Sophie Nélisse, Jasmine Savoy Brown and Samantha Hanratty were among the young stars of Yellowjackets who stepped out for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday (January 15) at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
The ladies, who play younger versions of Shauna, Taissa and Misty, respectively, on the fan-favorite show joined several more of their younger castmates at the awards ceremony, where the series is nominated for Outstanding Drama Series!
Also in attendance were Steven Krueger, Sophie Thatcher, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson and Kevin Alves.
Other Yellowjackets Emmy nominations include Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Melanie Lynskey and Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series.
Fyi: Sophie Nélisse is wearing Givenchy. Jasmine is wearing Givenchy. Samantha is wearing a Dolce&Gabbana dress, Versace shoes, Vrai jewelry and a Tyler Ellis bag. Sophie Thatcher is wearing Saint Laurent. Liv is wearing Moschino. Courtney is wearing a Jason Wu gown, Larroude shoes,...
The ladies, who play younger versions of Shauna, Taissa and Misty, respectively, on the fan-favorite show joined several more of their younger castmates at the awards ceremony, where the series is nominated for Outstanding Drama Series!
Also in attendance were Steven Krueger, Sophie Thatcher, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson and Kevin Alves.
Other Yellowjackets Emmy nominations include Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Melanie Lynskey and Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series.
Fyi: Sophie Nélisse is wearing Givenchy. Jasmine is wearing Givenchy. Samantha is wearing a Dolce&Gabbana dress, Versace shoes, Vrai jewelry and a Tyler Ellis bag. Sophie Thatcher is wearing Saint Laurent. Liv is wearing Moschino. Courtney is wearing a Jason Wu gown, Larroude shoes,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
As Yellowjackets season two viewers now know, Juliette Lewis’ character met a tragic ending.
In the shocking May 2023 finale of the hit Showtime series, adult Natalie (Lewis) was — spoiler alert! — accidentally killed by Misty (Christina Ricci) during a wilderness reunion gone wrong between the adult survivors of the soccer team’s 1996 plane crash.
Lewis, who has remained relatively quiet about her arc since the finale released, reflected on exiting the series at the 2023 Emmys — though she left the door slightly ajar to return for season three.
“I thought they wrapped up the characters really beautifully, and I just love good writing, so I was happy to be a part of it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet. “And I’ll miss my cast. Such a good group of girls, I love them so much. They’re going to do amazing.”
In the 1996 timeline, the Yellowjackets soccer team...
In the shocking May 2023 finale of the hit Showtime series, adult Natalie (Lewis) was — spoiler alert! — accidentally killed by Misty (Christina Ricci) during a wilderness reunion gone wrong between the adult survivors of the soccer team’s 1996 plane crash.
Lewis, who has remained relatively quiet about her arc since the finale released, reflected on exiting the series at the 2023 Emmys — though she left the door slightly ajar to return for season three.
“I thought they wrapped up the characters really beautifully, and I just love good writing, so I was happy to be a part of it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet. “And I’ll miss my cast. Such a good group of girls, I love them so much. They’re going to do amazing.”
In the 1996 timeline, the Yellowjackets soccer team...
- 1/16/2024
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A puzzle win was in one player’s grasp in Wheel of Fortune on Wednesday, January 3, but she lost the round due to a mispronounced word. It was a shame, given that every letter in the puzzle had been revealed and she need only read the board correctly. Fans on social media couldn’t believe that she answered incorrectly when the solved puzzle was at her disposal. Melissa Lefan, Shauna Williams, and Steve Sporre were competing in the game show on Wednesday night. When the “Same Letter” category came up early on, Steve racked up nearly $10,000 and a vacation in winnings as he accurately guessed most of the letters on the board. He unfortunately lost all of his prizes when landing on a bankrupt card, and then Melissa scooped up some winnings when guessing accurate letters with ease. But she, too, landed on a bankrupt right when she was on a roll.
- 1/4/2024
- TV Insider
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This year’s Emmy race for Lead Actress in a Drama Series has everything: first-time nominees, long-overlooked favorites… and a former winner to boot.
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Among the six nominees, only one has won before: Elisabeth Moss, who’s back for the fourth time for her harrowing work as June on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale...
This year’s Emmy race for Lead Actress in a Drama Series has everything: first-time nominees, long-overlooked favorites… and a former winner to boot.
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Among the six nominees, only one has won before: Elisabeth Moss, who’s back for the fourth time for her harrowing work as June on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale...
- 12/19/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
“Yellowjackets” showrunners Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson and Jonathan Lisco gave an update on the status of Season 3 during a Q&a for SAG-AFTRA nomination committee members on Wednesday night.
“We’re deep in the writing,” Lyle said, noting that the show’s writers had already assembled to work on the third season before the WGA strike resulted in a pause in production in May. But, once the strike ended in September, Lyle said “everybody came back so incredibly enthusiastic, raring to go and creatively invigorated.” Without divulging any plot details, she said, “We’re having so much fun and are very excited about it.”
The series offers a dual timeline narrative: one follows a high school girls’ soccer team who survive a plane crash in the wilderness, and the other catches up with them as adults 25 years later.
The showrunners were joined by the younger “Yellowjackets” cast: Sophie Nélisse (Shauna...
“We’re deep in the writing,” Lyle said, noting that the show’s writers had already assembled to work on the third season before the WGA strike resulted in a pause in production in May. But, once the strike ended in September, Lyle said “everybody came back so incredibly enthusiastic, raring to go and creatively invigorated.” Without divulging any plot details, she said, “We’re having so much fun and are very excited about it.”
The series offers a dual timeline narrative: one follows a high school girls’ soccer team who survive a plane crash in the wilderness, and the other catches up with them as adults 25 years later.
The showrunners were joined by the younger “Yellowjackets” cast: Sophie Nélisse (Shauna...
- 12/14/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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Just when I thought I'd never buy another Funko Pop, those maestros of vinyl collectibles went ahead and designed a series that just shot to the top of my asking list for Santa Claus.
It was only a matter of time before the characters of "Yellowjackets" were given the Pop treatment, but Funko didn't just put them all in their soccer uniforms and switch their heads, they delivered unique designs that highlight the creativity, resourcefulness, and '90s fashion goodness of our fave soccer players (and Coach Ben) from the "Doomcoming" episode. Based on some of the items the characters are holding, it also appears that these designs are from after they all started tripping balls on Misty's magic mushroom stew. They were even kind enough to include Jackie in what will potentially be her only Funko form -- unless...
Just when I thought I'd never buy another Funko Pop, those maestros of vinyl collectibles went ahead and designed a series that just shot to the top of my asking list for Santa Claus.
It was only a matter of time before the characters of "Yellowjackets" were given the Pop treatment, but Funko didn't just put them all in their soccer uniforms and switch their heads, they delivered unique designs that highlight the creativity, resourcefulness, and '90s fashion goodness of our fave soccer players (and Coach Ben) from the "Doomcoming" episode. Based on some of the items the characters are holding, it also appears that these designs are from after they all started tripping balls on Misty's magic mushroom stew. They were even kind enough to include Jackie in what will potentially be her only Funko form -- unless...
- 11/10/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
This story about Melanie Lynskey first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Drama and Limited Series issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Everybody loves Melanie Lynskey, and Melanie Lynskey loves everybody. Well, almost everybody. (We’ll get to the exceptions in a minute.) When the dust settled on the morning of July 12, the New Zealand actress and pop culture fan favorite had nabbed two Emmy nominations, her second consecutive nod in Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” as well as a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s post-apocalyptic video game adaptation “The Last of Us” for HBO.
There are commonalities that exist in both characters. On “Yellowjackets,” Shauna is deeply traumatized by the plane crash and subsequent quest for survival she experienced when she was a teenager. She struggles without the tools to move...
