SPOILERS are forward for the Yellowjackets Season 3 finale, which dropped on the 2025 TV schedule this previous Friday!
Nicely… one other season of Yellowjackets is over, and I’m beginning to really feel as traumatized as the highschool soccer team-turned-cannibals, given current occasions. The ultimate episode of Season 3 supplied up solutions to numerous the largest questions we’ve had about Yellowjackets, like the identification of pit woman and the (actual) antler queen. Nonetheless, I simply can’t transfer previous one demise (of many this season) that simply doesn’t sit proper with me.
Why The Heck Did Yellowjackets Kill Off Candy Van?
As if it wasn’t sufficient to go away us hanging with Van’s most cancers prognosis all season lengthy, in the course of the ninth episode, I used to be completely gutted when the sequence minimize the character’s life brief by having Hilary Swank’s Melissa kill her. I don’t know. The entire thing simply felt pointless to me, even when it would hold the gears turning when it comes to Taissa’s darkish aspect actually popping out extra typically.
Lauren Ambrose’s remaining moments as Van whereas sitting within the present’s everlasting airplane mirrored my emotions about the entire thing. Why did she need to die so quickly?
My factor is there are such a lot of brutal parts Yellowjackets is juggling, like, you understand, literal cannibalism? So, we want some good to maintain transferring ahead, and Van offered that in numerous methods.
One factor that stored me going this season was seeing Tai and Van rekindle their romance within the current day. Now I completely perceive what Tawny Cypress meant when she advised me in the course of the Los Angeles press day that she and Ambrose “actually relished” in telling the story, as a result of, because it seems, it was meant to be short-lived.
I am Operating Out Of Characters To Root For On Yellowjackets
Additionally, I must remind you that Van’s demise was on high of maybe a file variety of deaths this season.
After the Season 2 finale had us saying goodbye to Juliette Lewis’s Natalie, we’ve since misplaced grownup Lottie within the current day and Coach Ben and Mari (aka pit woman) within the wilderness within the final season. Who do I’ve left to latch on to anymore? My listing of consolation characters to assist me get by this twisted sequence is actually getting too small now that Van is out of the image (within the current day, anyway).
At this level, it’s principally me desirous to see how Sophie Thatcher’s Natalie finds assist and manages to get out (and persuade her culty teammates to go away along with her) and for Christina Ricci’s grownup Misty and Elijah Wooden’s Walter to unravel extra Yellowjackets mysteries once more. Oh, and if Shauna’s husband Jeff dies subsequent, I’m straight up rioting within the streets.
I do know what I signed up for. Yellowjackets has been a reasonably f-ed up sequence because the begin, however Melissa killing Van simply did not transfer the needle sufficient for me to seek out the heartbreak justified. It felt like extra of a field to tick with a purpose to put extra chaos in movement between Tai, Shauna and Melissa.
Nonetheless, I nonetheless wish to understand how the story goes on from right here, so you understand I will be tuning in for extra if Season 4 occurs.