Yellowjackets Season 3 Has Dropped: Is It Better Than Season 2? (Spoiler, No)
The mysteries remain unsolved and the pacing of the story shows no signs of picking up.
Debuting in 2021, Yellowjackets caught the attention of viewers and critics with its ambitious script and daring mix of genres. The writers developed two parallel storylines: one in the mid-1990s, the other in the present.
The story of survival in the past has become overgrown with mystical signs – mysterious signs on trees, strange clothes, sacrifices and obscure rituals.
In the present, adult survivors are constantly worried that everyone around them will find out about the horrors that happened in the Canadian woods, so they kill anyone who raises suspicion.
What Happens in Yellowjackets Season 3?
At the end of the second season, Coach Ben, who refused to eat human flesh and was horrified by the behavior of the brutal high school girls, set fire to the cabin where the girls lived.
In the new episodes, summer has arrived. Natalie has become a full-fledged leader of the community, and Lottie has become the high priestess of a bloody cult that demands sacrifice.
Shauna, who has lost her best friend and child, does not believe in miracles, but thinks that her teammates have simply gone crazy, far from civilization.
The girls have built sturdy huts out of branches, planted gardens, and raised rabbits and ducks. The small state seems to function normally. The football players want to take revenge on the coach, but Ben hides and plans to fight for their lives.
In the present, after Natalie's funeral and the sect's collapse, Lottie moves in with Shauna and Jeff. Misty, meanwhile, is trying to get rid of her persistent suitor, Walter. Nothing seems to be threatening, but tensions continue to rise as Shauna sees more and more of herself in her rebellious daughter Callie.
In Season 3, the Weak Connection Between Past and Present Is Even More Apparent
Already in the first season, Yellowjackets had a serious plot problem: two storylines develop at different speeds, and the connection between the 1990s and the 2020s seems strained.
Apart from the grown-up characters and a vague cult, past and present hardly intersect. In the second season, this is even more noticeable. Only through the sudden outbursts of Shauna's anger and Nat's sense of guilt could one say with certainty that something terrible really happened in the woods.
Unfortunately, the third season is not much different from the second. In the present, Shauna, Misty and Lottie are stuck in betrayal and lies, running around in circles.
Yellowjackets Remains Too Slow and Unwilling to Reveal Its Secrets
Yellowjackets is unlikely to lose fans who admired the first season – after all, they want to know the details of the mysterious cult, even if viewers already more or less understand the structure of the new religion.
Other mysteries are less interesting. The show suffers from the disease of many modern TV projects – unbearable slowness. The writers are not in a hurry to provide answers, and the tension drops.
At the beginning, the pace was too high, and now the narrative develops as if by inertia. We can only wish the fans of the series patience and strength to wait for the finale.