This story comprises spoilers for the primary two seasons of “Yellowjackets.”
Tv’s favourite champion soccer gamers turned wilderness survival cannibals are lastly again.
The third season of “Yellowjackets” premieres Friday on Paramount+ with Showtime, almost two years after the conclusion of Season 2. Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the sequence follows a bunch of youngsters (and one grownup) which are stranded within the Canadian wilds after their airplane crashes in 1996 in addition to their grown-up present-day counterparts who’ve tried to maneuver on with their lives after being rescued.
Sadly for the survivors, their previous continues to hang-out — and hunt — them.
On the finish of Season 2, the teenager survivors anoint Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) as their new chief after sacrificing considered one of their very own to appease the wilderness after which consuming him to fulfill their excessive starvation. They’re final seen scrambling out of the cabin they’ve been utilizing for shelter as it’s engulfed in flames. The hearth was presumably set by coach Ben (Steven Krueger), who was seen stealing some matches after fleeing to a brand new secret shelter to flee the kids’ rising insanity and descent into cannibalism.
Within the current day, Natalie (Juliette Lewis) is by accident killed by Misty (Christina Ricci) amid the survivors’ try and revive their apply of providing a ritual sacrifice to the wilderness — although not all people was really on board. In the meantime, Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) could now not be the suspect within the killing she did commit. Whether or not Taissa (Tawny Cypress) has resolved her dissociative sleepwalking is but to be seen.
Who’s nonetheless alive?
Taissa (Tawny Cypress), left, Van (Lauren Ambrose), Jeff (Warren Kole ) and Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) in “Yellowjackets.”
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The current-day survivors of the 1996 airplane crash who’ve been reunited to take care of the aftermath are Shauna Sadecki née Shipman, Taissa Turner, Misty Quigley, Lottie Matthews (Simone Kessell) and Van Palmer (Lauren Ambrose).
The 1996 survivors of the airplane crash additionally embody coach Ben Scott, Travis Martinez, Mari, Akilah, Melissa and Gen. Whereas present-day Travis was found lifeless by Natalie and Misty in Season 1, the fates of the others haven’t but been revealed.
Notable deaths 
Javi (Luciano Leroux) and Natalie (Juliette Lewis) in “Yellowjackets.”
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Natalie Scatorccio: The troubled former chief of the Yellowjackets was by accident killed by Misty within the current whereas making an attempt to guard her new pal Lisa.
Kevyn Tran: The detective and former classmate of the Yellowjackets was killed by Walter Tattersall within the current whereas investigating the loss of life of Adam Martin.
Javi Martinez: Travis’ youthful brother fell right into a frozen lake and died whereas making an attempt to guard Natalie from being hunted by her teammates in 1996.
Crystal (Kristen): A member of the soccer crew who survived the airplane crash. Falls off a cliff to her loss of life throughout a tense second with Misty, who had revealed to her that she destroyed the airplane’s transponder to sabotage their probabilities of getting rescued.
Shauna’s child: Shauna was pregnant (with the kid of her present-day husband — and Jackie’s then-boyfriend — Jeff) when the airplane crashed in 1996. The newborn boy didn’t survive childbirth.
Adam Martin: The artist who’s having an affair with present-day Shauna is killed by her when she believes he’s blackmailing her and her Yellowjacket teammates for what they did whereas they had been stranded within the Canadian wilds.
Jackie Taylor: The captain of the soccer crew and Shauna’s greatest pal froze to loss of life in her sleep after a falling-out together with her teammates. She is the primary individual to be eaten by the airplane crash survivors. She sometimes seems to Shauna in visions.
Travis Martinez: The elder son of coach Martinez and Natalie’s on-and-off lover who survived the 1996 airplane crash. Discovered hanging in his barn by Misty and Natalie within the current. In keeping with Lottie, who says she was there, the loss of life was an accident.
Jessica Roberts: The fixer employed by Taissa within the current to research her fellow airplane crash survivors by posing as a journalist. Held captive by Misty who finally kills her.
Laura Lee: A non secular member of the soccer crew that survived the crash however dies when the airplane she was piloting to attempt to search assist explodes within the air. She generally seems to her teammates in visions.
Some questions that stay for Season 3 
Shauna (Sophie Nélisse), left, and Mari (Alexa Barajas) in “Yellowjackets.”
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What’s “it”? One of many central mysteries of the sequence is whether or not the wilderness is a few type of supernatural entity or darkish pressure looking the surviving Yellowjackets, as some like Lottie within the current nonetheless imagine, or if it’s one thing the ladies collectively imagined to justify what they did to outlive the 19 months they had been stranded. If the latter is true, every part taking place within the current might simply be some type of manifestation of their repressed trauma. Both means, it appears “it” shall be trying so as to add to its physique rely in Season 3.
What number of survivors had been there initially after the airplane crash? The sequence has targeted on the small group of core survivors who’ve reconnected within the current: Shauna, Misty, Natalie, Taissa, Van and Lottie. However the variety of different survivors proven in 1996 has fluctuated over the course of the present’s first two seasons. Simply what number of of them there have been within the wilderness (and what number of of them had been sacrificed and eaten) stays a thriller.
What’s up with Walter? Through the second season, Misty befriends Walter Tattersall (Elijah Wooden), a fellow citizen sleuth lively on the crime-solving message board she frequents. Walter initially appears eager on fixing the thriller round Adam’s disappearance and loss of life, however he later helps derail the official investigation by killing and framing Kevyn Tran. Is Walter so into Misty that somewhat homicide isn’t any huge deal, or does he have ulterior motives?
Who was the woman that was hunted and eaten on the very starting of the sequence? The primary episode of “Yellowjackets” opens with a woman being chased by the woods in the course of the winter who falls to her loss of life in some type of pit. She is later proven to be slaughtered and eaten as a part of some type of cannibalistic ritual. Though there was loads of hypothesis, the identification of the woman has not but been confirmed.