Everybody loves Melanie Lynskey, and Melanie Lynskey loves everybody. Well, almost everybody. (We’ll get to the exceptions in a minute.) When the dust settled on the morning of July 12, the New Zealand actress and pop culture fan favorite had nabbed two Emmy nominations, her second consecutive nod in Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” as well as a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s post-apocalyptic video game adaptation “The Last of Us” for HBO.
There are commonalities that exist in both characters. On “Yellowjackets,” Shauna is deeply traumatized by the plane crash and subsequent quest for survival she experienced when she was a teenager. She struggles without the tools to move...
- 8/21/2023
- by Libby Hill
- The Wrap
Karyn Kusama is one of many executive producers on Showtime’s blockbuster dual-timeline drama about the survivors of a plane crash, but she also has a very singular connection to the series: She directed both the pilot and the most recent season finale. Two years ago, she was tasked with introducing the world to the group of teenagers and their present-day adult counterparts, laying the groundwork for a show full of pathos, mystery and needle drops; this year, she shepherded the death of a beloved character (played by Juliette Lewis). She called THR fresh from a much-needed summer vacation to discuss some select season two moments and what she’d like to see for the future of Yellowjackets.
Director and executive producer Karyn Kusama.
Today you’re representing the show, and its creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson are striking along with their fellow WGA members. I’m curious what...
Director and executive producer Karyn Kusama.
Today you’re representing the show, and its creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson are striking along with their fellow WGA members. I’m curious what...
- 8/15/2023
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sarah Desjardins is uploading to the grid. The Yellowjackets actor is the latest addition to Tron: Ares, the upcoming third installment of the classic Disney film series.
Desjardins joins a cast that includes Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters and Jodie Turner-Smith. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil filmmaker Joachim Ronning is directing Ares, which follows 1982’s Tron and 2010’s Tron: Legacy.
While the first Tron film centered on a video game designer (Jeff Bridges) entering his own creation, and the follow-up focused on his son (Garrett Hedlund) following in his footsteps, sources previously told The Hollywood Reporter that the new film will spend more time in the real world. The script from Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne is said to center on a sentient program that crosses over into the human world that is not ready for contact.
Ares marks the latest high profile project for Desjardins, who on Showtime’s Yellowjackets plays Callie Sadecki,...
Desjardins joins a cast that includes Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters and Jodie Turner-Smith. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil filmmaker Joachim Ronning is directing Ares, which follows 1982’s Tron and 2010’s Tron: Legacy.
While the first Tron film centered on a video game designer (Jeff Bridges) entering his own creation, and the follow-up focused on his son (Garrett Hedlund) following in his footsteps, sources previously told The Hollywood Reporter that the new film will spend more time in the real world. The script from Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne is said to center on a sentient program that crosses over into the human world that is not ready for contact.
Ares marks the latest high profile project for Desjardins, who on Showtime’s Yellowjackets plays Callie Sadecki,...
- 7/13/2023
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2023 Emmy nominations are here. The slate of nominees include "Succession" (which aired its final season this spring), "Ted Lasso" (which also just wrapped up its last season), "Yellowjackets," and many more. And while there are some long-deserved Emmy nominations we're very excited about, there are also a lot of nominations that didn't happen, leaving viewers and fans surprised at these major misses. Ahead, these are the biggest snubs of the 2023 Emmy nominations.
Emmys Snub: The Cast of "House of the Dragon"
"House of the Dragon," the "Game of Thrones" prequel series that won fans' hearts last fall, was nominated for nine awards. None of them were for acting, despite a very strong ensemble. Most egregious in our eyes is the exclusion of Emma D'Arcy's leading performance as Rhaenyra Targaryen. D'Arcy's portrayal of the heir in an impossible position is full of nuance, pain, and tenderness. And if...
Emmys Snub: The Cast of "House of the Dragon"
"House of the Dragon," the "Game of Thrones" prequel series that won fans' hearts last fall, was nominated for nine awards. None of them were for acting, despite a very strong ensemble. Most egregious in our eyes is the exclusion of Emma D'Arcy's leading performance as Rhaenyra Targaryen. D'Arcy's portrayal of the heir in an impossible position is full of nuance, pain, and tenderness. And if...
- 7/12/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
"Yellowjackets" was renewed for season three before the second season even premiered this spring, promising fans more chaos, cults, and cannibalism. Showtime confirmed season three in December 2022. The show's creators, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, have planned for the story of the ill-fated New Jersey soccer champs to be told over the course of five seasons, so the next season will put the story over the halfway mark.
But when the third season will finally air is, unfortunately, a huge unknown thanks to the ongoing writers' strike. Back in March, Lyle and Nickerson told The Hollywood Reporter that they were trying to start writing the new season before the strike began. "The possibility of the strike is very real. All we can do is keep moving forward until we have to put our pencils down," Lyle said. She added that the writers' room would begin officially meeting in April.
On May 2, Lyle tweeted an update,...
But when the third season will finally air is, unfortunately, a huge unknown thanks to the ongoing writers' strike. Back in March, Lyle and Nickerson told The Hollywood Reporter that they were trying to start writing the new season before the strike began. "The possibility of the strike is very real. All we can do is keep moving forward until we have to put our pencils down," Lyle said. She added that the writers' room would begin officially meeting in April.
On May 2, Lyle tweeted an update,...
- 6/7/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
Showrunners and filmmakers began bringing intimacy coordinators onto TV and film sets to ensure that performers felt safe and their boundaries respected while filming sex scenes. But as two top practitioners told TheWrap, the role has expanded to include any depiction of “heightened emotion,” including assaults, deaths and childbirth.
Kathy Kadler, who comes from a nursing background and has been an intimacy coordinator for three years, worked on both seasons of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.” She found the cast relying on her more often in filming Season 2, in which characters dealt with a stillbirth, cannibalism, murder and dissociative breaks from reality.
Jasmin Savoy Brown, who plays Teen Taissa on the drama series, expressed how thankful she was to have an intimacy coordinator on set as an overall mental health resource.
“It’s a really grueling, exhausting show,” Brown told TheWrap shortly after filming wrapped on Season 2. “I think people forget that the ’96 timeline,...
Kathy Kadler, who comes from a nursing background and has been an intimacy coordinator for three years, worked on both seasons of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.” She found the cast relying on her more often in filming Season 2, in which characters dealt with a stillbirth, cannibalism, murder and dissociative breaks from reality.
Jasmin Savoy Brown, who plays Teen Taissa on the drama series, expressed how thankful she was to have an intimacy coordinator on set as an overall mental health resource.
“It’s a really grueling, exhausting show,” Brown told TheWrap shortly after filming wrapped on Season 2. “I think people forget that the ’96 timeline,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
The newly crowned Antler Queen’s reign may start sooner than we thought.
Showtime’s Yellowjackets will air a bonus episode between the just-wrapped Season 2 and the forthcoming Season 3, co-creator and executive producer Ashley Lyle tweeted Thursday.
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Lyle’s confirmation of the extra hour came in a response to a fan who tweeted...
Showtime’s Yellowjackets will air a bonus episode between the just-wrapped Season 2 and the forthcoming Season 3, co-creator and executive producer Ashley Lyle tweeted Thursday.
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Lyle’s confirmation of the extra hour came in a response to a fan who tweeted...
- 6/2/2023
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
"Yellowjackets" hive, don't go into hibernation just yet: series co-creator Ashley Lyle has officially confirmed via Twitter (per Entertainment Weekly) that fans can expect a bonus episode to drop sometime between the show's just-ended second season and its third, which doesn't currently have a release date. Lyle has officially confirmed that the mythical tenth episode, which viewers started to speculate about after finding out season 2 was one episode shorter than its predecessor, does exist and will see the light of day -- eventually.
