Spoilers

“Storytelling”

I thought there were two more episodes remaining in season 2 of Yellowjackets, but it turned out that episode nine was the season finale of this show that has been so wildly entertaining and nearly as disturbing.

“You know there’s no it, right? It was just us.”

This line was spoken by Shauna after she drew the Queen card as the six women re-enacted the “hunt.” procedure from the wilderness. This whole thing was odd since they all seemed to put on the masks and chase after Shauna, even though they had spoke about turning Lottie back in for her mental illness. Would they have killed Shauna? What is with these women?

The way that these seemingly normal women turn into wild savages is one of the most disturbing aspects of this show for me. I did not understand why Tai, Van, Natalie and Misty put those masks on and grabbed their weapons and chased Shauna. I understand why Lottie did it… she’s bat shit crazy. The others? Just does not make sense.

Back to the line that Shauna stated. “You know there’s no it, right? It was just us.” implies that there was no magical ‘wilderness’, no “IT” in the darkness. It was the choices that they made that created the darkness.

Such as eating poor Javi. Everyone jumped right in, including Travis. Only Ben was seeing somewhat straight. I thought Ben did not have long for the series, but maybe he has more than we thought. I still have not seen him in the present day, but that does not mean that he did not survive the trip. And it sure seems as if he set that cabin on fire, trying to trap the girls inside.

I couldn’t believe that Natalie died in the present as she stepped between Misty and the cult member she had befriends (with the fish). Misty was going to stab her with the poison, but Natalie put herself in the way, taking the needle and thus dying. Seeing her afterlife aboard the airplane with images of her younger self, Javi and past Lottie was frightening. I was shocked with this death and I wonder how it will project the story forward.

The whole Adam storyline seems to be put to bed by Walter, framing and killing Kevyn for the crime. Some of these characters are very likable, and yet downright psychotic. No matter what… Walter and Misty are the perfect match and that scares me a little.

I think I prefer the idea that there is not an evil, malevolent force in the wilderness making these decision, but that it was these girls looking for some sort of way to survive and justifying what they did in their own minds. How accurate… truthful… is anything that we have seen in the crash timeline? Is this an example of an unreliable narrator, showing us what these girls had made inside their minds.

“You know there’s no it, right? It was just us.”

Lottie’s response?: “Is there a difference?“