From brutal deaths to supernatural occurrences, this survival thriller keeps viewers on the edge of their seats. Join us as we explore the most jaw-dropping moments that defined this series. Warning: major spoilers ahead as we dive into cannibalism, sacrifice, and the darkness that lurks in the wilderness.
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00:00Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most twisty and twisted
00:13developments on Showtime's sensational survival thriller, Yellow Jackets. There will be plenty
00:18of spoilers to Stomach Ahead. Number 20. It's Kelly Now. One of the biggest mysteries going into
00:33Season 3 was who Hilary Swank plays in the present timeline. Another major mystery develops when an
00:39anonymous blackmailer sends the Yellow Jackets an incriminating tape.
00:48The only people that even know about this are either us or dead. Both questions are answered
00:55when Shauna tracks down the blackmailer, who is none other than fellow Yellow Jacket and
00:59wilderness fling Melissa. After returning to civilization, she faked her death and built
01:04a happy life as Kelly with the daughter of the woman who found the Yellow Jackets.
01:08And I swear I tried not to let it happen, but you don't know her. She's relentless and funny and kind.
01:18We love each other. She still holds her own in a confrontation with Shauna until the intruder
01:25bites off a chunk of Melissa's arm to force feed it to her. Even after 25 years, some exes just bring
01:31out the worst in us. You really are insane. Number 19. Lottie and the Bear. The chaos of Doomcoming
01:38raises questions about Lottie's leadership, but there's no time to discuss them when a bear wanders up to
01:44the cabin. Lottie steps up with a knife, only for the predator to inexplicably submit to execution.
01:56This provides food for the group, with Lottie saving the heart as a totem for cult rituals.
02:01Some of the girls are now convinced that she truly has a mystical connection to nature.
02:05Some fans, however, theorize that the bear was so docile due to illness. Eating this meat could
02:20account for some of the Yellow Jackets' disturbing actions in the subsequent season. All the same,
02:25the slaying calmly yet disquietingly sets Lottie at the head of the food chain.
02:30Number 18. Dine and Dash. Older Thaisa and Van have dinner at an upscale
02:35restaurant as a reprieve from the latter's cancer treatment, among other recent tragedies.
02:39The couple ultimately decides to liven up the night by running out on the check.
02:43Ma'am.
02:44Ty, it's waiter.
02:45What?
02:47Excuse me.
02:48He's in pursuit.
02:50Hello?
02:50When a waiter pursues them into the street, the shock of nearly getting hit by a bus causes
02:55him to have a fatal heart attack. So much for the audience's reprieve from tragedy.
03:00After Van receives news that her supposedly terminal cancer is regressing,
03:04Ty speculates that this man was sacrificed by a spiritual force.
03:08The waiter was a sacrifice and your new prognosis is that, well, that's a gift.
03:17Her remorseful mistress reluctantly supports this idea, but is unprepared for the dark
03:22lengths they may have to go for her survival.
03:24Number 17. The Baby Didn't Make It.
03:27Shauna isn't out of the woods yet after she gives birth to a baby boy.
03:30She spends the episode struggling to calm the newborn and protect him from her cannibal
03:35cabin mates. The image of her failure to save him from becoming dinner is horrifying enough,
03:41but it turns out it was all a dream, including the baby's initial survival.
03:45Shauna awakens from her long slumber to the devastating news that he was actually stillborn.
03:50Where is he? I'm sorry, Shauna. I'm sorry.
03:56You didn't make it, Shauna.
03:59It's not exactly a surprise that the boy won't be coming home with the gang.
04:02Still, his fate is so heartbreaking and the would-be mother's hallucinations so disturbing
04:07as to even leave the audience traumatized. The event may also mark the true beginning of
04:12Shauna's descent into madness.
04:14Number 16. Seance.
04:16What a 90s way for teenage girls to cope with being stranded in the woods.
04:20And what a way to discover that someone has run out of meds for schizophrenia.
04:24As Jackie leads a seance to appease those who believe their cabin to be haunted,
04:28a window suddenly blows open.
04:30Lottie begins to panic and frantically mutter in French.
04:33Lottie, knock it off. This isn't a game.