While Lyle didn't drop any hints about when viewers should expect more "Yellowjackets," she confirmed the bonus episode's existence in response to a Twitter user who planned to stay up late in case it dropped on June 2, 2023, a week after the finale premiered. After telling the user to get some rest, Lyle said, "There will be a bonus episode between seasons, but I love you guys and...
While Lyle didn't drop any hints about when viewers should expect more "Yellowjackets," she confirmed the bonus episode's existence in response to a Twitter user who planned to stay up late in case it dropped on June 2, 2023, a week after the finale premiered. After telling the user to get some rest, Lyle said, "There will be a bonus episode between seasons, but I love you guys and...
- 6/2/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
The Yellowjackets are currently on strike, but they’re going to return with something for fans to buzz about. A bonus episode of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” is expected to premiere before Season 3 officially premieres, showrunner Ashley Lyle has said on Twitter.
Lyle, who created the series with her husband Bart Nickerson and co-showruns with him and Jonathan Lisco, revealed the news when responding to a fan’s tweet claiming they stayed up late in the hope that a surprise bonus episode would premiere on the Showtime app.
“Noooo. Go to bed! Get some rest!” Lyle tweeted in response to the fan account. “There will be a bonus episode between seasons, but I love you guys and I don’t want y’all to lose sleep thinking it’s tonight.”
When contacted by IndieWire, Showtime declined to comment on Lyle’s announcement.
Season 2 of “Yellowjackets” premiered this March, and aired its...
Lyle, who created the series with her husband Bart Nickerson and co-showruns with him and Jonathan Lisco, revealed the news when responding to a fan’s tweet claiming they stayed up late in the hope that a surprise bonus episode would premiere on the Showtime app.
“Noooo. Go to bed! Get some rest!” Lyle tweeted in response to the fan account. “There will be a bonus episode between seasons, but I love you guys and I don’t want y’all to lose sleep thinking it’s tonight.”
When contacted by IndieWire, Showtime declined to comment on Lyle’s announcement.
Season 2 of “Yellowjackets” premiered this March, and aired its...
- 6/2/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
The show’s sophomore season may have been a snowcapped misery tour for its characters, but Showtime’s pitch-black drama about cannibalistic teen survivors — and their adult trauma — did not cease to shock and entertain over the course of its nine-episode run this spring.
“Yellowjackets” executive producer and director Karyn Kusama will join actress Christina Ricci and music supervisor Nora Felder at IndieWire’s annual Consider This event for a panel, this Saturday, June 3 in Los Angeles. The series clinched seven Emmy nominations in 2022, and some of the show’s biggest champions made an appearance at IndieWire’s 2022 Consider This brunch.
Set in the winter of 1996/1997, this season finds the stranded teens battling debilitating temperatures and food shortages — the latter of which drives them to eat their own, first by accident and later by conscious, collective, catastrophic choice. Starvation is a ticking time bomb (and “wreaks havoc” on the mind...
“Yellowjackets” executive producer and director Karyn Kusama will join actress Christina Ricci and music supervisor Nora Felder at IndieWire’s annual Consider This event for a panel, this Saturday, June 3 in Los Angeles. The series clinched seven Emmy nominations in 2022, and some of the show’s biggest champions made an appearance at IndieWire’s 2022 Consider This brunch.
Set in the winter of 1996/1997, this season finds the stranded teens battling debilitating temperatures and food shortages — the latter of which drives them to eat their own, first by accident and later by conscious, collective, catastrophic choice. Starvation is a ticking time bomb (and “wreaks havoc” on the mind...
- 6/2/2023
- by Alison Foreman and Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
This article contains spoilers for season 2 of Yellowjackets.
There are silly, insignificant "what if" games that one plays as a kid or even as an adult. I was not once asked what I would do if I were stranded in the wilderness or on an island. These "what if" questions become a harsh reality for the protagonists in Yellowjackets by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. As Yellowjackets returns for a second season, the fan-favorite group of survivors wraps themselves in an even larger cocoon of lies and risky scenarios before reuniting at Lottie's cult for the vicious and trailblazing doozy of a finale. At the same time, things get dire for the soccer team in the wild as the winter comes and there is no food. Season 2 has a lot in store for us, such as answers about Lottie's mental state and Shauna's pregnancy. At the same time,...
There are silly, insignificant "what if" games that one plays as a kid or even as an adult. I was not once asked what I would do if I were stranded in the wilderness or on an island. These "what if" questions become a harsh reality for the protagonists in Yellowjackets by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. As Yellowjackets returns for a second season, the fan-favorite group of survivors wraps themselves in an even larger cocoon of lies and risky scenarios before reuniting at Lottie's cult for the vicious and trailblazing doozy of a finale. At the same time, things get dire for the soccer team in the wild as the winter comes and there is no food. Season 2 has a lot in store for us, such as answers about Lottie's mental state and Shauna's pregnancy. At the same time,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Zofia Wijaszka
- DailyDead
This article contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of Yellowjackets
The identity of the Antler Queen first seen in the Yellowjackets pilot has been one of the most intriguing mysteries of the series so far. We first see her during what has become known as the “pit girl” scene that shows an unknown survivor being hunted through the wilderness until she falls into a pit and dies. She is then butchered and offered to another unknown survivor wearing a crown of antlers for approval before the others are allowed to partake. This Antler Queen has long been thought to be Lottie Matthews (Courtney Eaton), but the season 2 finale shows that might not be the case going into Yellowjackets season 3.
After learning of the hunt that took place while she was recovering from being nearly beaten to death by Shauna (Sophie Nélisse), Lottie decides to relinquish her role as leader. She...
The identity of the Antler Queen first seen in the Yellowjackets pilot has been one of the most intriguing mysteries of the series so far. We first see her during what has become known as the “pit girl” scene that shows an unknown survivor being hunted through the wilderness until she falls into a pit and dies. She is then butchered and offered to another unknown survivor wearing a crown of antlers for approval before the others are allowed to partake. This Antler Queen has long been thought to be Lottie Matthews (Courtney Eaton), but the season 2 finale shows that might not be the case going into Yellowjackets season 3.
After learning of the hunt that took place while she was recovering from being nearly beaten to death by Shauna (Sophie Nélisse), Lottie decides to relinquish her role as leader. She...
- 5/31/2023
- by Brynnaarens
- Den of Geek
The one thing that really works for Dark Nature is its title, but outside of the humor in that, there’s not much substance in this centuries-old story of toxic relationships and the importance of dealing with trauma. If 2005’s The Descent was the epitome of building terror step by step as we go further into the abyss while overcoming our trauma in the good old, adventurous ways, Dark Nature made no notes. Dark Nature has ideas but no execution; it only scrapes the surface of what it’s trying to do in a pretty bland manner. Dark Nature follows a young woman named Joy who has been in a traumatic relationship. To help Joy get over her ex, her friend Carmen comes up with the idea of a fun expedition in the woods with a group. Said group is led by a psychiatrist who will help them each get over their traumas,...
- 5/30/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
Taissa Turner, one of the most talented players on the school football team, along with many others, survived the plane crash in Yellowjackets. As their stay in the cabin began in season one, it was easy to assume that Taissa’s mind was reacting to the trauma she had faced since the crash. She is one of the girls who is intrigued by the mysterious signs that keep appearing everywhere.
The first season ended with Vanessa and Taissa falling in love and Vanessa helping her with her sleepwalking. 25 years later, the adult Taissa becomes a state senator. To Taissa’s horror, she has been sleepwalking all over again, which her son probably witnessed. Their dog died due to it, and her wife, Simone, left her after giving her an ultimatum. Season two also has Taissa not paying any heed to her estranged wife’s concerns. Simone has made her stance clear multiple times,...
