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This article contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets" season 3 episode 7, "Croak."

Season 3 of "Yellowjackets" spent the first four episodes laying the groundwork for some massive moments of payoff, but episode 5 kicked things into high gear and the season has thrown some meaty stories to the cannibalistic fandom hungering for more. Since the very beginning, fans have known that the surviving Wiskayok High School Yellowjackets soccer team players have been terrified of the general public knowing about "what happened in the woods," but it was assumed that they were afraid the public would find out about their survival cannibalism, or perhaps even their ritualistic ways of determining who would be sacrificed for meat. In season 1, when Taissa Turner (Tawny Cypress) is campaigning for state senator of New Jersey, her opponent Phil Bathurst releases an attack ad depicting her as "cannibalizing your tax dollars," complete with a photo of her eating barbecue to reference...

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As Jenn and I embark on a month of “Survival Cannibalism” true crime titles, we’re binging Showtime’s Yellowjackets. Each day on Patreon we’re discussing two episodes of the series, working our way through S01 and S02, catching up just in time to watch the new season on Feb 14.

In Yellowjackets, an all-female high school soccer team crashes in the Canadian Rockies en route to Nationals in 1996, stranding the teens in the wilderness for 19 months. As team leader Jackie (Ella Purnell) struggles to adjust, her secretly pregnant best friend Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) drifts towards the leadership style of domineering Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and spiritual Lottie (Courtney Eaton).

Meanwhile, bad girl Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) begins hunting with – and dating – Travis (Kevin Alves), while outcast Misty (Samantha Hanratty) finds new purpose as a member of the group. But what’s up with the creepy cabin, the symbols,...

Yellowjackets writer Ashley Lyle revealed Sunday that the cast of the Showtime series often host “funeral parties” for each other when characters die.

“Killing off a character means nothing but good story,” Lyle said during an appearance at this weekend’s Vulture Fest. “It’s often really heartbreaking.”

Yellowjackets, which first premiered in 2021 and follows two parallel storylines of teenagers and their adult counterparts, has harbored its fair share of gruesome and emotional character deaths. Two seasons in, Travis (Andres Soto), Adam Martin (Peter Gadiot), Laura Lee (Jane Widdop), Jessica Roberts (Rekha Sharma), Jackie (Ella Purnell), Crystal (Nuha Jes Izman), Javi (Luciano Leroux), Kevyn Tan (Charlie Wright) and Natalie (Juliette Lewis) have all bid their final adieu.

“I think it’s really lovely that the actors have started having funeral parties for each other,” Lyle continued. “I’ve attended several. It’s very sweet. They’re very closely knit, particularly our younger cast.

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Yellowjackets” Season 2 Episode 8, “It Chooses.”]

“Does a hunt that have no violence feed anyone?”

That’s the question posed to Lottie (Simone Kessell) by her “therapist” — quickly revealed to be her subconscious — in “Yellowjackets” Season 2, Episode 7, the question whose answer and meaning reveal themselves in ghastly fashion in Episode 8, “It Chooses.” Not only are our survivors starved and delirious, but they now hunger as much for food as for fight to acquire it.

Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer and written by Sarah L. Thompson & Liz Phang, “It Chooses” is littered with indicators of everyone reaching the end of their tether during the bleak midwinter. There is hunger, there is starvation, and then there is whatever this is; exhaustion, blurred vision, hallucinations of blood spilling from the walls, cradling your pet mouse corpse and being tempted to take a bite out of his emaciated body. Only Nat (Sophie Thatcher) says it,...

This article contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets" season 2 episode 8.

After the cliffhanger bloodbath that was last week's episode, "It Chooses" picks up with Mari and Misty holding up Lottie over a bowl so she can pee. Unfortunately, Lottie's pissing blood, likely because Shauna kicked her square in the kidneys a few times. The girls have brought her up to the attic to try and heal, but Mari's making snarky jokes and Misty has had enough of it. Mari takes the piss bowl downstairs, but drops it on the floor and starts crying. I think she's finally cracking from the severity of the situation. Through her pain, Lottie is having visions that resemble ones she'll have again as an adult. Things are getting bad for our Yellowjackets.

