The finale of Yellowjackets aired this Sunday and resolved several mysteries while birthing new ones. It is a thriller horror with some teen drama thrown into the pot that is slowly transmogrifying into a folk-horror gorefest.
Here are the scenes from Yellowjackets that really hit home.
🚨Warning: Spoilers about Season One of Yellowjackets ahead!
1. The series opens with a chilling scene of a girl sprinting barefoot through the snowy and eerie wilderness, who then falls into a trap and gets impaled by wooden stakes jutting out of the ground.
2. Soon after a party where Jackie and Shauna affirmed their love and loyalty for each other, we see Shauna having sex with Jackie's boyfriend, Jeff, right after they dropped Jackie to her home. Et tu, Shauna?
3. We finally get to see the savage and feral pack that the former soccer team has devolved into. They sit according to hierarchy as they are about to feast on the flesh of their latest kill (or so it seems).
4. When not sabotaging her friend's car or snooping on them, Misty can be very useful. One of her boldest moves was to amputate the coach's mangled leg with an axe.
5. But then few minutes later, we see what a dangerous, irresponsible, and selfish person she is when she destroys the black box of the flight, thus starting the chain of events that would haunt the survivors for the rest of their lives.
6. In a show of her helpfulness and creepiness, Misty barges into Natalie's apartment, pushes her aside and snorts all the coke that Natalie had lined up for herself, in order to prevent Natalie from relapsing. For Natalie's "benefit", Misty was spying on her by a spy cam.
7. Is it good or bad — auspicious or ominous — to come across a cabin in the woods with a dead man, almost withered to a skeleton, sitting in the attic?
8. One of the shocking reveals that gives Natalie some purpose and adds to the show's mystery. Who killed Travis?
9. While doing her first hunt in the forest, we learn that Natalie has a very traumatic relationship with guns. Her abusive father had accidently shot himself and died in front of her.
10. A distraught Shauna tried to use the underwire of her bra to perform abortion on herself but is caught by an alert Taissa. Then Taissa attempts to do the abortion but they both get scared and don't go through.
11. What started as a jocular tomfoolery soon transmogrifies into a scary got-more-than-we-bargained-for exercise. Lottie becomes ostensibly possessed, mumbles something in French, and then bangs her head on the window.
12. The big reveal that Taissa sleepwalks and eats dirt explained who the scary lady in the tree was that was driving Sammy crazy. Also there's a big bite wound on her right hand which is not self-inflicted.
13. The women channel their former soccer champions and try to catch the blackmailer, though he escapes — but not before he gets doused with glitter.
14. Adam's secret mystery lover act comes to bite him as Shauna discovers that he isn't who he claims to be and stabs him to death.
15. Van gets mauled by wolves and her friends light her pyre without making sure she's actually dead. Getting burned alive is becoming a constant danger for Van.
16. One of the most unexpected moments was Laura Lee's explosive death. Although we knew that her air expedition was bound to fail, no one had expected that one of the most likeable and level headed characters of the show would go down in flames.
17. Around mid-season, the show had started foreshadowing Lottie's crowning as the Antler Queen. When the girls were hunting Travis under the effect of shrooms, this was the first explicit instance of Lottie donning the antler crown.
18. Misty shows that she's as daring and reckless as her teenage self when she calls the fake journalist, Jessica, who was sniffing around the adult Yellowjackets, and injects her with fentanyl and kidnaps her.
19. A big bear comes from nowhere and strangely capitulates to Lottie who fearlessly goes and stabs him to death.
20. In the finale, Natalie gets kidnapped by folks who seem to be the members of a secret and violent cult linked to one of the Yellowjackets (probably Lottie). One of them wears a locket bearing the same symbol that was etched on trees of the forest and the floor of the cabin where the team later shifted.
21. One of the most unsettling reveals of the series comes when Taissa's wife discovers a secret lair in their house that has their dog's head and heart placed on what looks like a sacrificial altar. Now we know what caused Taissa's hand wound.
22. In what looks like an occult ritual, Lottie places the bear's heart as an offering and behind her are her first two followers, Van and Misty. Seems the cult formation has started.