The first season ended with Vanessa and Taissa falling in love and Vanessa helping her with her sleepwalking. 25 years later, the adult Taissa becomes a state senator. To Taissa’s horror, she has been sleepwalking all over again, which her son probably witnessed. Their dog died due to it, and her wife, Simone, left her after giving her an ultimatum. Season two also has Taissa not paying any heed to her estranged wife’s concerns. Simone has made her stance clear multiple times,...
- 5/30/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Jackie Taylor may have died at the end of “Yellowjackets'” first season, but Ella Purnell‘s Emmy hopes for the second season are still very much alive.
While there’s not yet official confirmation that Purnell has been submitted for the Showtime hit this year — we’ll know for sure when Emmy ballots are released for the start of voting on June 15 — she is eligible in Best Drama Guest Actress, having appeared in new footage in less than 50 percent of the show’s nine episodes this season.
See ‘Yellowjackets’: Sophie Nélisse deserves a taste of Emmy love for her heartrending work in ‘Qui’
Purnell’s key appearance is in the season premiere, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” in which she returns as a ghost version of Jackie who plays Mash with and taunts her best friend Shauna (Sophie Nélisse). Though ghost Jackie is more of a figment of Shauna’s imagination...
While there’s not yet official confirmation that Purnell has been submitted for the Showtime hit this year — we’ll know for sure when Emmy ballots are released for the start of voting on June 15 — she is eligible in Best Drama Guest Actress, having appeared in new footage in less than 50 percent of the show’s nine episodes this season.
See ‘Yellowjackets’: Sophie Nélisse deserves a taste of Emmy love for her heartrending work in ‘Qui’
Purnell’s key appearance is in the season premiere, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” in which she returns as a ghost version of Jackie who plays Mash with and taunts her best friend Shauna (Sophie Nélisse). Though ghost Jackie is more of a figment of Shauna’s imagination...
- 5/30/2023
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
The season may have ended, but “Yellowjackets” isn’t done with winter. After devising their own methods for ritual sacrifice and eating their own to survive, the stranded teens just lost their home and are in for many more grueling months in the wilderness — to say nothing of the inner turmoil they’ll carry as adults. The adult Yellowjackets may have just escaped criminal charges, but they’re not out of the woods either, and down a Natalie (Juliette Lewis) moving forward.
Buckle in, “Yellowjackets” fans, because it’s going to be a while before these characters return. Until then, here are 10 burning questions after the “Yellowjackets” Season 2 finale that we hope to see answered in Season 3.
1. Who and what is the Antler Queen?
Looking back, the main reason anyone believed that Lottie (Courtney Eaton) was the Antler Queen was because the “Yellowjackets” audience expected Season 1 to answer that question.
Buckle in, “Yellowjackets” fans, because it’s going to be a while before these characters return. Until then, here are 10 burning questions after the “Yellowjackets” Season 2 finale that we hope to see answered in Season 3.
1. Who and what is the Antler Queen?
Looking back, the main reason anyone believed that Lottie (Courtney Eaton) was the Antler Queen was because the “Yellowjackets” audience expected Season 1 to answer that question.
- 5/30/2023
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
The season 2 finale of "Yellowjackets" made a stunning turn when Lottie passed the baton to Nat as the new queen of their tribe (whether or not this is the ubiquitous Antler Queen is still up for discussion). She considered it an honor for Nat's contributions as a hunter, and for the wilderness "sparing her" and taking Javi instead. Afterward, we see Shauna writing in her journal: "How could it not have been me? After everything? When I was the only one willing to do what it took to keep us all fed. I used to think it was Jackie who made me feel invisible but —."
Like most teenagers, Shauna craves attention. She's tired of being sidelined for pretty and popular girls. Sophie Nélisse's perceptive performance captures Shauna's meekness.Shauna holds herself like a wilting flower — keeping quiet and observing others from an emotional distance. Her wounded expressions mask the...
Like most teenagers, Shauna craves attention. She's tired of being sidelined for pretty and popular girls. Sophie Nélisse's perceptive performance captures Shauna's meekness.Shauna holds herself like a wilting flower — keeping quiet and observing others from an emotional distance. Her wounded expressions mask the...
- 5/30/2023
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
Spoiler alert: The following article contains “Succession” series finale spoilers.
After four celebrated seasons of in-fighting, scheming and brilliantly scripted family drama, HBO’s “Succession” came to an end on Sunday with the Roy family battling for control of their the media conglomerate empire, Waystar Royco.
The series finale saw the Roy siblings share a few rare moments of unity and collaboration, but built to some surprising backstabs and unexpected breakdowns that left fans reeling.
The centerpiece of the standout moments revolved around some unexpected twists. After Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv (Sarah Snook) came together to put their support behind Kendall (Jeremy Strong) in their last-ditch effort to stop GoJo from buying out Waystar Royco, Shiv pulled off one of the show’s most ultimate switch-up betrayals.
When it came down the final vote, Shiv turned on Kendall and accused him of killing someone — referring to the events that...
After four celebrated seasons of in-fighting, scheming and brilliantly scripted family drama, HBO’s “Succession” came to an end on Sunday with the Roy family battling for control of their the media conglomerate empire, Waystar Royco.
The series finale saw the Roy siblings share a few rare moments of unity and collaboration, but built to some surprising backstabs and unexpected breakdowns that left fans reeling.
The centerpiece of the standout moments revolved around some unexpected twists. After Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv (Sarah Snook) came together to put their support behind Kendall (Jeremy Strong) in their last-ditch effort to stop GoJo from buying out Waystar Royco, Shiv pulled off one of the show’s most ultimate switch-up betrayals.
When it came down the final vote, Shiv turned on Kendall and accused him of killing someone — referring to the events that...
- 5/29/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
This post contains spoilers for the "Yellowjackets" season 2 finale.
The season 2 finale of "Yellowjackets" is out, and fans aren't 100% thrilled. A lot of the backlash so far has centered around the death of adult Natalie (Juliette Lewis), a plot point that was arguably a little rushed and unsatisfying. The other major point of contention is with the resolution of the long-running Adam subplot. Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) killed a guy she was having an affair with in season 1, and after a full season of the police closing in on her, the situation's been resolved not through the actions of Shauna herself, but with the help of Walter (Elijah Wood), a man Shauna's never even met.
For a lot of fans, this conclusion is a little too convenient. It's made worse because Walter's whole plan doesn't hold up to scrutiny in the slightest. There's no way an experienced detective would casually accept...
The season 2 finale of "Yellowjackets" is out, and fans aren't 100% thrilled. A lot of the backlash so far has centered around the death of adult Natalie (Juliette Lewis), a plot point that was arguably a little rushed and unsatisfying. The other major point of contention is with the resolution of the long-running Adam subplot. Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) killed a guy she was having an affair with in season 1, and after a full season of the police closing in on her, the situation's been resolved not through the actions of Shauna herself, but with the help of Walter (Elijah Wood), a man Shauna's never even met.
For a lot of fans, this conclusion is a little too convenient. It's made worse because Walter's whole plan doesn't hold up to scrutiny in the slightest. There's no way an experienced detective would casually accept...
- 5/29/2023
- by Michael Boyle
- Slash Film
Season 2 of Showtime's buzzy horror series "Yellowjackets" has delivered its share of surprises. We've witnessed heartbreaking deaths, teenage blackmail, musical dream sequences, and a devastating delivery. However, the most stunning development of all this season marks the survivors' long-awaited entry into the taboo world of cannibalism. The season begins with a starving Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) popping a severed ear into her mouth, followed by a moonlit feast of human flesh. Another gruesome act of cannibalism bookends the season in a thrilling finale featuring blood, fire, and a newly anointed Antler Queen.
After watching Javi (Luciano Leroux) die in the frozen lake, the girls bring his body back to camp and prepare for their next meal. Lottie (Courtney Eaton) descends from her sick bed and gives up control of the group, pointing to Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) as the next leader. The team signals their allegiance one by one, but her coronation joy is short-lived.
