Spoilers beneath for the third episode of Yellowjackets Season 3 for anybody who hasn’t but streamed the episode with a Paramount+ subscription.
One of many greatest overarching mysteries holding Yellowjackets followers guessing is Taissa’s unexplained tormenter identified solely at this level as No-Eyes Man. After providing no solutions in Season 2, the showrunners are seemingly honing in on the origins of this creepy AF character, which apparently ties again to a New Jersey ice cream parlor whose flavors appear to reference fashionable bands of the Nineties and 2000s.
After hallucinating No-Eyes Man exterior the restaurant in Episode 2 (with what gave the impression to be an enormous candle on his head), Taissa was lastly capable of deliver another person into her horror throughout “Them’s the Brakes.” One in every of Van’s random VHS tapes contained a business for Ozzie’s Do-it-yourself Ice Cream, with a extra naturally human iteration of the character actually shedding his ocular orbs as a consequence of Ozzie’s eye-popping flavors. It’s weirdly on the nostril (Or above it, because it had been.)
However the greatest reveal throughout that bizarro advert was a telephone quantity to Ozzie’s that I instantly paused the episode to name, and was overjoyed upon studying that the quantity not solely labored, nevertheless it additionally offered round two minutes’ price of creepy lore-building, much like the telephone quantity for Lottie’s Wellness Neighborhood in Season 2.
What Occurred After I Known as Ozzie’s Telephone Quantity
Fortunately, my wariness about no person answering the decision was rapidly vanquished by a recorded message. The (first) individual talking had an virtually criminally squeaky-clean voice, akin to only about any character 30 Rock vet Jack McBrayer has portrayed. However he is not the one voice we hear.
You see, it seems a breach in time could have affected the outgoing message, with frequent glitching that admittedly makes issues tougher to know. The happy-go-lucky employee’s dated message is quickly interrupted by the far much less chipper (however extra present) voice of somebody sounding primed for doom and catastrophe.
Hi there. Yeah. That is Ozzie’s, the home made ice cream place out on Route 9. As of now, our scoops are damaged, our pie plates cracked, and our doorways have closed for the final time. . . . 34 years. . . .
Because the episode itself goes on to disclose, Ozzie’s did certainly shut down in some unspecified time in the future, leaving solely a 5 NIghts at Freddy‘s-esque shell of an empty constructing in its wake. However that wasn’t all the knowledge specified by the decision. Listed below are among the ice cream flavors listed by each audio system on the decision, with a number of references to musical acts within the combine. (A few of these could also be unsuitable, additionally, so please forgive me.)
- Smashed Pumpkins (Smashing Pumpkins)
- Cranberry Dream (The Cranberries’ 1993 monitor “Desires”)
- Buddies of Peach (??)
- Scorching Canine Water (Probably reference to Limp Bizkit’s Chocolate Starfish and the Scorching Canine-Flavored Water)
- Remorse (Probably referencing New Order’s ’93 single “Remorse” or the punk band No Remorse)
- Shrimp (??)
- Cigarette Ash (??)
- My [??] Valentine (My Bloody Valentine)
- Mighty Mighty Boston Cream Pie (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones)
Clearly Ozzie’s by no means showcased flavors like Scorching Canine Water and Cigarette Ash, however is that simply the worker’s thought of a joke, or are they going slightly nutso? My cash is on the latter, as that individual veers off into oddball territory, saying:
Time’s bizarre. The way in which a second feels so everlasting, even whereas it is melting away, prefer it by no means existed in any respect. All we went by way of to get right here. The limitless swirling and cream and sugar, churning, frozen at nighttime.
Additionally not 100% certain if that is what was stated, however even when everyting is not actual, it isn’t as if one or two phrase modifications would make that sentiment sound utterly regular and sane.
Maybe the most important query to come back away from this telephone name with is “Who’s the voice of the extra disturbed individual?” Is it meant to be No-Eyes Man, whose voice we’ve not knowingly heard but? Or another person who could have been completely affected by no matter horrible shit went on at Ozzie’s throughout its heyday?
Price noting: my preliminary name to Ozzie’s ended with the voice asking callers to go away a message, which I did on the time. However after I known as for the second time, that a part of the message was seemingly lower off, although it is doable that solely occurs for repeat callers.
Is The No-Eyes Man Actual Or A Manifestation Of Tai’s Trauma?
Regardless of giving viewers extra to gnaw on the place No-Eyes Man is anxious, neither the ’90s-set business nor the telephone message supplied up any direct connective strains between the ghoulish entity and Tawny Cypress’ disgraced Senator. Not that Tai has far more info than followers do, as she’s nonetheless deep within the throes of confusion as properly.
As it has been established, Tai relates the eyeless weirdo to her grandmother’s home, the place she noticed him in a mirror one not less than one event. And she or he does so once more when making an attempt to clarify herself to Van, saying:
Holy shit, I should have seen that advert after I was little, and the person…no eyes…and my grandmother died, and I…
So now the query now turns into: is No-Eyes Man a literal being (supernatural or in any other case) who’s wittingly tormenting the previous athlete, or if the imaginative and prescient is definitely simply how Tai is ready to course of some unknown trauma or tragedy that occurred previous to her grandmother’s demise. For instance, if she suffered bodily or emotional abuse as that advert aired on TV, or if she confronted the same stage of abuse whereas inside one in all Ozzie’s places.
Or maybe Tai was attacked in some unspecified time in the future by the one who performed the person who misplaced his eyes within the Ozzie’s business, and her reminiscence of him as turn out to be extra twisted and monstrous over time. Which might clarify why he appears to be like completely human within the advert, and seems to be carrying both a masks or prosthetic make-up in Tai’s hallucinations.
Regardless of the explanations behind all the things, I am 100% hooked on studying who within the harrowing hell No-Eyes Man really is, and why Taissa can not seem to cease interested by him. So I will be watching new episodes hitting Paramount+ each Friday, and airing on Showtime on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET.