we get a greater look inside that e-book. So, who wrote it? We do not actually know what’s detailed within the pages, however it could’t be massively near the reality as the primary Yellowjackets within the sequence are nonetheless making an attempt to guard that — Shauna retains her journal below lock and key, however perhaps another person wrote all of it down?
Will Shauna get away with homicide?
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Adam’s previous wasn’t including up when Shauna did some digging, and that unlucky copy of Pores and skin within the Recreation led her to the improper conclusion that Adam was the blackmailer — when it was really her husband Jeff (Warren Kole) all alongside. However will she get away along with his homicide? Shauna has a slew of accomplices now; Taissa, Natalie, and Misty helped her clear up her crime after Jeff instructed Shauna inform her teammates Adam was the blackmailer, seemingly clearing them each of wrongdoing.
Within the trailer for Season 2, we spy a bunch of cops led by Kevyn standing on the entrance door to Shauna and Jeff’s home, which could imply they are not precisely out of the woods (too quickly?). Within the season finale, Adam’s disappearance hits the headlines as Jeff and Shauna are watching TV with their daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins), who immediately recognises Adam from the artwork faculty occasion Shauna hauled her house from. Within the trailer, it appears Shauna confesses the homicide to Callie, so we’re eager to see what Callie does with this notably unsettling data.
Will homicide additionally come again to hang-out Misty?
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Throughout her work for Taissa, non-public investigator Jessica Roberts meets a sticky finish in Season 1 after Misty holds her hostage in her basement with the intention of securing a confession to the postcard blackmail and Travis’ homicide. Because of Shauna’s lie, Misty thinks Adam is the blackmailer and the state of affairs sorted. However she murders Jessica anyway, releasing her however lethally lacing her cigarettes with Fentanyl. Jessica’s demise would possibly seem like a drug overdose to the cops, however will Misty outrun investigation?
What really occurred to Travis?
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The thriller surrounding Travis’ (Andres Soto’s) demise in Season 1 did not get totally resolved, so we anticipate extra investigation into this in Season 2. With the assistance of on-line “citizen detective” Misty, his former lover and finest buddy Natalie tragically finds a lacking Travis in episode 3, seemingly having died by suicide because the police later deduce. However Natalie immediately suspects homicide, and Natalie and Misty spend most of Season 1 making an attempt to determine it out, discovering a word studying “Inform Nat she was proper” in his home and figuring out there have been candles organized (then subsequently eliminated) within the form of that ominous image from the wilderness.
Beneath interrogation by Misty, Jessica reveals she visited Travis at his home earlier than he was killed (working as a non-public investigator for Taissa) however he refused to speak to her. After listening to of his demise, Jessica investigated — determining his checking account was emptied and closed after his demise. “Whoever has that cash most likely killed Travis,” she says. As a part of her personal investigation, Natalie mainly blackmails her sponsor to look into Travis’ drained financial institution accounts, and within the finale, she calls, reporting, “I believe somebody’s following me. Who the fuck is Lottie Matthews?” suggesting it was Lottie who emptied it. So what the hell has Lottie bought to do with Travis’ demise?
Who kidnapped Natalie?
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Within the Season 1 finale, Natalie’s personal demise is interrupted when she’s kidnapped by individuals sporting purple and smuggled right into a van painted with that unusual image we have seen all season. Natalie’s sponsor calls her proper earlier than the second of abduction and mentions Lottie Matthews. Has Lottie kidnapped Natalie utilizing her purple-clad followers? And if that’s the case, why? This looks as if a case for a sure citizen detective…
The place’s Javi?
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Javi (Luciano Leroux) has been lacking for the reason that “Doomcoming”, and it is unclear whether or not he is nonetheless alive. Having been shroom-drugged by Misty, the workforce bought bizarre, danced round a bit, and tried to assault Travis. Throughout a terrifying hunt via the woods, Shauna stumbled on Javi, who she instructed to “run”. Since then, we do not know the place he’s, if he is alright, or whether or not he is discovered assist, however Travis is set to seek out him — and Natalie is set to assist him.
Will anybody ever determine what Misty did after the crash?
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In case you’ve got forgotten, Misty doomed the Yellowjackets to their lengthy stint within the wilderness from the beginning. In episode 2, instantly after the crash, Misty springs into motion whereas others are processing their shock, delivering medical support specifically to Coach Ben Scott (Steven Krueger) who suffers a horrific leg amputation. Taking a leak, Misty finds the aircraft’s flight recorder, aka the black field. However alas, she additionally overhears her teammates saying, “We’d be so fully fucked if she wasn’t right here.” Misty decides she’s by no means had extra energy or felt so valued in her life, so destroys any risk of shedding it. Will anybody ever return to the aircraft web site and discover the recorder’s pulverised stays? What is going to occur after it is revealed?
Will Shauna have her child this season?
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Teen Shauna’s being pregnant (Sophie Nélisse) is each a looming problem and supply of deep guilt for her in Season 1, and it is probably she’ll be just about prepared to present start in Season 2. Sure, it is Jeff’s child (Jack DePew), her finest buddy Jackie’s (Ella Purnell’s) boyfriend who she was sleeping with earlier than they crashed. The workforce is stranded within the wilderness for 19 months, and Shauna realises she’s pregnant mere weeks into their time within the cabin. So should you do the mathematics, Shauna’s going to have this child midway via their time within the woods. Does that imply Season 2?