After watching Javi (Luciano Leroux) die in the frozen lake, the girls bring his body back to camp and prepare for their next meal. Lottie (Courtney Eaton) descends from her sick bed and gives up control of the group, pointing to Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) as the next leader. The team signals their allegiance one by one, but her coronation joy is short-lived.
- 5/28/2023
- by Jenn Adams
- Slash Film
Season one of Yellowjackets ended with Jackie’s death and Shauna’s being filled with the pain and guilt of losing her best friend. In season two, we get to watch Shauna deal with the trauma of Jackie’s death in her own way. The girls did not bury Jackie for a while, which explains Shauna’s hallucinations. She imagines Jackie and herself conversing about their uncomfortable truths. This was Shauna’s way to deal with the tragedy and get rid of the guilt. The entire group grappled with the onset of winter, and things would only get worse for them. With Javi nowhere to be found, Travis is worried about his missing brother. He can only hope Javi will come back and is not engulfed by the wilderness. Nat and Travis were assigned to hunt and bring back as much meat as possible. And the duo was doing their best in that winter,...
- 5/28/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
This article contains major spoilers for "Yellowjackets" season 2 finale.
Throughout the entire second season of "Yellowjackets," tension has been building between the stranded soccer team and their coach. Fans have been speculating about whether or not Coach Ben is next on the menu, and Steven Krueger teased a dark turn for his character -- but what unfolded in the finale was entirely unexpected.
Ben has been keeping to himself and retreating into a dream world where he is back home with his boyfriend Paul after accepting his proposal to move to the city with him — avoiding his terrible fate in the wilderness. These moving flashbacks of what could have been cause Ben to mentally spiral and contemplate ending his life.
As the only adult in the group, Ben has always been somewhat ostracized by the girls. Between the loss of his leg and his mental instability, they hardly view him as a leader.
Throughout the entire second season of "Yellowjackets," tension has been building between the stranded soccer team and their coach. Fans have been speculating about whether or not Coach Ben is next on the menu, and Steven Krueger teased a dark turn for his character -- but what unfolded in the finale was entirely unexpected.
Ben has been keeping to himself and retreating into a dream world where he is back home with his boyfriend Paul after accepting his proposal to move to the city with him — avoiding his terrible fate in the wilderness. These moving flashbacks of what could have been cause Ben to mentally spiral and contemplate ending his life.
As the only adult in the group, Ben has always been somewhat ostracized by the girls. Between the loss of his leg and his mental instability, they hardly view him as a leader.
- 5/28/2023
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
Episode eight of season two of Yellowjackets ended with Natalie being chased out of the hut, for she was the one chosen by the wilderness to be sacrificed for their food. Natalie was ready to be killed when Travis forced her to leave the cabin. Javi helps Nat get to the large tree where he was resting during the winter. In that pursuit, Javi falls into the icy cold water, and Nat is stopped by the rest of the girls from saving him. The boy dies, and they have the kill they were looking for. The adults, too, gather around at Lottie’s commune when Shauna finally reveals that it was her husband who was blackmailing them, and she had to involve her daughter as well. Lottie starts spiraling and talking about how an unknown power brought them together at that spot. Will any of the women fall for Lottie’s words,...
- 5/27/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Spoilers for "Yellowjackets" follow.
My favorite "Yellowjackets" character is Natalie Scatorccio (Sophie Thatcher/Juliette Lewis), the most grounded, no-bs of the 1996 plane crash survivors and seemingly the group's conscience. I've written before that she is the series' heart and soul, but after the season 2 finale — "Storytelling" — I realized that I hadn't considered if Natalie herself would agree with that description.
In "Storytelling," Natalie says in both past and present that she doesn't see herself as a good person. We already knew that she accidentally caused her abusive father to shoot himself when she was younger. Season 2, episode 8 —"It Chooses" — reveals that she let Javi (Luciano Leroux) drown to save herself from ritual sacrifice, exacerbating her survivor's guilt.
Most "Yellowjackets" fans, myself included, thought this would be the last straw for Nat. Some theorized that the survivors were ultimately rescued because she left them in disgust, made it back to civilization,...
My favorite "Yellowjackets" character is Natalie Scatorccio (Sophie Thatcher/Juliette Lewis), the most grounded, no-bs of the 1996 plane crash survivors and seemingly the group's conscience. I've written before that she is the series' heart and soul, but after the season 2 finale — "Storytelling" — I realized that I hadn't considered if Natalie herself would agree with that description.
In "Storytelling," Natalie says in both past and present that she doesn't see herself as a good person. We already knew that she accidentally caused her abusive father to shoot himself when she was younger. Season 2, episode 8 —"It Chooses" — reveals that she let Javi (Luciano Leroux) drown to save herself from ritual sacrifice, exacerbating her survivor's guilt.
Most "Yellowjackets" fans, myself included, thought this would be the last straw for Nat. Some theorized that the survivors were ultimately rescued because she left them in disgust, made it back to civilization,...
- 5/27/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the "Yellowjackets" season 2 finale.
"The wilderness chose." For the characters of "Yellowjackets," this simple phrase is a means of equivocating, the way a person might gloss over something bad by saying, "It is what it is." In the show's flashback scenes, that means girls' soccer players hunting and cannibalizing their teammates in the wilderness where their plane has crashed. Some of them, like the adult Lottie (Simone Kessell), believe the wilderness is a dark force that follows them back to civilization and demands appeasement even in a place where cannibalism is no longer necessary for survival. Others, like Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), believe Lottie is crazy, and they have only themselves to blame for the continuing murder and mayhem in their lives.
Christina Ricci, for one, sees the wilderness as a convenient out for her character, Misty, as she deals with the guilt of having killed her best friend,...
"The wilderness chose." For the characters of "Yellowjackets," this simple phrase is a means of equivocating, the way a person might gloss over something bad by saying, "It is what it is." In the show's flashback scenes, that means girls' soccer players hunting and cannibalizing their teammates in the wilderness where their plane has crashed. Some of them, like the adult Lottie (Simone Kessell), believe the wilderness is a dark force that follows them back to civilization and demands appeasement even in a place where cannibalism is no longer necessary for survival. Others, like Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), believe Lottie is crazy, and they have only themselves to blame for the continuing murder and mayhem in their lives.
Christina Ricci, for one, sees the wilderness as a convenient out for her character, Misty, as she deals with the guilt of having killed her best friend,...
- 5/27/2023
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Fans learned in December that Jason Ritter would be guest-starring on Season 2 of Yellowjackets, in which Melanie Lynskey, his wife, stars as the adult Shauna. The Showtime thriller’s second season, however, ended this week with nary a glimpse of Ritter. But the actor’s cameo is still forthcoming, according to Entertainment Tonight. Ritter and Lynskey, who married in 2020, have shared the screen in two other buzzy TV shows recently. As Lynskey played revolutionary leader Kathleen on HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us this year, Ritter had an uncredited role as an infected “clicker.” “He was a stunt person,” Lynskey said of Ritter’s role during a sit-down this March on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “He trained with the stunt people, and he just did all these amazing stunts. It’s like his lifelong dream. He got put in the makeup and came out of the...
- 5/27/2023
- TV Insider
This post contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of "Yellowjackets."
One of my favorite things about the sophomore season of "Yellowjackets" is that this time around, the Showtime mystery series seemed to be as much in the business of answering questions as asking them. The survival horror series has always shared some storytelling DNA with "Lost," but while that series piled on mystery after mystery, "Yellowjackets" actually eased up on its more enigmatic elements for much of this season — and even went so far as to give us explicit solutions to a few major puzzles.
