Spoilers under for followers who haven’t but watched the most recent Yellowjackets episode both on Showtime or streaming with a Paramount+ subscription.
Buzz, buzz, the coach is lifeless. Which outdated coach? The possibly depraved outdated coach.
After revealing Steven Krueger’s Coach Ben has been completely depressing whereas surviving an anti-glamping existence for the reason that cabin burned down in Season 2’s finale, Yellowjackets put him by an intense Wilderness-influenced trial that didn’t precisely persuade everybody he was in charge for destroying their lodging. And in “Thanksgiving (Canada),” Natalie was satisfied to finish his struggling, regardless of believing him to be harmless, and regardless of others believing him to be the important thing to getting rescued.
However I not imagine that Coach is the one who set the fires, and although his psychological schools have been clearly frayed, he by no means actually misplaced maintain of his logic and empathy. So what if another person within the group was answerable for the hearth? Somebody who, as an example, has been emotionally erratic, unpredictable, and really a lot responsible of different misdeeds and untruths? The trauma-drenched Travis is the one remaining male left within the group, and he is actually beginning to match into the villain mildew.
Travis Hasn’t Ever Actually Been A “Good Man,” So To Converse
From the bounce, it was clear that Travis wasn’t enthused about happening the journey along with his dad and the soccer group, and his habits within the days instantly following the crash have been impulsively impolite, judgmental and with out empathy, significantly when it got here to his mourning brother Javi. Travis’ anger over the juvenile nickname “Flex” did not assist.
His early bond with Natalie was shattered partly every time he backout out of getting intercourse along with her, solely to quickly get caught getting rowdy with Jackie. That illicit act (itself influenced by Lottie drugging the group) led to Travis practically getting raped and/or killed, and was additionally the catalyst for occasions that led to the ousted Jackie freezing to dying.
Do not get me flawed. I get that Jackie’s dying and cannibalized corpse seemingly fucked Travis up in newly dreadful ways in which have been solely compounded by Javi’s disappearance, and that there was seemingly no getting back from watching his brother undergo the identical destiny as Jackie, no matter who was in charge. But in Season 3, the Yellowjackets artistic group has continued to broaden Travis’ patterns of each experiencing and inflicting struggling.
Travis’ Lies About His Visions Sparked A Horrible Domino Impact
Because it goes with many components inside this sequence, Lottie has a excessive degree of affect the place Travis is anxious, and sometimes comes throughout as Yellowjackets‘ overarching antagonist. However in my thoughts, Lottie is at all times of the assumption that she helps others, even when she’s doing every little thing however, and her identified psychological points additionally complicate such blanketed distinctions.
So she’s definitely in charge for coercing Travis into repeatedly ingesting her psychoactive tincture, believing him to have a pure psychic reference to the encircling Wilderness. Nevertheless, it is Travis who selected to lie and sic Lottie on Akilah by claiming the Wilderness selected her. Positive, his preliminary makes an attempt to get Courtney Eaton’s character to again off didnt’ work, however probably dooming all the group ought to have been the “Break Glass For Emergency” possibility.
Whereas it is definitely believable that Akilah is experiencing real premonitions, she’s seemingly seeing distorted variations that do not essentially replicate actuality. Which, if true, implies that the aftermath of Coach’s trial — from the unsuccessful firing squad to Shauna slicing his tendon to ravenous himself close to his rotting meals — was all for nothing, and his struggling ought to have ended far earlier.
And if this cycle of chaos continues unbroken, I can solely think about that Akilah will turn out to be one of many subsequent Yellowjackets characters to die, and in a means the place Travis might be unable to flee feeling answerable for his doom-causing actions. He is already had a number of probabilities to return clear, and made a imprecise try at dissuading Lottie’s religion in Akilah in the course of the newest episode, however all whereas falling wanting telling the reality. That is villain habits, individuals!
I Suppose Travis Burned The Cabin Down
Whereas there could very effectively be some type of proof that proves it not possible for Travis to have been answerable for setting fireplace to the group’s lone cabin abode, I do not assume it is such an outlandish idea. His face has shone with guilt ever since Season 3 began, and thus originated earlier than Lottie’s hallucinatory remedy periods. Positive, he may nonetheless simply be harboring foul emotions from having ingested his brother’s coronary heart, however…
I believe after Travis resorted to that horrifying habits, the identical a part of his mind that was beforehand infected with rage over Javi’s dying utterly snapped, and his vengeful impulses took over, probably with out him being utterly conscious of what was taking place. We have seen it occur with Taissa, each in her youth and as a grown girl, and whereas that appears fully tethered to her being haunted by No-Eyes Man, perhaps it is simply the wiles of the Wilderness at play.
I do not imagine Travis would have ever resorted to such damaging actions earlier than Javi’s dying, even after the heartbreaking discovery that Natalie lied in regards to the garments she discovered. As a result of I believe he actually felt answerable for his little brother’s security, regardless of being a douchebag within the rapid aftermath of the crash. However as soon as Javi was lifeless and not a viable goal for familial doting, Travis misplaced the one factor nonetheless connecting him to his pre-Wilderness life.
I believe making an attempt to homicide a bunch of youngsters, even when the try was unsuccessful, is sufficient extra baggage on high of every little thing else Travis has suffered that will assist drive a lifetime of trauma, guilt, and substance abuse.
Clearly, a number of fucked up moments are but to return as Yellowjackets fills out each of its mystery-driven timelines, and I can solely think about how closely the 2 shock arrivals (as portrayed by Nelson Franklin and Ashley Sutton) will issue into it. However I simply assume viewers ought to be reminded that for all of the villainy that Shauna and Misty show at instances, Travis may essentially the most harmful antagonist of both timeline, even when he does not imply to be.
Or perhaps these new arrivals are TV producers who reveal that the teenagers are simply a part of a long-form actuality tv experiement. That will be…one thing.
Yellowjackets streams new episodes on Fridays by way of Paramount+, and airs Sunday nights on Showtime at 8:00 p.m. ET.