Not all mystery-box shows are built to sustain the speculation and scrutiny they invite, but Yellowjackets has laid a strong foundation. chaneyj writes
Jackie’s fate at the end of season one checks a mystery-revealed box, but more importantly, this discovery really hurts. Photo: Kailey Schwerman/Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME The Yellowjackets season-one finale packs more twists and reveals into its last ten minutes than some entire seasons of television.
Yellowjackets is such a multifaceted show that all of these takes qualify as accurate interpretations of its magnetic pull. But I keep coming back to the mystery element and how smartly co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, along with their writers, have handled it. I see a lot of Lost in Yellowjackets. To be fair, I see Lost in a lot of things: all kinds of TV shows, polar bears in any context, airplanes generally.
We do find out some things, though. We learn that Jackie froze to death while sleeping outside in the woods after Shauna told her to leave the cabin during a nasty argument. But we don’t yet know, despite all the speculation on Reddit and elsewhere, whether Jackie becomes dinner for her fellow Yellowjackets. The opening sequence of the pilot makes it fairly clear that at some point, the girls resort to cannibalism after several months of trying to survive in the middle of nowhere.
This reminded me of the kidnapping of Walt in “Exodus,” the multipart season-one finale of Lost, when Walt gets snatched by the Others, turning what at first appears to be a long-awaited rescue opportunity into a disturbing new emergency. It’s a development that confirms one thing — the Others really are interested in capturing children — while giving us new issues to worry about, like where they are taking Walt and what exactly they plan to do with him.
The scene has serious emotional impact because of Juliette Lewis’s performance. The way her face contorts with such profound anguish in that close-up of her with the gun is absolutely wrenching to watch. Lewis radiates desperation and reminds us how much we don’t want Nat to die. That’s why Nat getting kidnapped is so jarring and complicated. On one hand, she’s saved.
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