04:35She then slams her face against the window,
04:45which snaps her out of the fugue state and leaves her with permanent scars.
04:49Thus begins the schism among Yellow Jackets and viewers
04:52over whether Lottie is disturbed by bizarre natural phenomena
04:55or connected with something mystical.
04:57One thing is certain.
04:58The spirits were not confirming for Misty that her feelings for Coach Ben are mutual.
05:03I need to know the truth. Does the person I like, like me back?
05:09Number 15. Silencing Crystal.
05:12Teen Misty finds a kindred spirit in Kristen,
05:14who is herself so desperate to be liked that she lets everyone think her name is Crystal.
05:19My name isn't Crystal.
05:22It's Kristen.
05:24Everyone got it wrong on the first day of practice and I never corrected them.
05:27That's nothing compared to Misty destroying the plane's emergency transmitter
05:31after the Yellow Jackets showed appreciation for her survival skills.
05:34When she confides this in Kristen during a stroll around a cliff,
05:37there's only one way to talk her out of plans to tell the rest of the girls.
05:41Crystal?
05:46You're the reason we never got rescued?
05:49Misty aggressively threatens her friend
05:51until Kristen accidentally slips off the cliff to her death.
05:54But was it really an accident?
05:57Misty's mentality is a mystery even to herself.
06:00With this new dark secret, though,
06:02her edgier eccentric behavior is no longer endearing.
06:06I'm sorry, Misty.
06:08Number 14. Laura Lee Takes Off.
06:11After studying the manual of a private plane abandoned in the woods,
06:14Laura Lee goes to find help.
06:16I've been studying the flight manual for weeks.
06:18And I checked the gas tank. It's full.
06:20I used to watch my grandpa fly.
06:22He even let me steer a few times.
06:23I know that I can do this.
06:24It's a bit too early in the show for audiences
06:26to share the Yellow Jackets' optimism for this mission.
06:29Indeed, Laura Lee doesn't even clear the lake
06:32before her teddy bear Leonard spontaneously combusts.
06:35The fire quickly spreads throughout the plane,
06:37causing it to explode.
06:39Lottie collapses in horror as she watches her friend
06:42become the first casualty since the previous plane crash.
06:45Everyone else is baffled by their hope for escape
06:47literally going up in flames.
06:49Did a mechanical issue in the old contraption ignite Leonard?
06:52Or did something not want the Yellow Jackets saved quite yet?
06:56Either way, fate sadly had different plans for Laura Lee.
06:59Thanks for worrying about me, Coach, but this is my purpose.
07:05Number 13. The Banquet.
07:06The Yellow Jackets try to grant Jackie the dignity of a funeral pyre
07:10after she freezes to death.
07:12However, a sheet of snow extinguishes it just as she's perfectly cooked.
07:16Whether moved by fate or driven mad by hunger,
07:19her friends feed on the corpse in a frenzy.
07:33She wants us to.
07:35The only thing running through their minds
07:36is the hallucination of a regal ancient Greek banquet,
07:39an homage to the eating of flesh in Dionysian lore.
07:42While Jackie was expected to be the first cannibal feast,
07:45it's a more surreal ceremony than expected.
07:48The Yellow Jackets come to regret this twisted act of desperation.
07:52Something ate her. How can we not?
07:53Lisa!
07:56We ate her.
07:58Still, between their delusional consecration
08:00and Coach Ben's shock at the reality,
08:02it's clear that nobody is in control in this nightmare.
08:05Number 12. The Aftermath.
08:08The story begins with a high school soccer team's plane crash
08:11en route to a national tournament.
08:12The nightmare really begins after the crash.
08:15Misty wakes up to find several passengers
08:17gruesomely killed in their seats
08:19and another burning alive.
08:21The handful of survivors burst out of the plane's emergency door
08:24to more carnage and mutilation in the woods.
08:27This includes Coach Ben Scott,
08:29who faints when the girls free him from a bulkhead
08:31to find his right leg completely crushed.
08:33Please, there's nothing we could do!
08:36Jesus!
08:37Coach!
08:38In five minutes, Yellow Jackets redefines the spectacle
08:41of a plane crash sequence with grotesque graphicness.