Adding to the list of People Having a Bad Time™, Akilah is playing with the baby mouse she's been mothering the last few episodes and...

Warning! This article contains Spoilers for Yellowjackets season 2, episode 6!Elijah Woods' Yellowjackets character Walter is just as odd as Misty, but there are several theories floating around that could explain what he's really up to. Walter Tattersall was introduced in a voiceover-only capacity in the Yellowjackets season 2 premiere, lighting up the citizen detective board as PuttingTheSickInForensics with his theories about Adam Martin's disappearance. Misty tried her best to do her due diligence and downvote his various hypotheses. However, this only caused Walter to foster further interest in her, culminating in a visit to her nursing home where he toured the facility with a woman he pretended was his mother.

Misty and Walter eventually teamed up to find out what happened to Natalie after she was kidnapped. This resulted in the pair posing as FBI agents and questioning Randy, taking a trip to upstate New York, and staying at a B&b,...

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After a week off the air, "Yellowjackets" returns with everyone's favorite high school memory — underfunded and poorly executed sex ed! The girls are learning about "the miracle of life" from an old tape being played by Coach Ben because it's the 1990s so of course an athletic coach or gym teacher is also tasked with educating how babies are made.

A shock to no one, Randy is the class clown who can't resist making comments about the man in the video having a small peen, because there's nothing gayer than a straight man's comedic discomfort about nude men. Van rightfully shoves her entire hand in a condom to prove that Randy's claims they're "too small for him" is total B.S. and Misty is hushing everyone for talking because of course she is. Jeff passes a note to Shauna in class,...

Warning: The following contains Spoilers for Yellowjackets season 2, episode 5. The most bizarre adult survivor character in Yellowjackets is Christina Ricci's Misty Quigley, but one particular season 2 death has proved to deeply inform her character. Misty's unpopularity in the past timeline was made abundantly clear from the get-go. Her social skills are sorely lacking, as evidenced by her continuous tactlessness in both the past and present, which gave way to her being bullied in her younger years and resulted in no meaningful friendship. Her attachments in adulthood are equally wanting, obsessively clinging to Natalie in particular, even though Nat has made it clear that she wants little to do with her.

Things seemed to change for Misty when she was shown to finally have not one but two new friends. Both newcomers to the Yellowjackets season 2 cast, Misty was shown to befriend Yellowjackets team member Crystal in the 1996 timeline...

Warning! Contains Spoilers for Yellowjackets season 2, episode 4!Taissa's hired reporter Jessica Roberts was last seen in Yellowjackets season 1, but a recent excursion to her apartment has shed some more light on her ambiguous fate. Jessica Roberts (Rekha Sharma) was first introduced in the premiere episode of Yellowjackets, trying to wriggle information out of those loosely connected to the plane crash, like a teacher and the injured Allie, and various survivors like Shauna. It wasn't revealed until later that Jessica was an associate of Taissa's and a private detective, trying to make sure that none of her former teammates would say anything condemning that would disrupt her race for State Senator of New Jersey.

Jessica of the Yellowjackets season 1 cast managed to anger the wrong Yellowjacket when she listened in on Natalie and Kevyn Tan's conversation, trying to dig up dirt on Travis' tragic death, and Misty caught wind of it.

This article contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets" season 2.

While the promise of mysteries, criminal activity, cannibalism, and a story of survival may have gotten most "Yellowjackets" viewers in the door, it has been the complex, fascinating characters that keep folks coming back each week. The major characters of Shauna, Taissa, Natalie, Misty, Lottie, and Van have given us two different timelines to become our beloved favorites, but there are plenty of supporting characters that audiences can't get enough of, and I'm not just talking about their teammates in the cabin.

It's sincerely impressive that "Yellowjackets," a show that prioritizes the stories of women above all else, managed to make a legion of fans (many of whom are queer) become obsessively protective of Shauna's himbo wifeguy Jeff (Warren Kole). And of course, who could forget the consistent comedic relief that comes from a character like Randy (Jeff Holman), the words of wisdom...

