In “Yellowjackets” season 2, episode 6 — “Qui” — Ben’s phantasm is beginning to collapse. He tries to run away into it whereas Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) is in labor. Regardless of overlaying his ears and shutting his eyes, he cannot fairly escape. The imagined room he and Paul are in is midway between a suburban lounge and the cabin; the left-hand wall is the cabin’s entrance door and the again wall is the cabin’s fire blended along with a bookshelf.
Does the tip of Ben’s hallucinations portend his personal finish? There are few issues I am sure of in “Yellowjackets,” however Ben finally dying is one in every of them. He is one of many 1996 characters who hasn’t proven up within the current day. Since he wants crutches to stroll, it’s going to even be onerous for him to combat again or run away if the women get hungry once more.
Throughout an interview with TV Insider, Krueger indicated that Ben cannot even rely Natalie as a real ally — is their friendship headed for a breaking level? The lack of an grownup authority determine can be a wanted tipping level for the Yellowjackets to devolve into savagery as we glimpsed within the pilot.
It is easy to image a scene the place Ben dies after which his closing ideas are the imagined Paul fading away without end. Nonetheless, “Yellowjackets” is commonly a present that zigs whenever you assume it’s going to zag. Perhaps Ben’s failing creativeness will as a substitute be the wake-up name he must stay within the second and survive. We’ll have to attend and see.
New episodes of “Yellowjackets” stream on Showtime each Friday and air on tv each Sunday.