Yellowjackets Great Season 3. Death is fans lively

Warning: This article contains massive spoilers for “yellow jackets”.

On the latest “yellow yacing” teenager – stuck in the desert and in the 1990s – There was a trial of coach Ben (Steven Kruegers)accused of their cabin torch last season. On the 2021 time scale, Melania Lynskey was once again haunted by late Jackie (Ella Purnell), while it (Tawny Cypress) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) checked whether the desert was hungry for another life trade.

All in all, the past story (as usual) seemed to be higher rates – until the episodes at the closing moments, when the fog (Christina Ricci) sees the latest news on the board of its citizen’s detective reports. Lottie (Simone Kessell) is dead while lying at the bottom of the staircase. Just to convince all the doubts, the camera is late on her still to show, yes, she’s really dead.

This twist has gained all the Yellowjackets hives, and not because they sing its praise. “It seems to me that they want to make bold moves, but the killing of Lottie is pretty early in the season … dumb?” single X user wroteOthers have said everything from crying, criticizing writing and even giving up the show. Kessell himself, Talking to VarietyNor did it seem too confident about the decision and were just called “premature” death.

“I was quite broken because I thought it was over when I felt the Lottie came in. I was excited that Season 3 would take him somewhere interesting, and unfortunately they just decided that the story was gone.”

As Kesel notes, Lottie’s death will definitely encourage investigating and the list of suspects is long: It, Sad, Walter, mysterious stalker and maybe more. But when trying to make the story works, Yellowjackets have shot himself in the leg.

After the Yellowjackets 1, Season 1 is felt that the writers are not quite caught with the Lottie character. “The end of” 12 angry girls and 1 drunk travis “is the end of its stumbling block.

The first Yellowjackets season Lottie (Courtney Eaton) was set as a villain. From the outset, we knew that the story of the past would eventually see yellow jacket practices not only for survival cannibalism, but also neopaganism, hunting apart as animals and blood victims. The mentally ill Lottie (who had ended with her medication) was the first to show that the desert herself had the will and the premiere offered by it. The girls, desperately after the instructions, caught her as a driver. It is no surprise that many are attracted to Lottie as the possible “Antler Queen”.

“Yellowjackets” 1st season finals “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi” ended Natalia (Juliet Lewis) has been kidnapped by baptists. Their manager? Unseen but still lively Lottie who had also emptied the accounts of Late Travis (Andres Soto). The very last scene returned to the desert, where the teenage lottery placed a bear’s heart on the altar, praying to her forest God: “Discard blood my beautiful friends and allowed the darkness to release us.” OminousIn the area

During the season 2, everyone waited for Lottie’s re -introduction to enhance the horror of the 2021 time scale. Did she still practice brutal blood rituals that yellow jackets dreamed of in the desert? Was she murdered Travis? How did she bring others into her cult? How far did her reach spread?

Season 2, the Yellowjackets did not meet these terrible expectations. Writers obviously decided to turn and wrote Lottie as a surprisingly sympathetic characterIn the area, she was not a cult leader in itself, more eccentric well -being gurus with good intentions. Travis’ death was a fictional accident. Even in the previous storyline, Lottie’s hero changed; Suddenly she wasn’t leading The girls in the dark, her followers misinterpreted her message and dragged her with her.

Even when watching the Yellowjackets 1st season, Lottie no longer feels so scary, and this season’s original tension is emptied. I have read speculation that writers retreated to the evil Lottie because they realized that her illness would be equated with evil – but if so, they first didn’t have to write her like a sick person.

Lottie’s death feels particularly disturbing because the show only made a similar mistake of killing Natalia in the Season 2 final “Storytelling”. It ended the show’s second -year student season on many acidic note, and Lottie’s death is refreshing this bitter taste. There have been rumors that Natalia’s premature death was because Juliet Lewis wanted to leave the series; Lewis himself has not clearly confirmed it but She has said about “yellowjackets” leaving “ “I think I’m good for the series for two seasons.” But even if it be The thing with Lewis, it wasn’t here! Simone Kessell thinks there are more stories to tell with Lottie and she is right.

Back “Storytelling”, Lottie was fascinated with Shaun’s daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardin). Lotia, which was once again a zealous faith in the desert, seemed to want to indoctrine Callie, if not even worse. Well, this story has become a pop -up balloon, without resolution or catharsis. The previous storyline also seems to return to the most threatening Lottie from season 1, so removing them from the table on an adult time scale is now a mysterious decision.

Overall, the Yellowjackets’ storyline of 2021 in season 3 feels like trying to recover season 1 spark and therefore falls back to the old scene. Someone who knows the secrets of yellow jackets is back in the shade. Travis’ death was the secret of driving in season 1, now Lottie’s death will be one of the 3rd season.

I have been harsh during this article so I emphasize that I am mainly I liked the Yellowjackets Season 3. But unfortunately, the removal of Lottie adds a huge star to this pleasure.

The Yellowjackets stream Paramount+ with Showtime.