10 urgent fan theories for ‘Yellowjackets’ on Showtime

In the event you’ve spent the previous few weeks (or days, or hours) catching up on Showtime’s harrowing and addictive Yellowjackets, your thoughts might be buzzing with questions main as much as the Jan. 16 finale.

Because the groundbreaking first season involves an in depth, a handful of Yellowjackets theories are gaining momentum, and we’d like at the least just a few solutions earlier than the lengthy watch for Season 2.

Listed here are our favourite Yellowjackets Season 1 questions and theories.

1. Who’s the Antler Queen?

The obvious alternative thus far is Lottie, who stands ominously in entrance of the mounted antlers within the cabin and has hair lengthy sufficient to weave by means of the queen’s gown — but additionally, primarily based on hair alone it appears greater than possible that Lottie is the woman killed within the opening scene, and he or she has the bracelet to match. The queen’s gown might as simply be adorned with the hair of her victims. We all know it is not Misty, and different women in these pictures seem like Tai, Van, and probably Mari. This factors to primarily Jackie or Shauna as our flesh-eating chief, and we will not wait to see what which means both manner. 

2. Jackie’s destiny

Yellowjackets would have us imagine that everybody apart from the 4 adults we all know both died or was murdered for dinner within the woods. That proved to be false  after we discovered that Travis made it out, and who’s to say he is the one one? 

It has been over 20 years because the aircraft crash, which is ample time for different survivors to have gone off the grid, severed ties with our core 4, or handed away for different causes. Eagle-eyed followers have observed that the diaries in Jackie’s dad and mom’ home reference films that got here out after the aircraft crash—and Yellowjackets has not been the kind of present so far to mess up particulars like that. We really feel snug assuming that Jackie left the woods, however died — or faked her dying — within the years since.

3. The primary sufferer

Goodbye, Coach Ben. You have been an actual one. Credit score: Showtime

Not that we’re all sitting on our couches in nauseous dread till we discover out the how and who of when the women begin consuming individuals — however we completely are. Our cash is on Coach Ben, if solely as a result of he is the one grownup within the room and rapidly dropping the ability he wielded over them in well mannered society. Between the women’ rising desperation and Misty’s personal harmful emotions towards him, Ben won’t be on this for the lengthy haul, and will quickly turn out to be the primary full meal the Yellowjackets have eaten in a while.

4. The French Canadian

Say what you’ll in regards to the skeleton within the attic, however let’s agree that it’s fully unchill. Yellowjackets hasn’t pored over this throughout the present itself, however for a physique to die and decompose up there, it needed to have been unable to flee. The attic exhibits no indicators of bloodshed or different damage, which implies the Canadian was held hostage — even likelier when you think about the disturbing undeniable fact that the skeleton is lacking fingers.

Somebody or one thing stopped this individual from leaving the woods, not solely within the aircraft however even so far as escaping the cabin and operating to the water. This individual was probably maimed by their captor (or a earlier damage) and ultimately killed or starved whereas sitting alone in a room. 

5. It/Them

Lottie can u simply clarify a little bit Credit score: Michael Courtney / SHOWTIME

Greater than as soon as because the crash, Lottie has referenced a mysterious pressure or forces, like a better energy working within the woods. When the women discover the aircraft, she says “They did not need him to go away,” and in the course of the seance she declares that “it needs us to spill blood.” Who or what’s she speaking about? Is it the forest itself? Is it one thing sinister and supernatural, like the person with out eyes, or one thing to do with Lottie’s personal mysterious presents? It is giving main “Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded” vitality from Misplaced, and that shit continues to be chilling after 17 years.

6. The person with no eyes

We do not even know the place to start with this aside from that the unique reveal is considered one of Yellowjackets‘ most harrowing scenes by far. Tai first glimpsed a ghostly pale male-presenting determine with bloody and empty eye sockets when she was visiting her sick grandmother. Within the years since, she continues to be haunted by this determine, together with as not too long ago as throughout a press convention outdoors her house. The person additionally seems within the woods in the course of the opening credit, and whereas credit scenes aren’t essentially a part of the present itself, this at the least signifies that the eyeless man, seen or unseen, has adopted Tai to Canada. And talking of the credit…

7. Thriller man within the credit

Vulture’s Roxana Hadadi identified an unfamiliar man within the opening credit who appears a little bit like Coach Ben however is clearly a unique individual. Is that this alleged to be the French Canadian? His Captor? This man appears threatening as heck so we might moderately not have him present as much as the home unannounced any time quickly.

8. Wilderness child

Shauna would possibly survive the woods, however at what price? Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / SHOWTIME

Clearly one of many greatest questions proper now’s what occurs to Shauna’s being pregnant. She selected to not terminate it herself, however that does not preclude her from any type of miscarriage or damage within the woods over the following few months. It is potential that she carries the newborn to time period after which the women cannot handle it — or worse, they get hungry.

9. Travis’ killer

Episode Eight could have revealed the id of the “asshole lined in glitter” who blackmailed the Yellowjackets, however we nonetheless do not definitively know that this individual killed Travis. The blackmailer and the assassin may very well be completely separate, both related to the Yellowjackets or outdoors forces aspiring to sabotage them. What kind of enemies would possibly Travis have made together with his personal deliberately obscured Yellowjackets connections? If Javi is not Adam, is he on the market someplace, in search of revenge on those that stole his childhood, beginning together with his personal flesh and blood? 

10. A chunk of the puzzle

In the event you love Yellowjackets and theorizing about it, it’s vital to maintain one factor in thoughts: We do not know the whole lot. This present opened with cannibalism, in order that’s most likely not the largest shock up its sleeve. The grownup Yellowjackets are tight-lipped about their time within the wilderness, and this season already confirmed us a prolonged checklist of horrors that precede the aforementioned menu choices. What else occurred on the market — and within the 20 years since they got here house? What secrets and techniques have these ladies terrified to speak however petrified to take motion?

We will not wait to search out out.

Yellowjackets airs Sundays at 10 p.m. EST on Showtime. Atone for previous episodes by way of Showtime Anytime or the Showtime extension on Hulu and Amazon.