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Now that we've recovered from yet another bleak visual set to a Tori Amos song, "Yellowjackets" season 2 episode 4 picks up in 1996. Tai's sleepwalking is continually sending her to trees with the symbol carved into them, but she's still claiming she has no recollection of doing it or why. "Something in you knows that these trees are here," says Van. As one of Lottie's disciples, Van wants Taissa to at least talk to her about what's going on, but Tai firmly puts her foot down. Always the logical one, that Taissa. Van has been keeping maps of all of the places Taissa has taken her while sleepwalking, trying to find a pattern. It's clear that a rift is forming between the two, solely based on whether or not they believe in Lottie's so-called "powers." It's only a matter of time before the rest of the team follows suit.

With only a few months remaining until its return, Yellowjackets season 2 has cast Jason Ritter, the real-life husband of adult Shauna actor Melanie Lynskey, in an undisclosed role for the series. Yellowjackets season 2 is poised to reveal more about what happened when the girl high school soccer team was stranded in the woods, both through the teenage and adult storylines showcased in the series. Shauna appears as a central character in both timelines, with the adult version of herself currently dealing with the aftermath of murdering Adam, a man she was having an affair with. Shauna and her husband, Jeff, covered up the murder, alongside other surviving members of the Yellowjackets.

As Shauna's marriage now harbors a deadly secret, Variety reports that Ritter will be joining his real-life wife on the set of Yellowjackets season 2. Ritter's role has yet to be disclosed, however it appears to be a guest role,...

Yellowjackets star Sophie Nélisse, who plays a young Shauna Shipman in the thriller drama, says season 2 of the acclaimed series will see even more graphic violence than season 1. Debuting on Showtime in 2021, Yellowjackets proved itself as a gripping, mystery-laden series about what happened to a group of girls high school soccer players after surviving a plane crash, and how their adult lives have been impacted by their experiences. The Emmy-nominated series is no stranger to graphic depictions of blood and gore, as the show's opening scene features a girl who falls into a spike pit, setting the tone for the rest of the series.

In an interview with Variety, Nélisse said that Yellowjackets season 2 will be even more violent than the first. She cites episode 6 as the most intense of the season, with the episode seemingly acting as a climactic payoff for the first half of the season. Check out...

This post contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets" season 1.

On Showtime's "Yellowjackets," Misty Quigly, played by Christina Ricci as an adult and Sammi Hanratty as a teenager in flashbacks, is an outcast with a twisted character profile. As the equipment manager for the Whs Yellowjackets girls' soccer team, Misty is unpopular. Yet she has an overwhelming desire to fit in and is willing to go to some very questionable lengths to make that happen. When the team's plane crashes in the wilderness en route to a tournament, Misty's knowledge of first aid gains her more acceptance, and it feels so good to be needed that she secretly smashes the plane's flight recorder, thereby eliminating any chance that they will be located and rescued.

Despite this and other moves that go against the good of the group, Ricci sees something in Misty that keeps her weirdly relatable even as she acts out in crazy ways.

Spoiler Alert: This post includes some major reveals for the Season 1 finale of Showtime’s Yellowjackets, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.”

Just when it seems Yellowjackets couldn’t get any more sinister than “Doomcoming,” the Season 1 finale proves otherwise.

Hungover and exhausted from their trippy, makeshift dance, Shauna (Sophie Nélisse), Lottie (Courtney Eaton) and the rest of the survivors awake to grapple with the violence of the night before. Shrugging off his near-death experience is Travis (Kevin Alves), who gives a concerned Nat (Sophie Thatcher) the cold shoulder and declares that he’s going to search for younger brother Javi, who seems to have gone missing amid the chaos of the previous evening.

In the present Misty (Christina Ricci) meets up with Nat (Juliette Lewis) to help Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) and Taissa (Tawny Cypress) get rid of Adam’s body. Misty, eerily calm at the site of Adam’s murder, walks...