08:44It's the first testament to the show's ability
08:47to subvert expectations even with the shocks we see coming.
08:50It won't be the last.
08:51Holy macaroni!
08:53Is that him?
08:54He's gotta be dead, right?
08:57Don't look, don't look.
08:58Number 11. Wolf Attack.
09:00A pack of wolves spoils a long overdue quiet night for the teens.
09:04Oh, where's that?
09:05Take it!
09:06Don't look!
09:06It's over there!
09:07Go!
09:07Taisa harshly thrashes one of the beasts to protect Van,
09:15but is too late to save her face from being horribly mauled.
09:18It's not until the funeral pyre
09:19when the group realizes Van survived the attack.
09:22Don't really...
09:25fire...
09:27The jarring incident affirms
09:30how the most gruesome moments in the wilderness
09:32can happen at any time.
09:34For good measure, though,
09:35we get to see Akilah sew up Van's face
09:37without proper equipment or anesthesia.
09:39The bigger controversy was over how neat the scars ended up being.
09:43Though such clean facial reconstruction suggests
09:45that the injury was so extreme merely for shock value,
09:48you can't argue with the results of either.
09:51Number 10.
09:52Shauna's Physical Therapy.
09:53The distraught Shauna insists that Lottie was responsible for her son's death.
09:57Recognizing this pain as a liability,
10:00Lottie allows Shauna to pummel her.
10:02But nobody anticipated her sacrifice to be so brutal.
10:05Shauna.
10:07I know there's a lot of pain right now, but let it out.
10:13Shauna, we need you.
10:15Let it out.
10:15Intercuts of the older Yellow Jackets dancing to Live's lightning crashes
10:20cleverly convey their underlying tension in the future.
10:23Teen Lottie is ultimately left lying half-dead
10:25and spends the rest of Season 2 recovering.
10:28The production team delivers on the grisly visual,
10:31but the visceral acting gives it real impact.
10:34Courtney Eaton and Sophie Nellis,
10:35who are really best friends,
10:37said this scene was one of the most fun to shoot.
10:39But the final sequence is a heavy blow to both the audience
10:43and Shauna's sympathetic characterization.
10:45Shauna needs to take out her rage on someone
10:48and Lottie, in a sort of messiah-like way,
10:50decides to submit to that rage.
10:55Coach Ben has finally had it with the girls
10:57by the end of a savage second season.
10:59You don't have to stay here.
11:00You're not like the rest of these girls.
11:03Actually, I'm worse.
11:04How can you say that?
11:05I let him die in my place.
11:07Would he really leave them with this parting gift, though?
11:10The Yellow Jackets wake up one night
11:12to find their cabin set ablaze
11:13and the door sealed shut.
11:15They all manage to escape into the frozen woods,
11:17where they watch in disbelief
11:19as their only shelter burns to the ground.
11:21Whoever set the fire
11:22becomes the leading mystery of Season 3,
11:25though Shauna's certainty that it was Ben
11:26will seal his fate
11:28when they eventually reunite with him.
11:29The trial's over, Shauna.
11:31He set the only shelter we had on fire
11:34with us inside of it.
11:36This even more savage season ends
11:39without identifying the person truly responsible
11:41for one of the Yellow Jacket's
11:42most divisive tragedies.
11:44Number 8.
11:45Shauna confronts Adam.
11:47Shauna heads to Adam Martin's apartment
11:49on suspicion that he's the Yellow Jacket's
11:51first blackmailer.
11:52He desperately insists that he didn't research her
11:54until after they began their affair.
11:56Okay, yes, I googled you, okay?
11:58And I saw that you in that plane crash,
12:00and I was curious.
12:00Bullshit.
12:01No, it's not.
12:03You obviously went through something really messed up.
12:06And I wanted to understand.
12:07His panic prompts Shauna to grab a kitchen knife
12:09before flashbacks to her trauma in the wilderness
12:11compel her to fatally stab him.
12:14The Yellow Jacket's bloody trouble
12:15is no longer just in the past.
12:17Before they dispose of Adam's body
12:19with disturbing thoroughness,
12:21further evidence implicates Shauna's husband Jeff
12:23as the blackmailer.
