Yellowjackets season 1 episode 3

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This week on Yellowjackets season 1, the girls disagree on whether to stay put or take their chances going to the lake. In the present day, Tai struggles with her campaign, Shauna tries to catch her husband cheating, and Natalie and Misty take a road trip — with devastating results. The episode starts off on a somber note, with the team burying people who have died, including their teammate Rachel and a few of the plane crew. Jackie is confident the rescue team will come soon, but others are getting skeptical. After taking a vote — one in which Shauna sides with Tai instead of Jackie — they all make the trek to the water, carrying the coach on a stretcher.

Yellowjackets season 1 episode 3

Recap pages are Spoilers Off per policy and all spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned. The group forms a circle around five improvised grave markers and Laura Lee leads a prayer for the deceased—the flight crew, team member Rachel Goldman the only player killed in the crash , Coach Martinez, and Coach Scott's leg. As Laura Lee prays, the scene flashes back to a moment in a much younger Taissa's life. She is visiting her grandmother, who is near death. Nana, in bed and hooked up to monitors, tells little Taissa that "Dying is nothing to be afraid of," and that it is God calling us back to heaven to be with the angels. Flashback over. Food and water are running low. Travis yells at his brother for going out of his way to preserve the chewing gum their father gave him to pop his ears. Taissa announces she saw a lake and proposes they hike out in that direction.

For Shauna, her rage is kept mostly under the surface and used as a defensive tool when needed.

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The survivors find a lake; from there, they spot a cabin. In , away from societal norms and regulations, Jackie and her leadership crumble bit by bit. When Taissa spots a lake a few miles away and tells the other girls that they should go to it to secure a water source, Jackie adamantly refuses, claiming that the best option for them is to stay near the plane and wait for the rescuers. The audience knows this to be true. After all, we have seen Misty destroying the emergency transmitter. Eventually, they reach the lake. As the survivors take a brief respite from their worries and fear and start to relax, Lottie spots a reflection in the distance.

Yellowjackets season 1 episode 3

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. Natalie and Misty are an unlikely and yet perfect present-day duo as they make their way to New Hampshire to track down Travis. But Misty has specific tastes — like cheap gas-station meat, dates with guys who steal office supplies and ask for her socks, and the Cats soundtrack. While she is thinking back on their time together, she imagines she sees him standing in the doorway, and this vision of him looks a lot like the mysterious guy shown in quick flashes in the intro.

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After all, her seemingly sweet son hits another child on the playground and harshly talks back to her when she tries to take away his toy. At the hotel bar, they make conversation. Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Taissa comments that she's three days out of rehab and arrested, asking if there was some kind of record to beat. Their conversation is interrupted when Sammy hits another boy in the playground and makes him cry. They discover an abandoned cabin in wilderness that looks straight out of The Evil Dead. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. The majority votes in favor of the lake, including, to Jackie's shock, Shauna. The place has clearly been abandoned for a long time. Top picks Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations.

So much of Yellowjackets seemed set to deal with trauma, the ongoing nightmare that the girls, now women, are still trapped in, even decades after the crash. The episode starts, rather sweetly, with a burial.

Natalie hallucinates Travis while searching around the home. So when I started watching this, I had no idea that it would be so amazing to watch and that every single episode will have a dead animal scene. At Shauna 's house, Jeff makes some celery juice. Never Suicide : Despite finding Travis's body hanging and having a note that sounds suspiciously like a Suicide Note , Natalie insists he would not kill himself. Sign in. Bringing in the cabin in the woods is an enjoyable little reframing of the narrative; up until this point, viewers may have assumed the show would be hunting a very human type of monster. She applies some lotion to her poison ivy rash. Show Leave a Comment. He tells her that people are who they pretend to be. Taissa directs them to check the pantry and look around for anything they can use, like first aid or flashlights. I won't think twice about destroying you, your family Natalie shakes her head, but Misty points out that they haven't seen Travis in 25 years and he has Unabomber written all over him. Natalie pleads because she needs to find Travis, but Taissa hangs up.