![]() In the present day, the gang decides to stage a hunt-complete with bespoke masks, a deck of cards with just one Queen (of Hearts, naturally), and a bonfire-as a way to buy time until a crisis team can come collect Lottie, who's in the middle of a mental health emergency. And in seasons to come, we'll presumably discover what exactly that was. ![]() ![]() It's not about what the group did it's about what she did. Now we understand the truth of Natalie's guilt. "It's already chosen who should lead us." This is another moment ("When I read it, I was screaming and I called my mom," Sophie Thatcher told us) that reaches its way into the present. "The wilderness chose who fed us," says Lottie. Then Lottie does the unexpected: she abdicates the role of Antler Queen and passes it on to Nat. "Lottie is happy with the wilderness's choice," she tell the Yellowjackets, with Lottie left in the attic to process her in shock and grief. It's in this moment (one that Christina Ricci teased for us) that we understand why Lottie is less than happy to see Misty in the present day timeline: it's Misty who takes the reigns as Lottie's puppet master, admonishing her for starting all this in the first place, and establishing a Svengali-like role at Lottie's side. But instead, Lottie is horrified at what they did-and that they did it in her name. Misty tells her what the group did, expecting Lottie to approve of the wilderness's apparent machinations. Once the lone outsider, the last holdout to reject Lottie's mystical mumbo jumbo, she now not only considers herself one of them, but she considers herself "worse."īut Lottie isn't so high on her own mystical supply anymore either. Here, we see the seeds of dysfunction and grief that permeated the lives of Nat and Travis in adulthood. It begins with young Nat, who returns from the "hunt" in which she was the prey, devastated that she let young Javi die in her place. The cast had told us the finale would be "devastating," and they did not tell a lie. The second season of Yellowjackets reveals a series of twists via flashbacks that reverberate into the present and feed into yet more surprises. (After all, it's the only series that deploys dramatic devices like Chekov's Tori Amos lyric.) Spoilers below.įor once, the wilderness didn't choose. Welcome back to the Yellowjackets hive! Every week we'll be interviewing someone from the addictive Showtime drama to discuss the shockers from the latest episode, get hints on what to look out for in the rest of the season, and to break down the Easter eggs that abound in the show's scripts, props, and even in its killer '90s soundtrack.
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