Will Taissa acquire management of her alter ego?
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Taissa’s sleeping awakeness hasn’t been resolved but, and solely appeared to worsen throughout Season 1, together with her son Sammy (Aidan Stoxx) referring to her unconscious self as “the dangerous one” or “the woman within the tree.” We nonetheless haven’t fairly discovered who the person with no eyes is, the presence seemingly inherited from her dying grandmother. There’s been some creepy basement altars constructed and Biscuit sacrifices found (justice for Biscuit), so Taissa’s spouse Simone (Rukiya Bernard) leaves with Sammy within the season finale. However will Taissa discover a option to management her sleeping self? And…does she really not know what’s taking place when she’s asleep?
“Once we started the story, she wasn’t even conscious that she was the woman within the tree, proper?” showrunner and government producer Jonathan Lisco instructed Mashable final 12 months. “She wasn’t conscious that she was who Sammy was seeing out his window or that this sleepwalking-channeled trauma was nonetheless plaguing her in 2021. Now, the query is: Did she actually not understand it?”
“As soon as we undergo the arc of her season and attain that stunning shot, the place Taissa has that look of reckoning and understanding on her face as she is realizing that she has this altar in her home simply as Simone discovers it, I believe what we’re asking is, ‘Ought to we be actually fearful about her now?’ As a result of now Taissa is seeing some great benefits of having this darkish alter ego, whereas earlier than she was pondering it was merely a nasty factor. However now shifting into Season 2, is it one thing that she might selectively faucet into to realize sure issues in her life?”
How will the workforce take care of Jackie’s demise?
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Jackie’s demise within the season finale is among the most important moments within the sequence — the Yellowjackets’ captain hath fallen. It is a sequence of unlucky occasions main as much as Jackie’s tragic freezing to demise outdoors the cabin, however the truth that not one workforce member goes outdoors to examine she’s OK within the chilly, and Jackie’s personal stubbornness, imply she’s left to the weather. Precisely how the workforce, notably Shauna, will take care of her demise will probably start the sequence, and gas their decisions from there.
Will Van get her pretzel in New York?
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In episode 7, when Van (Liv Hewson) is insisting on becoming a member of Taissa on her quest to go south and discover assist, Van opens up a bit and tells Tai what she desires to do when she will get the hell out of the woods. “I need to go to New York with you, and I need to purchase you a fucking mushy pretzel, and I need to take you on a f**king horse and carriage experience via Central Park.” Season 2 will allow us to meet grown up Van (performed by Lauren Ambrose) nevertheless it’s unclear what she’s been as much as and the way her relationship with Taissa ended.
Who’s Elijah Wooden taking part in?
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Elijah Wooden is a extremely welcome addition to the solid for Yellowjackets in Season 2, and it seems he is teaming up with Misty. The present’s official social media accounts(Opens in a brand new tab) posted a picture of Wooden and Ricci, welcoming Wooden’s character Walter “to the Bureau of Citizen Detectives.” So, it appears to be like like Misty may need a sleuth pal.
What precisely is the darkness within the woods?
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It is nonetheless unclear what darkish forces lurk within the woods, however they’re certain to proceed to construct energy in Season 2 because the workforce’s starvation grows. Yellowjackets’ core thriller hinges across the dance between supernatural forces and the facility of worry, whether or not the darkness is in somebody’s thoughts or strikes externally — and the position trauma performs in its energy.
The “one thing lurking within the woods” thriller will proceed in Season 2, because the creepy symbols proceed exhibiting up within the current. However what precisely is that this energy? Lottie continuously talks in regards to the darkness within the wilderness “being in all of you.” Throughout the seance scene, she repeats the phrases, “It desires…It desires…It desires…hungry,” earlier than talking French about one thing wanting blood and declaring “You need to spill blood or else.” Contemplating the ultimate second of Season 1, and Lottie’s declaration (“Shed blood, my lovely associates, and let the darkness set us free.”) we’re in for an entire lot extra sacrificing if we’re gonna get to the Pit Lady ritualistic cannibalism scene from Season 1, episode 1.
How will the large rescue occur (and the way can we get, uh, right here…)?
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Because of Misty’s malicious meddling, we all know the Yellowjackets spend precisely 19 months within the wilderness with out being rescued. We all know they do get rescued in fact, however precisely how this occurs stays to be seen — and we nonetheless do not understand how we get to that first ever scene from Season 1 earlier than the rescue. Are we certain that is Lottie working the present? What in regards to the pink Converse? How the hell will anybody really discover them whereas they’re working round having fun with their woodland peril? It is going to be one large second once they lastly get out of there — whether or not it occurs this season although stays to be seen.
Yellowjackets Season 2 begins streaming March 24 on Showtime, with new episodes streaming weekly on Fridays(Opens in a brand new tab). Episodes additionally air each Sunday on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET, beginning March 26.