I admittedly don’t throw TV reveals on within the background absent-mindedly as a lot as I used to, however I’ll embrace any motive to return to Yellowjackets’ buffet of darkly comedic horror. Lo, the Wilderness gives! Or, for correct credit score’s sake, it’s a Netflix subscription that gives right here, with Season 2 touchdown on the streaming large to supply a snow-blanketed escape for everybody struggling the depressing warmth. Amidst the standard glee, although, was my reignited confusion about Crystal’s ultimate resting place, so to talk.
Season 3 provided up a quick reference to Crystal, which I’d thought on the time is perhaps a sign that solutions had been coming. Once I talked to director Ben Semanoff for his standout penultimate episode “How the Story Ends,” I made certain to inquire about it, since he additionally directed Season 2’s “Two Truths and a Lie.” Now looks like nearly as good a time as ever to revisit his quotes concerning the thriller.
The Thriller: What Occurred To Crystal’s Physique?
Nuha Jes Izman’s Crystal (actual title: Kristen) got here actually out of nowhere in Season 2, having not appeared within the first season in any respect. Her love of musical theater may have sparked a pleasant manufacturing from the survivors, however the character wasn’t fated for such glory. As a substitute, her ultimate act moments had been spent dumping poop, studying that Misty broke the radio transmitter, and by accident strolling backwards off a cliff.
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Each in shock and heartbroken over how shortly her pal turned in opposition to her, Misty was in a position to shortly find the frost-covered physique on the backside. Crystal’s vacant stare and bloodied face made it clear that she was lifeless, too, not that it is stopped some followers from theorizing that her demise wasn’t in any other case absolutely confirmed in that second.
Misty tried to seek out and conceal that very same physique two episodes later, in “Burial,” as her fellow survivors searched different elements of the forest. However as a substitute of rediscovering it instantly, she could not discover it in any respect. She did stability her karma considerably by threat-talking Coach Ben down from a suicidal second, though one may argue that his demise that day may have saved the kids from a lot of struggling down the road. In any case, nobody ever discovered the reality behind Crystal’s demise, and her physique by no means resurfaced.
What Yellowjackets’ Director Ben Semanoff Informed Us
Director Ben Semanoff, who additionally directed the group feasting on Jackie in Season 2’s “Edible Advanced,” was a delight to speak to a couple of twist as horrifying as Melissa stabbing Van to demise. We all know precisely what occurred to Van’s physique, although, with Tai burying her lover after consuming her coronary heart. No such conclusion for Crystal, although, and once I requested Semanoff if there have been ever any plans or conversations about resolving that thriller, he advised me:
No, I do not recall a comply with up ever deliberate. There’s a reference to her on this season throughout the trial. I feel Misty says, ‘Effectively, I imply, who is aware of? It may have been Crystal who burned the home.’ I feel it is what she says, or one thing to that impact; I do recall her being referenced. However I am making an attempt to suppose if there was ever any storyline the place they had been going to return and discover her, and no.
On the one hand, I am shocked to listen to that, since I am unable to consider an important motive to indicate MIsty being unable to seek out Crystal’s physique in “Burial” if the purpose wasn’t to go in an sudden path at a later level. Had Misty not tried to seek out the corpse, and the remainder of that episode’s occasions performed out as depicted, I would haven’t any points. In any other case, what is the payoff?
Alternatively, nevertheless, I am undecided that there is a reveal for that thriller that may each make sense and add a twist to something. Until it instantly begins making sense for the Wilderness to convey the lifeless again to life willy nilly.
Ben Semanoff continued, saying his takeaway of it was that she was inevitably buried within the snow, although even he was unclear within the second of how issues shook out, since he wasn’t behind the digital camera for “Burial.”
I feel the the story ended. Misty thought she bought away with it, and the snow coated her. After which she did not, proper? I am making an attempt to recollect — God, the mythology of it — if someone discovered her up there. Was it Ben? I feel it was Ben. Perhaps, anyway.
I absolutely consider the director was referring to Misty and Ben’s scene atop the cliff, nevertheless it’s actually attention-grabbing to contemplate the opportunity of Ben discovering Crystal’s physique sooner or later afterward and never telling anybody about it in order that she would not get eaten like different victims. I would nearly like for that to be true, even, since he would have much more of a motive to burn the cabin down with Misty inside.
Alas, that thriller surrounding Crystal’s physique is probably going by no means to be resolved fully, although I do not suppose it will actually change something too closely even when we did study that she was dragged away by wild animals or that Misty was simply trying within the fallacious spot. But when there was a juicier reply, I would be right here for that.
Fortunately, there are many different mysteries that may get addressed inYellowjackets Season 4. We simply have to truly survive lengthy sufficient for it to get right here.