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Showtime has finally started airing Season 3 of Yellowjackets. Though this season promises even more shock and devastation, the first few episodes haven't been quite as intense as the previous seasons. In this sequence, a time jump features the wilderness in springtime with the surviving teenagers living in a community with a loosely designed government. However, in the present timeline, the Yellowjackets are being stalked by unknown enemies and their trauma continues to be a driving factor in their adult lives.

The mysteries of Yellowjackets continue to enthrall the audience. While the teens are living in peace in the wilderness, their violence and immature nature suggest this will only last so long. As recent shocking events unfold in the present plotline, viewers expect more hardship and looming threats to the survivors. While there's a lot that can cause harm in Yellowjackets, the past two seasons highlight how no other characters are...

Warning: this article contains massive spoilers for "Yellowjackets."

On the latest "Yellowjackets," the teenage cast — stuck in the wilderness and the '90s — held a trial for Coach Ben (Steven Krueger), accused of torching their cabin last season. In the 2021 timeline, Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) was once more haunted by the late Jackie (Ella Purnell) while Tai (Tawny Cypress) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) tested if the Wilderness is hungry for another trade of lives.

Overall, the past storyline (as usual) seemed like the higher stakes one — until the episode's closing moments, when Misty (Christina Ricci) sees the latest post on her Citizen Detective message board. Lottie (Simone Kessell) is dead, lying at the bottom of a stairwell. Just to convince any doubters, the camera lingers on her still body to show, yes, she really is dead.

This twist has got the "Yellowjackets" hive all riled up, and not exactly because they're singing its praises.

This article discusses suicide.

While Yellowjackets is largely centered around a group of female soccer players who get stuck in the wilderness when their plane, en route to a tournament, crashes, there are still some males with them. While most perish, including the pilot, the surviving ones are assistant coach Ben, whose leg had to be amputated, and the coach’s two children, Travis and Javi.

Fans know from the beginning of the Showtime series that, against all odds, Travis managed to survive. This may have been largely thanks to Natalie, who became the de facto leader of the group and had a close relationship with him. However, Travis sadly died decades later long after everyone had been rescued, but far before his time.

Travis’ Tragic Death Kicks Off Natalie’s Warpath The Details Still Remain a Mystery

Travis Martinez, played by Kevin Alves as a teenager and Andres Soto as an adult,...

Showtime's acclaimed supernatural mystery series Yellowjacketsis finally premiering its long-awaited third season on February 14th, its returning tale of wilderness spirits and cannibalism perfectly timed for Valentine's Day date night. The series, which stars beloved actors like Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, and Sophie Thatcher, has been off the air for nearly two years, with production delayed after the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. With such a long gap between seasons, viewers who watched the series week-to-week could be forgiven for needing a refresher on where the story left off. Here's everything to remember before the show returns next week.

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YellowjacketsTV-MADramaMysteryHorrorRelease DateNovember 14, 2021NetworkShowtime, Paramount+ with ShowtimeShowrunnerAshley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Jonathan LiscoCastSee All

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Tawny Cypress Taissa Turner

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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.

Although Jackie was long thought to be the pit girl in the Yellowjackets premiere episode, the season 1 finale debunked this theory and made several remaining survivors, among others, potential choices. Yellowjackets' first episode contains several scenes revealing that, at some point during their time in the woods, the teens resort to cannibalism by trapping and murdering one of their fellow plane crash survivors. While the girls have officially established the pilot's teased sacrificial ritual in Yellowjackets season 2, episode 8, the question remains, who is the infamous pit girl eaten in Yellowjackets?

The majority of Yellowjackets season 1s theories had speculated that Jackie of the cast of Yellowjackets was the girl seen falling into a tiger trap, drained of her blood, and eaten by the group while they wore ritualistic animal skins. Much of the support for this theory came from her dark hair, quick animosity toward the other characters, and the...

Shauna has an affair with Adam, haunted by the past, while Taissa faces scrutiny for her political career and past in Yellowjackets. Misty threatens a reporter, Natalie proves her skills with a rifle, and Jackie discovers a downed plane in the woods in Yellowjackets. Character backstories are explored in depth in Yellowjackets episode 4, shedding light on their past traumas and present struggles.

The following article contains discussions of suicide and child abuse.

Yellowjackets episode 4 is season 1's deep dive into more character backstories, and as the pre-plane crash pasts of the soccer team are revealed, their post-crash lives are thrown into harsher light. In Yellowjackets episode 3, after wandering through the woods looking for shelter, the soccer team manages to find an abandoned cabin with some disturbing wall decorations and the desiccated corpse of who is presumably the cabin's owner in Yellowjackets. Despite the sinister look and aura of the cabin,...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of Yellowjackets As is often the case with popular shows that end their seasons on cliffhangers, Yellowjackets has set the internet ablaze since dropping its Season 2 finale. One of the greatest things to come from Season 2 of the popular show was that we got to meet adult Lottie (played by Simone Kessell). We found out in a closing line in Season 1 that Lottie was in fact alive and had something to do with Travis’ (Andres Soto) death, so we knew we were going to be seeing her soon enough. And while it was certainly a great addition, there is one matter of her character that wasn’t exactly handled with as much care as it should have been, which involves Lottie's timeline in the present.

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,...

[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,...

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...

[This story contains spoilers from the eighth episode of Yellowjackets season two, “It Chooses.”]

