Yellowjackets Season 2 Will Address Jackie's Diary Entry Discrepancies
The Yellowjackets showrunners talk about the discrepancies in Jackie's journal, with some entries written after her death, saying the audience will find out where they come from in season 2. Showrunners Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, and Jonathon Lisco have confirmed that the second season has been written and filming is set to commence in late summer this year. The series stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Sophie Nelisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, and Sammi Hanratty.
Yellowjackets follows a high school soccer team who crash land in the Canadian wilderness in 1996 as they survive for 19 months, as well as a parallel narrative in 2021 that shows the survivors coping with the long-term effects of the incident. The season one finale saw the death of Jackie (Ella Purnell) after she decides to sleep outside and subsequently freezes to death. Yellowjacketsshows her diary in the sixth episode of season 1 which contains references to movies that would have come out after her death in 1996, leading to inconsistencies.
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In an interview with Variety, the three showrunners get asked if the audience will find out who wrote the subsequent entries in Jackie's diary. The interviewer asks if Shauna (Nelisse) is responsible for the entries, which Lisco suggests isn't the case. However, he does confirm that the audience will find out why the entries are there in the second season. Read his quote below:
I don't want to say we will find out that Shauna wrote those entries necessarily, but, we will find out why they exist.
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