By the time the credits rolled on the second season finale, fans knew how Javi (Luciano Leroux) survived the winter, what the mysterious queen of hearts playing cards meant, what happened to Lottie (Simone Kessell) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) as adults, and exactly how the show's element of cannibalism came to be. Yet there's one...
One of my favorite things about the sophomore season of "Yellowjackets" is that this time around, the Showtime mystery series seemed to be as much in the business of answering questions as asking them. The survival horror series has always shared some storytelling DNA with "Lost," but while that series piled on mystery after mystery, "Yellowjackets" actually eased up on its more enigmatic elements for much of this season — and even went so far as to give us explicit solutions to a few major puzzles.
By the time the credits rolled on the second season finale, fans knew how Javi (Luciano Leroux) survived the winter, what the mysterious queen of hearts playing cards meant, what happened to Lottie (Simone Kessell) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) as adults, and exactly how the show's element of cannibalism came to be. Yet there's one...
- 5/27/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of "Yellowjackets."
When the starving, superstitious plane crash survivors who make up the core cast of "Yellowjackets" went tearing after Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) in last week's episode, determined to hunt her down after she drew the queen card that sealed her fate, I was still convinced this could have been a one-time thing. Sure, the very first scene of the "Yellowjackets" pilot shows teammates hunting a girl who falls into a pit, then gathering around to feast on her flesh. But in the world of "Yellowjackets," little is as it seems and the most surreal moments often turn out to be hallucinatory. Would the girls really turn this human hunt into a way of life?
Judging by this week's finale, the answer is yes. When the adult Yellowjackets gather at Lottie's (Simone Kessell) compound for a night that escalates to a bloodthirsty,...
When the starving, superstitious plane crash survivors who make up the core cast of "Yellowjackets" went tearing after Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) in last week's episode, determined to hunt her down after she drew the queen card that sealed her fate, I was still convinced this could have been a one-time thing. Sure, the very first scene of the "Yellowjackets" pilot shows teammates hunting a girl who falls into a pit, then gathering around to feast on her flesh. But in the world of "Yellowjackets," little is as it seems and the most surreal moments often turn out to be hallucinatory. Would the girls really turn this human hunt into a way of life?
Judging by this week's finale, the answer is yes. When the adult Yellowjackets gather at Lottie's (Simone Kessell) compound for a night that escalates to a bloodthirsty,...
- 5/27/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the "Yellowjackets" season 2 finale.
Wouldn't it have been funny if this article was just me writing "Yes" and nothing else? Alas, I love, honor, and respect the "Yellowjackets" fandom hive too much than to write a joke post under such a provocative headline, and if you've followed me at all as a "Yj" recapper, you already know that I feel a kinship to Vanessa "Van" Palmer (Liv Hewson/Lauren Ambrose) in some eerily specific ways. Simply put, there was no way I wasn't going to meticulously dissect every last morsel left behind of the season 2 finale to try and get to the bottom of what the hell is going on with Van.
In the '90s timeline, Van has had a bit of a complicated journey. She was initially all-in on Lottie's woo-woo tree-worshipping magical thinking, but after Shauna's baby dies, she starts to approach things more realistically.
Wouldn't it have been funny if this article was just me writing "Yes" and nothing else? Alas, I love, honor, and respect the "Yellowjackets" fandom hive too much than to write a joke post under such a provocative headline, and if you've followed me at all as a "Yj" recapper, you already know that I feel a kinship to Vanessa "Van" Palmer (Liv Hewson/Lauren Ambrose) in some eerily specific ways. Simply put, there was no way I wasn't going to meticulously dissect every last morsel left behind of the season 2 finale to try and get to the bottom of what the hell is going on with Van.
In the '90s timeline, Van has had a bit of a complicated journey. She was initially all-in on Lottie's woo-woo tree-worshipping magical thinking, but after Shauna's baby dies, she starts to approach things more realistically.
- 5/27/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
[This story contains major spoilers from the season two finale of Yellowjackets, “Storytelling.”]
After hearing what Karyn Kusama has to say about the Yellowjackets season two finale, viewers are going to want to rewatch the pilot. The audience of the hit Showtime series could have never seen it at the time, but the tragic full-circle ending for one major character was right there in the first episode of the series.
“Something I know the showrunners had always thought about, and that [co-creators] Ashley [Lyle] and Bart [Nickerson] had always thought about from the pilot, was that mysterious moment when Natalie hallucinates Misty at the kegger in the woods,” Kusama tells The Hollywood Reporter about the first episode of the series, “Pilot,” in a chat after the shocking events of the season two finale. “That was always this time-defying flash-forward to the notion that Misty was always going to be kind of an angel of death for Natalie.”
Kusama, also an executive producer, directed the season two finale,...
After hearing what Karyn Kusama has to say about the Yellowjackets season two finale, viewers are going to want to rewatch the pilot. The audience of the hit Showtime series could have never seen it at the time, but the tragic full-circle ending for one major character was right there in the first episode of the series.
“Something I know the showrunners had always thought about, and that [co-creators] Ashley [Lyle] and Bart [Nickerson] had always thought about from the pilot, was that mysterious moment when Natalie hallucinates Misty at the kegger in the woods,” Kusama tells The Hollywood Reporter about the first episode of the series, “Pilot,” in a chat after the shocking events of the season two finale. “That was always this time-defying flash-forward to the notion that Misty was always going to be kind of an angel of death for Natalie.”
Kusama, also an executive producer, directed the season two finale,...
- 5/27/2023
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Showtime's "Yellowjackets" is about a group of teen girls (and a few boys and men) whose plane crashes in the middle of nowhere while they're on their way to a national soccer tournament. Some members of the team perish in the crash, while others die in the 19 months between the crash and when they were rescued. The very first episode of the show teased that the survivors would eventually resort to cannibalism to survive - which also involves some scary-looking rituals.
Since the series occurs on two timelines - 1996 and the present day - we already know which of the Yellowjackets survived the woods and the few who didn't as season two continues. Some of the characters that people assumed died were revealed to be alive at the end of season one, while the fates of others remain a mystery.
Read ahead for a breakdown of who we know survives their time in the woods,...
Since the series occurs on two timelines - 1996 and the present day - we already know which of the Yellowjackets survived the woods and the few who didn't as season two continues. Some of the characters that people assumed died were revealed to be alive at the end of season one, while the fates of others remain a mystery.
Read ahead for a breakdown of who we know survives their time in the woods,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
This post contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of "Yellowjackets."
"Yellowjackets" is the type of show that's able to elicit a half-dozen different emotions from viewers in the span of just a few minutes. One second, you can be laughing at Jeff (Warren Kole) as he laments that he won't be able to Google himself anymore if he goes on the run, and the next you can be gasping over Kevyn's (Alex Wyndham) death. The show is often scary, funny, and often deeply emotional, but arguably no episode has been more downright heartbreaking than last night's finale.
The hour saw multiple deaths, losses, and changes of fortune for the Yellowjackets, from the aforementioned poisoning of Kevyn to the fire that engulfed the hunting lodge to the crowning of teen Natalie as the new antler queen. Decades later, though, we also saw grown-up Natalie (Juliette Lewis) meet her end, as she...
"Yellowjackets" is the type of show that's able to elicit a half-dozen different emotions from viewers in the span of just a few minutes. One second, you can be laughing at Jeff (Warren Kole) as he laments that he won't be able to Google himself anymore if he goes on the run, and the next you can be gasping over Kevyn's (Alex Wyndham) death. The show is often scary, funny, and often deeply emotional, but arguably no episode has been more downright heartbreaking than last night's finale.
The hour saw multiple deaths, losses, and changes of fortune for the Yellowjackets, from the aforementioned poisoning of Kevyn to the fire that engulfed the hunting lodge to the crowning of teen Natalie as the new antler queen. Decades later, though, we also saw grown-up Natalie (Juliette Lewis) meet her end, as she...
