She’s got the height and the black hair, and her status as a B-level Yellowjacket means her death would still be shocking if not necessarily narrative-breaking. If she were, she’d probably be a real jerk about it I’m thinking Shannen Doherty in Heathers vibes. She’s a follower, not a leader (she joins Tai on the attempt to find help she agrees to turn back once things get rough she supports Lottie in hunting Travis), and she’ll never be queen bee. Think of how quickly she slides up next to Jackie at the lake once she realizes Jackie and Shauna are sparring and how easily she suggests she and Jackie move their lockers together when they get back to New Jersey.
2 girl in the popularity hierarchy (like Courtney and Whitney in Bring It On from Jackie’s curiously anachronistic favorite-movie characters list) whose purpose is cruelty. Winter is coming in the Canadian wilderness, and in advance of the season-one finale, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi,” I’ve ranked my guesses for who that mysterious teen turned meal might be from most to least likely. (Reminder that in episode three, “The Dollhouse,” Jessica says to Tai, “Some of you guys just love living off the grid,” but other grown-up survivors haven’t yet been introduced.) That doesn’t seem like much to go on - and yet. We also know the person cannot be Shauna, Tai, Nat, or Misty, for whom we’ve met adult counterparts. This is what we do know: The girl is tallish, has dark hair, and is wearing the gold heart necklace worn around Jackie’s neck in her first official moment onscreen (receiving unsatisfying hand stuff from Jeff in her New Jersey bedroom precrash). (Samantha Hanratty, who plays Misty, was the only cast member on set in Mammoth, California, during the filming of this sequence everyone else is played by stunt doubles.) We now know after “Doomcoming” that Lottie is the Antler Queen, but we’re no closer to knowing the identities of the six non-Misty girls - or the one they kill. Is she fleeing? Is she being hunted? Either way, she ends up hung upside down and drained of her blood, then seemingly butchered, roasted, and eaten by the Antler Queen, her six masked followers, and Misty, the only survivor who reveals her face by the end of the episode.
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Closed-captioning tells us there are “whispering voices” everywhere including “calling in distance,” “cawing,” “panting,” “screeching,” and “howling.” Then the young woman falls into a deep pit full of spikes and dies. (It’s giving, very bleakly, Wind River.) As she sprints, crying and panting, the young woman passes various symbols carved in tree trunks (including one that looks like a watchful evil eye) and totems made of bones, feathers, and bark. A girl runs through a snowy forest, bleeding from her foot, wearing what looks like a thin nightgown. Who dies in that opening scene? The sequence is all of 90 seconds or so, and it’s eerie and brutal.
That final query stands side by side with the series’ most long-running mystery, the one introduced in the premiere’s opening minutes that has since hung over Yellowjackets like a ghost. On the other hand, whether in the 1996 or 2021 timelines, there are inexplicable things that are just pretty damn fun to theorize about! What is the deal with that monstrous eyeless man and that red glint to Taissa’s gaze? How long can an individually owned furniture store really survive in an era of Ikea, Ashley, and Bob’s? Why is Shauna’s daughter, Callie, such a brat? Is Lottie, revealed in “Doomcoming” as the Antler Queen from the premiere episode, really clairvoyant and are her visions actually the future? And doesn’t that symbol carved in the trees and the cabin’s attic floorboards look like a woman’s body speared through and hung up with a hook? Ellie Sattler, “sexism in survival situations” without treating it like a puzzle to be unlocked. On the one hand, you could enjoy the show for the ensemble’s dedicated performances, the pitch-perfect soundtrack choices, and the thoughtful portrait of, in the words of Dr. Yellowjackets is awash in, for lack of a better term, weird shit, with just enough ambiguity to make you wonder whether what you’re watching is real, imagined, or somewhere in between. Spoilers follow for Yellowjackets through episode nine, “Doomcoming.”
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