This story accommodates 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 collection follows a gaggle of youngsters (and one grownup) which are stranded within the Canadian wilds after their aircraft 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 one in every 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 probably set by coach Ben (Steven Krueger), who was seen stealing some matches after fleeing to a brand new secret shelter to flee the teenagers’ rising insanity and descent into cannibalism.
Within the current day, Natalie (Juliette Lewis) is unintentionally killed by Misty (Christina Ricci) amid the survivors’ try to revive their observe of providing a ritual sacrifice to the wilderness — although not everyone was really on board. In the meantime, Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) might 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 aircraft crash who’ve been reunited to cope with 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 aircraft crash additionally embrace coach Ben Scott, Travis Martinez, Mari, Akilah, Melissa and Gen. Whereas present-day Travis was found useless 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 unintentionally 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 dying 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 staff who survived the aircraft crash. Falls off a cliff to her dying throughout a tense second with Misty, who had revealed to her that she destroyed the aircraft’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 aircraft 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 staff and Shauna’s finest pal froze to dying in her sleep after a falling-out along with her teammates. She is the primary individual to be eaten by the aircraft 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 aircraft crash. Discovered hanging in his barn by Misty and Natalie within the current. In keeping with Lottie, who says she was there, the dying was an accident.
Jessica Roberts: The fixer employed by Taissa within the current to research her fellow aircraft crash survivors by posing as a journalist. Held captive by Misty who ultimately kills her.
Laura Lee: A spiritual member of the soccer staff that survived the crash however dies when the aircraft 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 collection is whether or not the wilderness is a few kind of supernatural entity or darkish drive searching the surviving Yellowjackets, as some like Lottie within the current nonetheless consider, 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, the whole lot taking place within the current might simply be some kind of manifestation of their repressed trauma. Both approach, it appears “it” will probably be trying so as to add to its physique depend in Season 3.
What number of survivors had been there initially after the aircraft crash? The collection 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? In the course of 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 dying, however he later helps derail the official investigation by killing and framing Kevyn Tran. Is Walter so into Misty that a bit homicide is not any massive deal, or does he have ulterior motives?
Who was the lady that was hunted and eaten on the very starting of the collection? The primary episode of “Yellowjackets” opens with a woman being chased by way of the woods in the course of the winter who falls to her dying in some kind of pit. She is later proven to be slaughtered and eaten as a part of some kind of cannibalistic ritual. Though there was loads of hypothesis, the identification of the lady has not but been confirmed.