- 5/26/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Yellowjackets Season 2 finale “Storytelling.”] There’s a lot to dissect about the end of Yellowjackets Season 2. Don’t worry: We have you covered. Simone Kessell talks us through the tragic finale where her character, present-day Lottie, revived the ritual of the hunt, ultimately leading to the death of Natalie (Juliette Lewis). The group’s onetime leader was mistakenly killed by a horrified Misty (Christina Ricci) and died surrounded by the other wilderness survivors: Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), Taissa (Tawny Cypress), and Van (Lauren Ambrose). Kessell shares what it was like to shoot those final scenes, how she can’t listen to a certain Radiohead song anymore, and what she’s hoping for in Season 3. The heart of this episode was this resolution of Lottie and Natalie’s long and twisted relationship, and it really ends in tragedy for both. Natalie dies and Lottie is on her way to being institutionalized again.
- 5/26/2023
- TV Insider
This post contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of "Yellowjackets."
After a season of bloodshed, drama, and some excellent dark humor, the sophomore season of "Yellowjackets" drew to a close last night with an extremely bittersweet twist. In the present day, the crash survivors gathered on Lottie's (Simone Kessell) compound for a night that started as a quasi-intervention and quickly descended into ritualistic violence. In the end, Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) drew the queen card that marked her as the women's prey, but it was Natalie (Juliette Lewis) who died when she jumped in front of Lisa (Nicole Maines) to save her from Misty's (Christina Ricci) syringe.
Nat's fate is heartbreaking, compounded by the show's existentially frightening vision of an afterlife where she sits on a nearly-empty plane beside the boy she couldn't save and the girl she once was. At the same time, though, we learn that before Nat lost everything,...
After a season of bloodshed, drama, and some excellent dark humor, the sophomore season of "Yellowjackets" drew to a close last night with an extremely bittersweet twist. In the present day, the crash survivors gathered on Lottie's (Simone Kessell) compound for a night that started as a quasi-intervention and quickly descended into ritualistic violence. In the end, Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) drew the queen card that marked her as the women's prey, but it was Natalie (Juliette Lewis) who died when she jumped in front of Lisa (Nicole Maines) to save her from Misty's (Christina Ricci) syringe.
Nat's fate is heartbreaking, compounded by the show's existentially frightening vision of an afterlife where she sits on a nearly-empty plane beside the boy she couldn't save and the girl she once was. At the same time, though, we learn that before Nat lost everything,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
This is it. The season finale of “Yellowjackets” Season 2, “Storytelling,” closes the loop on this chapter and overarching plot threads with fiery devastation. Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation) returns to direct for the first time since the premiere, bringing some of the show’s themes full circle. While “Storytelling” may not bring the intense thrills of the last episode’s wilderness hunt, the events of this finale instead wreak havoc emotionally and ensure nothing will be the same going forward.
Picking up from the last episode, Travis (Kevin Alves) is immediately relieved to see Nat (Sophie Thatcher) arrive safely back at the cabin. His relief is short-lived when he sees Nat’s tearful, guilt-stricken face before the rest of the teens carry in his baby brother’s frozen body. While the group attempts to handle this new sacrifice and glean its spiritual meaning, their present-day counterparts attempt to...
Picking up from the last episode, Travis (Kevin Alves) is immediately relieved to see Nat (Sophie Thatcher) arrive safely back at the cabin. His relief is short-lived when he sees Nat’s tearful, guilt-stricken face before the rest of the teens carry in his baby brother’s frozen body. While the group attempts to handle this new sacrifice and glean its spiritual meaning, their present-day counterparts attempt to...
- 5/26/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
This story about genre television first appeared in The Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
What is it about genre storytelling that we find so appealing? It’s been 15 years since the MCU first became a box office behemoth. By the time it ended its run, “Game of Thrones” had amassed 59 Emmy Awards, making it the most decorated drama series ever. Last year, “Squid Game” became the first non-English language series to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, and its star, Lee Jung-jae, made history as the first person in a foreign-language show to win Best Actor.
The latest season of TV has served up an even more generous portion of genre storytelling in strong contention for Emmy recognition. Among the most acclaimed are Disney+’s “Andor,” Amazon Prime’s “Swarm” and Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.”
While wildly different—a Star Wars prequel, an occasionally surreal horror-comedy and...
What is it about genre storytelling that we find so appealing? It’s been 15 years since the MCU first became a box office behemoth. By the time it ended its run, “Game of Thrones” had amassed 59 Emmy Awards, making it the most decorated drama series ever. Last year, “Squid Game” became the first non-English language series to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, and its star, Lee Jung-jae, made history as the first person in a foreign-language show to win Best Actor.
The latest season of TV has served up an even more generous portion of genre storytelling in strong contention for Emmy recognition. Among the most acclaimed are Disney+’s “Andor,” Amazon Prime’s “Swarm” and Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.”
While wildly different—a Star Wars prequel, an occasionally surreal horror-comedy and...
- 5/26/2023
- by Libby Hill
- The Wrap
The Season 2 finale of “Yellowjackets” left us with dropped jaws — and a lot of questions. We still don’t know who “pit girl” is, but we did see how things escalate to the point where the survivors began hunting each other to stay alive.
Although, as creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson told TheWrap before the Season 2 premiere, not every question will be answered. Said Nickerson, when asked if he minded the comparisons to the often frustrating “Lost”: “I don’t always want everything to be answered. Like, I do and I don’t, because so much of what made ‘Lost’ so engrossing was the mystery, not just the mystery of what happened, but the sort of reclamation of the spookiness of being alive. You can’t give all the answers and maintain that spookiness.”
With that in mind, here are some of the most pressing issues that still need to be answered.
Although, as creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson told TheWrap before the Season 2 premiere, not every question will be answered. Said Nickerson, when asked if he minded the comparisons to the often frustrating “Lost”: “I don’t always want everything to be answered. Like, I do and I don’t, because so much of what made ‘Lost’ so engrossing was the mystery, not just the mystery of what happened, but the sort of reclamation of the spookiness of being alive. You can’t give all the answers and maintain that spookiness.”
With that in mind, here are some of the most pressing issues that still need to be answered.
- 5/26/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
No lie. The tragic season finale of Yellowjackets made us cry by killing off tormented bad-ass Natalie (Juliette Lewis) who was finally starting to heal from her ’90s wilderness trauma. We also shed a tear for the bleak state of her grieving surviving friends: Misty (Christina Ricci), broken with guilt about accidentally killing Nat; Lottie (Simone Kessell), unhinged and about to be hospitalized; Tai (Tawny Cypress) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) whose suddenly rekindled passion has chilled just as quickly; and teary Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) who can’t deny that her daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins) has inherited her mom’s capacity for violence. The one person who seemed the most stable at the episode’s end was Shauna’s husband Jeff (Warren Kole) – sweet, earnest, furniture salesman Jeff Sadecki! Sure, he watched his old high school friend Kevyn (Alex Wyndham) drop dead and then helped Misty’s murderer boyfriend Walter (Elijah Wood) move the body.
- 5/26/2023
- TV Insider
The darkness surrounding “Yellowjackets” Season 2 has been deepening as the show has progressed, and now events are coming to a head. The Season 2 finale of “Yellowjackets” will be available to stream on-demand on Showtime on Friday, May 26, and will air on the Showtime cable channel at 9 p.m. Et on Sunday, May 28. You can watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Showtime.
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In Season 2 of “Yellowjackets,” two months have passed since Shauna gave Jackie the cold shoulder— to disastrous results. In the face of their deepening hunger and fear, the tension among our Yellowjackets has only grown worse. The harsh conditions of winter are intensifying by the day, and the psyches...
