‘Yellowjackets’ Creators Confirm [SPOILER] Is Definitely Happening Next Season
Warning: Yellowjackets spoilers lie ahead! Don’t keep reading if you haven’t seen the finale.
Yellowjackets ended its first season on a pretty explosive note: Nat was kidnapped by what definitely looks to be a cult, Jackie froze to death, and we found out Taissa has an altar with a dead dog head in her laundry room. But one thing the show didn’t touch? What they’ve been teasing all season long: cannibalism.
While the pilot episode made it seem like Yellowjackets would feature some casual ritualistic cannibalism, we have yet to see the team actually go through with it—prompting theories (including from yours truly) that said cannibalism is actually a giant red herring. But nope. They’re definitely about to eat each other.
“It’s a case of wanting to make sure that we build the story properly and have—despite the heightened quality of the show—have the right amount of grounding,” Ashley Lyle explained to Entertainment Tonight when asked why they didn’t end the season with cannibalism. “And in our minds, it just would take longer than the time we allotted for the first season to get to that actual point. I mean, in terms of crossing a Rubicon, that is a very big one. So we wanted to really hit the emotional moments that we could see as precursors to that. The intention was always that season 1 was always meant to be spring, summer, fall with a sort of ‘winter is coming’ feel to it. And then season 2, winter hits and it’s sort of the apex of everything that we’ve seen building toward. I would love to reassure all our viewers that we’re not going to drag out cannibalism for five seasons. It is very much coming, but we want to make sure we get there the right way.”
Cocreator Bart Nickerson also added that the show did in fact show cannibalism in the pilot and they “wanted to build to not just that they do in fact engage in cannibalism, but why they do. So really being able to build that out and sort of earn it in the way that we’d like and have planned to do, we just want to give that the time that it needs to be a kind of satisfying, engaging, and believable.”
Got it/can’t wait/shudder.
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