12:24He ultimately confesses to trying to extort
12:26the other survivors in order to pay off loan sharks.
12:29I thought Thaisa, you know,
12:33maybe Natalie had the cash.
12:37So, I mean, I was gonna lose the store, Shauna.
12:40The Sadekis are in some serious trouble,
12:43but Adam's death by impulse
12:44sets up Shauna herself as the greatest danger.
12:47Number seven, Thaisa's altar.
12:49It doesn't look like Thaisa is much of a dog person.
12:52She otherwise seems to be the most well-adjusted
12:55Yellow Jacket in the future,
12:56despite some family dysfunction.
12:57It's not until her election to the New Jersey Senate
13:07that we discover her darkest secret
13:08alongside her wife, Simone.
13:10She's wandering the house
13:11when she discovers an altar hidden in the basement.
13:14At the center are a heart
13:15and a severed head of the missing family dog, Biscuit.
13:18It turns out,
13:19Thaisa has been continuing the dark rituals
13:21of her youth during blackouts.
13:22Her alter ego, dubbed Other Thais,
13:24by Tani Cypress and Jasmine Savoy-Brown,
13:26will destroy her marriage and political career.
13:29Her bloody altar asserts
13:31that this is the least of her worries.
13:33If you don't step down from office
13:35and seek treatment for whatever this is
13:36that is happening to you,
13:37I will have no choice but to go to the press.
13:40Do you understand that?
13:41Jesus.
13:42Number six, Javi falls through the ice.
13:44Burn it out so the ice doesn't breathe.
13:46What?
13:49Stay by you.
13:50Some believe a higher power is at play
13:57when Javi turns up alive and arguably well.
13:59This ends up being a tragic gift
14:01when Natalie is set to be sacrificed for food.
14:04The Martinez brothers intervene,
14:05triggering a chase that ends with Javi
14:07breaking through the frozen lake.
14:09The girls allow the young boy
14:10to freeze to death to spare Nat.
14:12They tell Travis that nothing could be done,
14:15then support him through the unthinkable act
14:17of eating his own little brother.
14:18Actor Kevin Alves said that this controversial scene
14:21was especially difficult to film.
14:23The hardest scene I've had to shoot on this show.
14:25I think so.
14:26Like, it was tough because, you know,
14:28you can't really be truthful to that scene
14:30without at least thinking about Luciano,
14:32who's like my favorite person.
14:33Like, he's the best kid ever.
14:34The Yellow Jackets can justify Javi's death
14:37as the wilderness's choice,
14:38but their refusal to stop it
14:40marks a breaking point in the ethics of survival.
14:43Number five, The Discovery.
14:45The timing couldn't be worse
14:46for outsiders to discover the Yellow Jacket.
14:48They had just mercy-killed Coach Ben
14:51and were eating him,
14:52not for survival, but for ritual.
14:54Lottie felt validated
14:55by seemingly supernatural screeching in the woods.
14:58But this was actually the collective mating call
15:00of a rare frog species
15:01being studied by Edwin and Hannah.
15:07As hard as it is to explain Ben's severed head,
15:10Lottie doesn't bother.
15:11She immediately kills Edwin with an axe,
15:13then proceeds to eat and paint her face with his brain.
15:16At the end of the chaotic chase,
15:18the cannibals' chance at rescue
15:20hangs on terrified hostages
15:21and the now completely feral Lottie.
15:24Only by blackmail 25 years later
15:26do they learn that this bloodbath
15:27was captured on tape.
15:29Number four, The Girls Go Wild.
15:41The stranded Yellow Jackets make peace
15:42with their hopeless situation
15:43by holding their own homecoming,
15:45or doomcoming.
15:46If we have booze, let's have a party.
15:48Yeah, because we've got so much to celebrate.
15:51Do we need a reason?
15:52We're going to be dead in a few weeks.
15:54There's a full moon tomorrow night.
15:56And it's almost homecoming.
15:57The festivities are actually pretty uplifting,
16:00until the partiers realize
16:01that the mushrooms they've been consuming
16:03are hallucinogenic.
