Shauna turned, her face a mask of animal confusion. “Jackie?”
In 1996, the survivors of the plane crash are struggling to come to terms with their new reality. The group, led by Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), Taissa (Tavi Gevinson), and Lottie (Courtney Eaton), are forced to confront the harsh realities of survival, including finding food, building shelter, and dealing with the psychological toll of their situation. As the days turn into weeks, the group's dynamics begin to shift, and tensions rise.
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So Jackie left. She walked out into the night, her thin cardigan no match for the October wind. She didn’t go far—just to the lean-to by the woodpile, where she sat and waited for someone to come get her. To apologize. To beg. Yellowjackets - Season 1- Episode 9
If you are watching Yellowjackets for the first time, Doomcoming is the episode where you realize this isn't a survival story. It's a horror story about what you become when you stop hoping for rescue. And it is, without a doubt, the best hour of television in the entire first season.
“Doomcoming” works as a season penultimate because it strips away every safety net. Up until this episode, the audience could rationalize the 1996 timeline as "survival mode." They hadn't actually eaten anyone yet. They hadn't actually murdered someone in cold blood.
But before the knife could descend, Jackie stumbled into the clearing. Shauna turned, her face a mask of animal confusion
The episode's title, "Buried," is a clever play on words, referencing not only the physical act of burying the dead but also the emotional burial of traumatic memories. The story jumps back and forth between 1996 and 2021, slowly unraveling the mysteries and connections between the characters.
Coming on the heels of the devastating revelation in Episode 8 ( "Flight of the Bumblebee" )—that the group’s leader, Jackie, accidentally discovered her best friend Shauna is pregnant with her boyfriend Jeff’s baby— Yellowjackets Season 1, Episode 9, serves as the bloody, psychedelic, and emotional crucible of the entire season. Directed by Eduardo Sánchez (co-director of The Blair Witch Project ) and written by Ameni Rozsa and Sarah L. Thompson, this penultimate episode delivers on the show's promise of turning literal teenage angst into outright savagery.
The episode's central plot revolves around the discovery of a crucial piece of evidence that could potentially change the course of the survivors' lives. As the group navigates their complex relationships and alliances, they begin to uncover dark secrets about their past and the events that led to the plane crash. As the days turn into weeks, the group's
Convinced that her lover Adam Martin is the anonymous blackmailer who has been extorting the survivors, Shauna confronts him. Panic and trauma take over, and she stabs and kills him in his apartment.
, titled "Doomcoming," serves as the explosive penultimate chapter that shatters the remaining vestiges of civility in the wilderness and upends the lives of the survivors 25 years later. Written by Ameni Rozsa and Sarah L. Thompson and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer, this episode is a pivotal moment in the series, shifting from survival drama to psychological horror. 1996: The Ritualistic Descent
: Lottie emerges as a spiritual leader, wearing the "Antler Queen" crown and prophesying that "we won’t be hungry for long". Jackie’s Isolation