With the multi-layered, dreamlike presentation of this first cannibal feast, Yellowjackets establishes that the girls are desperate they are, after all, literally starving. Not only is their collective hallucination about self-protection in a time of trauma, but it also takes on an oddly sexual, Bacchanalian tone here. “When they’re shoving figs and pomegranates and mutton and whatever in each other’s mouths, and it gets into a really histrionic state, we thought that was a thing of beauty,” he added, noting that the scene had multiple layers of meaning. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Every Viewer’s Worst Fear Finally Comes True

We have to objectively render some of what they’re going through because that’s truthful, but at the same time, this gave us an opportunity to add an extra element of mass hallucination that they needed to collectively protect themselves from the horror.” Writer Jonathan Lisco also spoke about the scene to Vulture, noting that the creatives “do not shy away from the gruesome, but we also don’t want to be gratuitous about it.” He added that, “It’s funny, because people say the show is so brutal, and I want to be clear that we never set out to be salacious or sensational. It is, effectively, the perfect barbecue. After the girls place Jackie's frozen body atop a makeshift pyre and set it alight, the gruesome conclusion seems inevitable: A gust of wind puts out the flame, leaving only burning embers below the body. In fact, the act of eating takes on a myriad of subtle meanings, as shown through the layered representation of the feasts themselves.Įpisode 2, aptly titled “Edible Complex,” concluded with the show’s first cannibal feast since the pilot’s stomach-churning final moments. Instead, in Season 2 of Yellowjackets, each of the show’s “feasts” has been a seismic, oddly artistic event. But much like the rest of the show, the feasting scenes are never simple and never what we expect. In the show’s second season, the feasting finally begins. After the infamous pit scene that opened the pilot saw the girls hunting and ritualistically eating one of their own, the rest of the season slowly brought us closer to the cannibalism that was promised-and Sunday’s episode finally brought perhaps the most gruesome meal yet.

The Yellowjackets girls are hungry, and since its opening moments back in Season 1, the show has promised to feed them.

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