16:04The ensuing frenzy leads to some steamy fun
16:07with Travis in the cabin,
16:08then a harrowing hunt through the woods.
16:10The girls are hallucinating that he's a stag
16:12under the influence of a Lottie under the influence.
16:15Travis gets lucky after all
16:17when the sober Nat and Jackie
16:18interrupt the sacrifice ritual.
16:20Still, the incident, much discussed among fans,
16:23will forever corrupt the Yellow Jackets' trust in each other.
16:25It also declares the danger
16:28in Lottie's unstable leadership
16:29over a community of fragile psyches.
16:32It's in all of us, you know.
16:34Even him, even you.
16:36Number 3.
16:37Shawna's Rise and Nat's Escape
16:39Natalie, please, do the honors.
16:47Season 3's past storyline centers on the power struggle
16:50between antler queen Natalie
16:51and the increasingly unhinged Shawna.
16:53It's actually Lottie who formally splits the Yellow Jackets
16:57by refusing to follow Hannah Finch back to civilization.
17:00But after Mari Ibarra is sadly confirmed
17:02as the so-called pit girl from the series' opening scene,
17:05Shawna asserts her authority with a ruthless ritual feast.
17:09The wilderness has made its choice clear.
17:14Prepare her for tonight.
17:16While a more tyrannical antler queen is crowned,
17:19Nat manages to escape to a mountaintop
17:21with Hannah's repaired satellite phone.
17:22The season closes with an act of rebellion
17:25to thrillingly set up all-out war
17:27between the two leaders and their supporters.
17:30As Nat manages to contact someone,
17:32it looks like they're gonna have some company.
17:34Can you hear me?
17:35Hello?
17:37Can anyone hear me?
17:41I can hear you.
17:43Number 2.
17:44Lottie's Downfall
17:45Adult Lottie, Shawna, Ty, and Van
17:48all have shady business in New York at the same time.
17:50Back home, Misty is on the Citizen Detective Forum
17:53when Walter texts her a message of condolence.
17:56It is then that she finds a photo of Lottie lying lifeless
17:59at the bottom of a staircase.
18:01It happened yesterday.
18:02I confirmed it myself at the morgue.
18:06This image poetically parallels the baptismal vision
18:08that marked her mystical epiphany in the wilderness.
18:11Nonetheless, many found the sudden demise
18:13of this fan-favorite character
18:14to be a crass waste of narrative potential.
18:17Such controversy declined with the escalating mystery
18:20over which Yellowjacket settled her beef
18:22with the dangerous Lottie.
18:23I just received the DNA results
18:25for a strand of hair I took from Shawna.
18:27It matches what you found under Lottie's nails.
18:30What about my hair?
18:33It looks like Shawna is Lottie's killer.
18:36In fact, it was Callie Sadecki
18:38who impulsively did the deed
18:39while confronting Lottie about her mother's dark past.
18:42You're just like her
18:44but more.
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19:14Number 1.
19:15Nat takes the shot.
19:17The adult Yellowjackets prepare to hunt
19:19when Lisa arrives to stop them.
19:21They seem to have found their sacrifice
19:23as Misty reveals a syringe
19:25with a lethal dose of phenobarbital.
19:27But when she goes in for the kill,
19:29Natalie jumps in front of Lisa.
19:31It would be the most polarizing death
19:33in a drama that epitomizes
19:35the trope of no one is safe.
19:36What do we do?
19:39Nothing.
19:41It's too late to me.
19:48Of course,
19:48the traumatized Nat
19:50hallucinating her younger self
19:51on the plane
19:51confirms that this was
19:53a long time coming.
19:54Misty ultimately being
19:55her best friend's killer
19:56leaves her devastated
19:57and the Yellowjackets
19:58divided going into season 3.
20:00Walter,
20:01I killed my best friend.
20:04Whatever the audience's own opinion
20:10on how Nat's demise was handled,
20:12it impacted the show
20:13as much as any of its relentless twists.
20:16What other Yellowjackets moments
20:18dropped your jaw
20:19and turned your stomach?
20:20Howl it up in the comments.
20:21I can't believe you thought
20:23I was going to book club
20:24this whole time.
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20:26There's no book club?
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