Spoilers under for anybody who isn’t absolutely updated on Yellowjackets’ third season by streaming with a Paramount+ subscription, so be warned!
One of many deadliest exhibits on the present TV schedule must be Showtime’s cannibalism-infused horror drama Yellowjackets, whose ever-growing physique depend is strewn throughout two utterly separate timelines and areas. Followers (and Misty) are nonetheless getting over shedding Juliette Lewis’ Natalie within the hectic Season 2 finale, and whereas Season 3 hasn’t precisely been affected by shallow graves, two victims have exhibits up up to now: the diligent waiter and Lottie, whose loss of life technically hasn’t been confirmed but.
Nevertheless it’s not as if any viewers are sitting at residence feeling very assured that their favourite characters will 100% survive the remainder of the third season’s installments. And co-star Sophie Nélisse advised EW that extra harrowing exits are undoubtedly on the best way, saying:
As we go, there’s clearly extra characters which have to depart us, and those that we care about probably the most are those that need to go. I’ve all the time mentioned this to folks that die. I am like, ‘It is truly a testomony to how good of an actor you’re as a result of we cannot kill you off if we do not care about you [because] the viewers will not care both.’
If that is the case, then followers might very properly count on each single essential character on the present to die, since they’re all magnificent and beloved. (Even you, scruffy-ass Coach Ben.) However let’s check out the characters I feel are largely prone to get killed off earlier than this season is over. Early R.I.P., y’all.
Robin
Do not feel bizarre about scratching your head and questioning who Robin is, since Anisa Harris’ character was solely added into Season 3 as one of many remaining background survivors. And he or she admittedly hasn’t made a giant impression on any scenes to date.
Nonetheless, I would identified in Episode 4 that she appeared a number of instances on display wanting as emotionally bereft as one could possibly be with out having any significant dialogue to again it up. Which probably served as a stepping stone to Robin being given one thing worthwhile to do in an upcoming episode. However as a result of we barely know something about her, I feel her official introduction will weave in simply sufficient particulars to have followers longing for her survival earlier than she meets a doomed destiny.
Coach Ben
I can not consider the trial on the coronary heart of “12 Offended Women And 1 Drunk Travis” someway succeeded in watering down my suspicion that Coach was accountable for burning the cabin down on the finish of Season 2. And but it did. However the responsible verdict did not precisely give me a lot religion about his survival possibilities.
Although Nat and Misty nonetheless clearly need to preserve him alive, even when he is exiled to reside alone, the cruel approach that Shauna strong-armed others into taking her aspect doesn’t suggest peace talks and pleased instances forward for the one-legged beardo.
Tai
Far be it for me to rain on the parade of anybody celebrating Tai and Van’s relationship going in addition to it has, however this can be a present the place happiness is fleeting and short-term. Tawny Cypress’ model of the character appears to be in a darkish spot that she will be able to’t simply escape from, and has already been partly accountable for another person’s loss of life. And we’re nonetheless not even clear on how Tai being haunted by No-Eyes Man connects with any of the Wilderness survival plotting.
If Van really is in remission and now not at risk of succumbing to cancer-related points, then it solely makes TV-logical sense for Tai to be the a part of this couple to say farewell. Although we nonetheless want extra solutions earlier than that may occur.
Walter
In Season 2, Elijah Wooden’s Walter was a spectrum-y breath of recent air because the ever-prepared and correct knight in crime-hiding armor who gave Misty the eye and friendship she wanted most. However right here in Season 3, Misty has sadly misplaced all curiosity in Walter, and customarily misplaced no matter couth she might have harbored in how she treats him, based mostly on her misguided perception that the opposite Yellowjackets survivors genuinely like her.
So despite the fact that Walter is technically in guardian angel mode proper now, inspiring her to depart the home and saving her drunk ass, he is extra expendable than he is ever been, and except he begins promoting furnishings with Jeff actually quickly, I feel Misty goes to free herself from his doting in a most everlasting approach.
Mari
With Mari, I feel Yellowjackets‘ inventive crew could possibly be making use of the age-old narrative trick of “Make audiences fear about somebody till they see that character is undeniably secure, after which kill them.” That is most likely not an actual time period, however shut sufficient.
Mari’s short-term keep in Coach’s pit might not have cemented her because the thriller Pit Lady, however having a damaged leg is not going to be a lot assist for the teenager if she’s being chased or has to flee a harmful scenario shortly, akin to passing out in a cave crammed with noxious fumes. In fact, if Shauna finally ends up being the one that does the deed, Mari might have seven legs and nonetheless by no means outrun her foe’s fury.
Jeff
Whereas it is unclear how a lot of Shauna’s pre-Wilderness life could possibly be categorised as “traumatic,” she’s confronted nothing however horrifying circumstances since that fateful aircraft crash, from shedding (after which ingesting) her greatest pal to shedding (and definitely not ingesting) her stillborn child. And extra ugliness is little question but to come back.
However by and huge, Melanie Lynskey’s grown-up Shauna hasn’t confronted something fairly as harrowing as her former self, at the very least the place it is not. her fault totally. And I do not assume the present would go as far as to kill off Sarah Desjardins’ Callie. And now that Jeff and Shauna are nearer than ever with a bond reforged by heinous legal acts, his loss of life would function the simplest technique to break Shauna’s coronary heart.
Van
Contemplating Yellowjackets viewers by no means truly witnessed Van’s physician telling her the fantastic information about her most cancers remission, I’ve my suspicions about whether or not or not that message was truly given to her. Not that I need to consider all of her current happiness has been a entrance to cowl up what was truly a way more dour replace on her well being.
In fact, this might additionally play out the best way I advised for Mari, the place viewers are made to consider that Van is now secure from most cancers risks, just for her to get hit by a automotive or struck by lightning in some freak accident, with or with out the Wilderness’ affect concerned. It is perhaps extra highly effective a plot twist for Van and Tai go get killed off collectively, however I actually hope that is not the case.
Discover out whose quantity can be up subsequent when Yellowjackets streams new episodes on Fridays on Paramount+, with Showtime airing the eps on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m.