SPOILERS are forward for the Yellowjackets Season 3 finale, which dropped on the 2025 TV schedule this previous Friday!
Nicely… one other season of Yellowjackets is over, and I’m beginning to really feel as traumatized as the highschool soccer team-turned-cannibals, given current occasions. The ultimate episode of Season 3 provided up solutions to lots of the greatest questions we’ve had about Yellowjackets, like the id of pit lady and the (actual) antler queen. Nonetheless, I simply can’t transfer previous one dying (of many this season) that simply doesn’t sit proper with me.
Why The Heck Did Yellowjackets Kill Off Candy Van?
As if it wasn’t sufficient to depart us hanging with Van’s most cancers analysis all season lengthy, in the course of the ninth episode, I used to be completely gutted when the sequence reduce the character’s life quick by having Hilary Swank’s Melissa kill her. I don’t know. The entire thing simply felt pointless to me, even when it’ll preserve the gears turning when it comes to Taissa’s darkish aspect actually popping out extra typically.
Lauren Ambrose’s closing moments as Van whereas sitting within the present’s everlasting airplane mirrored my emotions about the entire thing. Why did she should die so quickly?
My factor is there are such a lot of brutal components Yellowjackets is juggling, like, you already know, literal cannibalism? So, we’d like some good to maintain transferring ahead, and Van offered that in lots of methods.
One factor that stored me going this season was seeing Tai and Van rekindle their romance within the current day. Now I completely perceive what Tawny Cypress meant when she informed me in the course of the Los Angeles press day that she and Ambrose “actually relished” in telling the story, as a result of, because it seems, it was meant to be short-lived.
I am Operating Out Of Characters To Root For On Yellowjackets
Additionally, I must remind you that Van’s dying was on high of maybe a report variety of deaths this season.
After the Season 2 finale had us saying goodbye to Juliette Lewis’s Natalie, we’ve since misplaced grownup Lottie within the current day and Coach Ben and Mari (aka pit lady) within the wilderness within the final season. Who do I’ve left to latch on to anymore? My listing of consolation characters to assist me get by means of this twisted sequence is truthfully getting too small now that Van is out of the image (within the current day, anyway).
At this level, it’s principally me desirous to see how Sophie Thatcher’s Natalie finds assist and manages to get out (and persuade her culty teammates to depart together with her) and for Christina Ricci’s grownup Misty and Elijah Wooden’s Walter to unravel extra Yellowjackets mysteries once more. Oh, and if Shauna’s husband Jeff dies subsequent, I’m straight up rioting within the streets.
I do know what I signed up for. Yellowjackets has been a fairly f-ed up sequence for the reason that begin, however Melissa killing Van simply did not transfer the needle sufficient for me to seek out the heartbreak justified. It felt like extra of a field to tick in an effort to put extra chaos in movement between Tai, Shauna and Melissa.
Nonetheless, I nonetheless need to understand how the story goes on from right here, so you already know I’ll be tuning in for extra if Season 4 occurs.