How to Watch 'Yellowjackets' Season 2 Finale When: Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 9:00 Pm Edt Where: Showtime Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Showtime. 7-Day Free Trial$10.99 / month showtime.paramountplus.com About 'Yellowjackets' Season 2 Finale
In Season 2 of “Yellowjackets,” two months have passed since Shauna gave Jackie the cold shoulder— to disastrous results. In the face of their deepening hunger and fear, the tension among our Yellowjackets has only grown worse. The harsh conditions of winter are intensifying by the day, and the psyches...
- 5/26/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Yellowjackets” Season 2 Episode 9, “Storytelling.”]
Long ago, in the quaint winter of 2022, Lottie (Courtney Eaton) killed a bear and offered its heart up as sacrifice to the wilderness on “Yellowjackets.” She told her friends to spill blood and said “let the darkness let us free.”
That is decidedly not what happened.
Despite Lottie’s best efforts in both past and present, “darkness” (also known as savagery and trauma) fully cloaks the stranded teens of the series, following them well into their tormented adult lives. In a season that has gone from bad to worse, “Storytelling” is the definitive destruction of hope, light, and sanctuary.
After languishing for most of the season — or at least moving conspicuously slower than the parallel ’90s flashback — the present-day timeline steers most of the action in “Storytelling,” written by Ameni Rozsa and directed by Karyn Kusama. Every character and storyline converges at Lottie’s (Simone Kessell) forest compound,...
Long ago, in the quaint winter of 2022, Lottie (Courtney Eaton) killed a bear and offered its heart up as sacrifice to the wilderness on “Yellowjackets.” She told her friends to spill blood and said “let the darkness let us free.”
That is decidedly not what happened.
Despite Lottie’s best efforts in both past and present, “darkness” (also known as savagery and trauma) fully cloaks the stranded teens of the series, following them well into their tormented adult lives. In a season that has gone from bad to worse, “Storytelling” is the definitive destruction of hope, light, and sanctuary.
After languishing for most of the season — or at least moving conspicuously slower than the parallel ’90s flashback — the present-day timeline steers most of the action in “Storytelling,” written by Ameni Rozsa and directed by Karyn Kusama. Every character and storyline converges at Lottie’s (Simone Kessell) forest compound,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
Spoilers for "Yellowjackets" follow.
We've known since the "Yellowjackets" pilot that its leads, stranded in the Canadian wilderness during the late 1990s, would eventually resort to ritualistic hunting and cannibalism. The question is how? Season 1 consistently implied it would be the doing of Lottie Matthews (Courtney Eaton). Midway through the season, she began having visions and divining the will of the Wilderness itself.
The rest of the group increasingly turned to her for guidance. In "Doomcoming," Lottie wears a pair of antlers — foreshadowing the Antler Queen sitting at the head of the cannibals in the Pilot — and in the season finale, "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," she kills a bear. The episode ends with her placing the bear's heart on an altar, with Van (Liv Hewson) and Misty (Samantha Hanratty) on either side as her disciples.
That finale is also when we learned Lottie was still alive in the present day...
We've known since the "Yellowjackets" pilot that its leads, stranded in the Canadian wilderness during the late 1990s, would eventually resort to ritualistic hunting and cannibalism. The question is how? Season 1 consistently implied it would be the doing of Lottie Matthews (Courtney Eaton). Midway through the season, she began having visions and divining the will of the Wilderness itself.
The rest of the group increasingly turned to her for guidance. In "Doomcoming," Lottie wears a pair of antlers — foreshadowing the Antler Queen sitting at the head of the cannibals in the Pilot — and in the season finale, "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," she kills a bear. The episode ends with her placing the bear's heart on an altar, with Van (Liv Hewson) and Misty (Samantha Hanratty) on either side as her disciples.
That finale is also when we learned Lottie was still alive in the present day...
- 5/26/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
“The whole time, there was some darkness out there,” Juliette Lewis’ character Natalie says in the trailer for Yellowjackets Season Two, which wrapped on Showtime this month. Now, you can binge the complete Yellowjackets series (so far) and the latest chapter of shocking episodes online for free.
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Following its seven-time Emmy-nominated first season, the new episodes once again switched back and forth between the present and the past, complete with flashbacks from the soccer team’s time in the Canadian wilderness following a traumatic...
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Following its seven-time Emmy-nominated first season, the new episodes once again switched back and forth between the present and the past, complete with flashbacks from the soccer team’s time in the Canadian wilderness following a traumatic...
- 5/26/2023
- by John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
This post contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets."
Season 2 of "Yellowjackets" is over and though it wasn't always paced to my liking, the last three episodes bowled me over. I think the season demonstrates how, for good or ill, character and structure are intertwined in storytelling. What made the 2021 storyline of "Yellowjackets" season 1 good was the characters. In the present day, there's less urgency and sustained mystery than in the 1996 wilderness storyline. So the characters' interactions, and all the intrigue and black comedy carried within them, were what sustained interest.
Watching the Yellowjackets plotting to find out who's blackmailing them or covering up the murder of Adam (Peter Gadiot) was just as exciting as seeing their teenage selves struggle to survive. The debut season's highlight was Misty following Natalie around like a poodle desperate for love — the manic Christina Ricci and dour Juliette Lewis was the salt-and-pepper, '90s screen queen pairing I never knew I needed.
Season 2 of "Yellowjackets" is over and though it wasn't always paced to my liking, the last three episodes bowled me over. I think the season demonstrates how, for good or ill, character and structure are intertwined in storytelling. What made the 2021 storyline of "Yellowjackets" season 1 good was the characters. In the present day, there's less urgency and sustained mystery than in the 1996 wilderness storyline. So the characters' interactions, and all the intrigue and black comedy carried within them, were what sustained interest.
Watching the Yellowjackets plotting to find out who's blackmailing them or covering up the murder of Adam (Peter Gadiot) was just as exciting as seeing their teenage selves struggle to survive. The debut season's highlight was Misty following Natalie around like a poodle desperate for love — the manic Christina Ricci and dour Juliette Lewis was the salt-and-pepper, '90s screen queen pairing I never knew I needed.
- 5/26/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
In The Yellowjackets Season 2 Finale, The Supernatural And The Tragically Ordinary Finally Collapsed
This piece contains major spoilers for the second season finale of "Yellowjackets."
Every character in "Yellowjackets" has been saying it since the show's first episode: there's something out there in those woods. But there have always been just enough seeds planted for doubt to spring forth, blocking the blinding rays of certainty and preventing viewers from fully enrolling in the Lottie Matthews school of "a spirit made me do it."
For every man with no eyes, dead bird rainstorm, and mystical vision, there are logical counter-explanations like stress, subterranean geothermal vents, and mercury poisoning. A common way "Yellowjackets" prevents simplistic supernatural explanations for the strange things which take place is by swerving the action from the supernaturally sinister into the tragically ordinary. The most devastating example of this signature maneuver came in season 2 episode 6, when Shauna's nightmarish discovery that her teammates were devouring her newborn turned out to be a dream,...
Every character in "Yellowjackets" has been saying it since the show's first episode: there's something out there in those woods. But there have always been just enough seeds planted for doubt to spring forth, blocking the blinding rays of certainty and preventing viewers from fully enrolling in the Lottie Matthews school of "a spirit made me do it."
For every man with no eyes, dead bird rainstorm, and mystical vision, there are logical counter-explanations like stress, subterranean geothermal vents, and mercury poisoning. A common way "Yellowjackets" prevents simplistic supernatural explanations for the strange things which take place is by swerving the action from the supernaturally sinister into the tragically ordinary. The most devastating example of this signature maneuver came in season 2 episode 6, when Shauna's nightmarish discovery that her teammates were devouring her newborn turned out to be a dream,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Ryan Coleman
- Slash Film
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