‘Yellowjackets’ Season 1 Recap: All The Wildest Moments To Remember Before Season 2 Premieres

Yellowjackets play 2 is 1 of the astir highly-anticipated shows of 2023. The archetypal play became a improvement and an instant deed for Showtime. From the nostalgia constituent to the jaw-dropping twists to the endless Reddit theories, Yellowjackets has everything you’d ever privation successful a show.

It’s been implicit a twelvemonth since the archetypal play premiered, and so much went down. With countless shows to watch, you mightiness beryllium wondering, what happened in Yellowjackets play 1? What bash I request to retrieve earlier watching play 2, particularly with 2 timelines involved? HollywoodLife has your bases covered.

Samantha Hanratty arsenic Teen Misty. (Showtime)

The Plane Crash

The 1996 Wiskayok High School girls’ shot squad was connected their mode from New Jersey to Seattle to vie astatine nationals erstwhile their level crashed successful the Canadian wilderness. Several members of the shot squad died successful the crash, including Coach Martinez. Coach Ben Scott was severely injured and Misty was forced to amputate his leg. Given the distant determination of the crash, the Yellowjackets weren’t recovered for 19 months.

The archetypal play began to research however the squad survived retired successful the wilderness successful the archetypal months aft the crash. Even aft 25 years, the survivors were inactive grappling with what happened retired there.

Misty Destroyed The Black Box

The level was breached disconnected into pieces successful the crash. After taking power successful the contiguous aftermath of the crash, Misty relished being needed by everyone. In the last moments of occurrence 2, Misty stumbled crossed the plane’s achromatic box, which could assistance hunt and rescue find them. Instead of bringing it backmost to the survivors, she destroyed it, truthful making it adjacent harder for anyone to ever find them.

When HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Samantha Hanratty, who plays young Misty, she said Misty’s determination “definitely was a determination that she made purely due to the fact that it’s the archetypal clip that she’s ever mattered, and she’s truthful caught up successful that mindset of wanting truthful severely to conscionable support this imagination satellite going. She’s not adjacent reasoning astir the repercussions of what that mightiness look like.”

Shauna’s Pregnancy

Out successful the wilderness, Shauna soon realized she was pregnant erstwhile she ne'er got her period. Shauna attempted to springiness herself an termination successful the woods. Tai recovered Shauna and agreed to assistance truthful she wouldn’t beryllium alone. Shauna decided she couldn’t spell done with the abortion. She broke down successful Tai’s arms astir not wanting to die. Shauna was good alert that having a kid successful the wilderness with nary aesculapian interference could termination her.

Sophie Nelisse and Ella Purnell arsenic Shauna and Jackie. (Showtime)

Shauna’s gestation was adjacent much complicated. Shauna was large with Jeff’s baby. Shauna had been sleeping with Jeff, Jackie’s boyfriend, down her champion friend’s back. Jackie yet recovered retired the information astir Shauna and Jeff, which resulted successful a monolithic combat betwixt the 2 champion friends.

At the extremity of play 1, Shauna is inactive pregnant. However, determination are galore theories astir what happened to the babe since the kid intelligibly is not live successful the 2021 timeline.

Jackie’s Death

The play 1 finale ended with the shocking decease of Jackie. After a immense showdown betwixt Jackie and Shauna successful beforehand of everyone, Jackie decided to slumber extracurricular for the night. When Shauna woke up the adjacent morning, she knew thing was terribly wrong. She looked extracurricular and saw snowfall connected the ground. She ran extracurricular and recovered Jackie had frozen to death.

“I deliberation she’s going to person a truly hard clip afterward due to the fact that adjacent though things were going sour with Jackie, I don’t deliberation they’ve adjacent ever truly had specified a large combat before,” Sophie Nelisse told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY astir however Shauna volition respond to Jackie’s demise. “So for it starring to her death, I deliberation she’s conscionable going to enactment each of the unit connected her shoulders. She’s going to beryllium adjacent somewhat traumatized astir apt afterward.”

Javi Ran Away

Laura Lee attempted to alert the level she recovered successful the woods, but it exploded successful mid-air. The survivors began to judge they were each doomed, truthful they decided to person a Doomcoming party. Misty’s obsession with Coach Ben was inactive successful afloat force, and she was readying to poison him with mushrooms. However, Mari stumbled upon the mushrooms and enactment them successful the stew.

Soon, astir everyone was tripping connected these hallucinogenic mushrooms. Jackie slept with Travis aft uncovering retired astir Shauna and Jeff. At 1 point, Shauna had a weapon to Travis’ cervix and was astir to termination him successful immoderate weird sacrifice earlier Natalie stopped her. In the midst of the Doomcoming chaos, Shauna told Javi to run. He hasn’t been seen since.

The Antler Queen

The Antler Queen successful ‘Yellowjackets.’ (Showtime)

Who is the Antler Queen? That’s 1 of the biggest questions Yellowjackets fans person aft the archetypal season. At the opening of the series, there’s a country involving immoderate of the survivors surrounding the Antler Queen successful the midst of a brutal winter. They are each covered from caput to toe, truthful nary 1 tin beryllium identified. The lone idiosyncratic seen is Misty, who takes disconnected her caput covering.

Also successful the aviator episode, a enigma brunette was seen moving done the woods. She fell into a trap and was aboriginal slaughtered for food. Most everyone thought the brunette was Jackie, but present we cognize for definite that Jackie was not the enigma girl. During the Doomcoming party, Lottie tin beryllium seen wearing the Antler Queen headpiece, but we don’t cognize for definite that she’s the Antler Queen conscionable yet. At the extremity of play 1, Lottie appeared to sacrifice a carnivore bosom to the woods and muttered, “And fto the acheronian acceptable america free.”

Samantha revealed successful our EXCLUSIVE interview that she had been told who the Antler Queen was astatine the opening of the season. “I’ve been told precise fewer things, but I did get told who the Antler Queen was erstwhile I filmed the pilot. Now, that could person changed. They alteration things connected america each the time, truthful that could person changed. But for now, I’m conscionable going to bash my champion to beryllium a bully actor, and not accidental thing I’m not expected to,” she said.

Shauna Killed Her Lover

In the 2021 timeline, Shauna started having an matter with the handsome and mysterious Adam. However, erstwhile Shauna believed that Adam was the 1 blackmailing her and the different survivors, she killed him. But everything was not arsenic it appeared. Turns out, her hubby Jeff — yes, that Jeff — was the 1 blackmailing Shauna and the survivors to effort and prevention his furnishings store.

Tai, Shauna, and Nat lasting implicit Adam’s dormant body. (Showtime)

After discovering that Jeff was down the blackmailing, she protected him by sticking to her archetypal mentation that Adam was down everything. Misty, Natalie, and Tai helped Shauna get escaped of Adam’s body.

Nat Was Kidnapped

Nat was devastated aft uncovering retired astir Travis’ decease and was convinced helium didn’t instrumentality his ain life. In the last moments of the play 1 finale, Nat was astir to termination herself. Suddenly, members of a radical wearing necklaces featuring the mysterious awesome the girls recovered successful the woods broke into her motel country and kidnapped Nat. As she was being taken away, her person Suzie called astir Travis’ slope account. She discovered who had emptied his account. “Who the f**k is Lottie Matthews?” Suzie asked, revealing that Lottie was live and good successful the contiguous timeline.

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