Sophie Thatcher says she has been waiting for a specific Yellowjackets moment to arrive: the one that would connect the dots between her younger Natalie and the tortured adult character played by Juliette Lewis, who attempted to take her own life in the season one finale.

In the 1996 ensemble of the Showtime survival series, teen Nat (Thatcher) is grounded. She’s harbored her own demons even before being stranded in the wilderness after the team’s plane crash. But she’s become a huntress who provides for the group, and she has pretty firmly planted her feet in the pragmatic camp when it comes to the unexplained mysteries of the wilderness and the groupthink mentality of the cult of Lottie (Courtney Eaton). But with the penultimate episode of season two, “It Chooses,” that all changes.

With Lottie nearly beaten to death by Shauna (Sophie Nélisse...

The following post contains spoilers for the first five episodes of "Yellowjackets" season 2.

After taking the world by storm in 2021, the genre-bending Showtime series "Yellowjackets" returned in 2023 with a jaw-dropping second season, one full of new characters, long-awaited answers, and even more questions about the mysterious force in the wilderness. The season 2 premiere picks up two months after Jackie's (Ella Purnell) shocking death in the '90s timeline. Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) works through her grief and guilt by talking to the frozen body, while the rest of the team distract themselves from their growing hunger. In the present day, Misty (Christina Ricci) helps Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) cover up the death of her former lover, Taissa (Tawny Cypress) battles for control of her body, and Natalie (Juliette Lewis) finds herself held captive by a familiar cult.

Season 1 hinted at the girls' cannibalism in its shocking debut scene, establishing it as a...

Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5.One of the lingering mysteries left unsolved since the first season of Yellowjackets is the meaning of adult Travis' (Andres Soto) cryptic suicide note, in which he writes, “Tell Nat she was right.” By the end of the first season, we still didn’t know what Travis meant by those words, and we also had little clue about who he asked to keep the message safe. By introducing the adult version of Lottie (Simone Kessell), Season 2 solved part of the mystery, as the cult leader was with Travis when he took his own life. However, as much as Lottie would like to believe she has special powers, she’s also clueless about the meaning of Travis’ note. In Season 2, Episode 5, we finally learn Travis' note was a nod to a strange vision adult Natalie (Juliette Lewis) experienced during an overdose.

This article contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets."It's always been a tight race between Juliette Lewis and Tawny Cypress for the most emotionally searing performance from the adult cast of "Yellowjackets." Cypress' Taissa became the biggest success of the survivors after returning from the wilderness, creating a beautiful family with her loving wife, Simone (Rukiya Bernard), and winning a seat in the New Jersey state senate. But her dark side, which was awakened by those woods but did not disappear when she escaped them, has also caused her to fall the furthest. The near-feral state of unconscious savagery and self-division Taissa has descended to over the course of season two has broken up her family, jeopardized her career, and seriously threatened her sanity.

Nearly all of adult Taissa's scenes are hard to watch these days, which can't be said about adult Natalie's (Juliette Lewis). Sequestered at Lottie's cultish wellness compound Camp Green Pine,...

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

Female friendships are complicated.

On ‘Yellowjackets,” Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) loves, envies, and resents best friend Jackie (Ella Purnell) right until her untimely death while stranded in the Canadian Rockies. She goes on to marry Jackie’s boyfriend, hold on to her old soccer uniform, and during a moment of hunger, fascination, and overwhelming guilt during the Season 2 premiere — why not all three? — ate Jackie’s ear.

Unfortunately, things only get murkier.

In Episode 2, “Edible Complex,” written by showrunners Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, and Jonathan Lisco and directed by Ben Semanoff, the hallucinated Dead Jackie bit starts to grow stale (no pun intended). That’s not an indictment of the storyline but a testament to its efficacy; in the show timeline, this has been going on for Two Months — two months of Shauna rearranging her dead friend’s limbs, writing her fake journal, and getting into...

[This story contains spoilers for the season two premiere of Yellowjackets, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen.”]

Two months have passed when Yellowjackets returns to the wilderness. Two whole months since the teen survivors of a plane crash suffered the loss of one of their own — and hunted their last source of food.

The second season of Showtime’s hit coming-of-age survival series opened with the 1996 timeline to show how teen Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) and her teammates are handling the death of Jackie (Ella Parnell), who froze to death when she slept outside following a brutal fight with best friend Shauna that led to the team exiling her from the house they’ve inhabited heading into winter.

The short answer for Shauna is, not well. Clearly wrecked with remorse over Jackie dying (a cold front swept in overnight after Shauna instigated her banishment), Shauna has decided to keep Jackie’s corpse around for conversations and even dress-up. While the scenes mark an exciting return for actress Parnell,...

Exclusive: Kevin Alves, who plays the role of Travis Martinez on Yellowjackets, has been upped to series regular.

For those who missed the first season of the Showtime drama, Travis is the son of Bill Martinez, the head coach of the Yellowjackets girls soccer team. The players were bound for the nationals when their plane crashed in the wilderness of Canada and the coach was killed.

Travis, who’s a guarded and insecure teen, ended up starting a romance with Natalie Scatorccio, played by Sophie Thatcher as a teen and Juliette Lewis as an adult.

Travis was played as an adult in season one by Andres Soto.

Before Yellowjackets, Alves recurred for two seasons on both Shadowhunters as Bat Belasquez and Locke & Key as Javi Gonzalez. He previously appeared on Warehouse 13 and as Fabio on Degrassi: The Next Generation.

New cast members set for the second season of Yellowjackets include Elijah Wood,...