Yellowjackets Creators Confirm Jackie's Fate Could Be Shauna's Fault
Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Yellowjackets.
Yellowjackets creators, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, discuss how Jackie's fate in the season 1 finale was possibly the result of Shauna's actions. Having premiered its finale this past Sunday, Yellowjackets concluded the first of its planned five seasons on Showtime. The series has been a hit for the network both with critics and audiences, quickly amassing a following that has grown due to word-of-mouth and frequent theorizing from fans on how the story will unfold.
Yellowjackets follows a high school soccer team in 1996, who crash land in the wilderness, leaving them stranded for 19 months, as well as the lives of the survivors 25 years later. One of the central relationships is that of Shauna (Sophie Nelisse and Melanie Lynskey) and Jackie (Ella Purnell) two friends that have a falling out in the forest after it's revealed that Shauna has become pregnant by Jackie's boyfriend, Jeff (Warren Kole,), whom Shauna is shown to be married to in the 2021 time period. In the season 1 finale, Jackie turns on the other survivors for trying to kill Travis (Kevin Alves) in episode 9, «Doomcoming,» which in turn gets her sent outside of the cabin before it snows, where she then freezes to death overnight.
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In an interview with ET Canada, Lyle, Nickerson, and Purnell talk about Jackie's sendoff, and what that means for the rest of the survivors. They discuss how Shauna will have to deal with the responsibility of Jackie's death, and how it's something "that could arguably be her fault." Shauna clearly still feels this guilt as an adult in 2021, where she sees visions of Jackie. They also talk about
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