The ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Finale Ending, Defined by Sophie Nelisse

Warning: Main spoilers forward for the “Yellowjackets” season three finale.

Shauna went off the rails in a serious means in “Yellowjackets” season three, however a minimum of one individual continues to be rooting for her: Sophie Nélisse, who performs teen Shauna.

The third outing of the Showtime hit survival thriller, which aired its finale Friday, follows a highschool women’ soccer workforce that will get stranded within the wilderness after the airplane crash. The present concurrently tracks the survivors’ grownup selves 25 years later as their traumatic experiences come again to hang-out them.

Whereas every of the survivors has loads of trauma (as a result of, properly, the cannibalism), none have been by way of the wringer fairly as a lot as Shauna, who was answerable for her greatest pal Jackie’s demise in season one after which misplaced her child in a stillbirth within the wilderness. These occasions have led to Shauna taking place a darkish, violent path in season three.

The episode, fittingly referred to as “Full Circle,” takes us again to the place all of it started: the scene from the pilot the place the ladies, in makeshift masks, seek out one in every of their very own, who falls right into a pit. Followers have been questioning for 3 seasons who “Pit Lady” and the group’s chief, the “Antler Queen,” may be. “Full Circle” provides viewers these two large reveals, establishing that Mari was the woman who was chased and fell right into a pit, and Shauna was the Antler Queen pursuing her.

Whereas the “Yellowjackets” forged was heartbroken to lose Mari (Alexa Barajas), they had been additionally excited to lastly get solutions. The Antler Queen twist wasn’t precisely surprising to Nélisse, who mentioned she noticed the writing on the wall a couple of episodes again as younger Shauna began wresting management away from Natalie (Sophie Thatcher), however she was nonetheless pleased to lastly see it play out.

She additionally questioned if Shauna’s new management position will quell the fury and grief she’s been pushed by all season lengthy. “Is that sufficient to appease her want for vengeance and energy?” Nélisse instructed BI.

Provided that the others had been actively plotting towards Shauna after she forbade all of them from leaving the wilderness when a pair of scientists and a information stumbled upon their bloody bacchanal, retaining the group from mutiny can even be a problem.

“I am curious to see how lengthy she will be able to maintain that energy,” Nélisse added.

Nélisse thinks Shauna is bisexual, however she’s unsure Shauna and Jackie had been greater than associates

One of many subtler obvious revelations within the finale occurs when a drunken Travis confronts Shauna earlier than the ladies depart to seek out Mari. He tells her that “none of that is even actual.” He means that he is experiencing the ideas of those that have died there, together with his youthful brother Javi and Shauna’s lifeless greatest pal Jackie.

Travis tells Shauna that Jackie’s ideas are his favourite: “The slumber celebration makeouts? The jealousy? The betrayal?”

Whether or not that was a drug-induced hallucination or not, it actually appears to counsel that one thing sexual went down between Shauna and Jackie, additional complicating a relationship that was already sophisticated by Shauna’s affair with Jackie’s boyfriend Jeff, who in the end married Shauna and has a daughter, Callie, together with her. That, paired with the season three storyline that sees Shauna embark on a poisonous relationship with fellow survivor Melissa, is fairly robust proof that Shauna and Jackie most likely connected at one level earlier than the crash.

Once I introduced it as much as Nélisse, she appeared shocked by that studying of the second. She mentioned she did not take it that means however liked the idea. Although she tries to keep away from taking a look at TikToks of the present, she’s properly conscious that many viewers assume there was one thing greater than friendship between Shauna and Jackie, a minimum of on Shauna’s facet.

“There’s not a solution, really, for that one. Lots of people have been hinting that there was sexuality between Jackie and Shauna,” Nélisse mentioned. “However the creators appeared, from our dialogue, to say that there wasn’t, however that there’s simply this actually complicated relationship. It is such a tremendous line to stroll on.”

“I believe it is as much as folks’s interpretation,” she added.

Nélisse has no thought what’s going to occur to Shauna in ‘Yellowjackets’ season 4, however she has some hopes

In accordance with Nélisse, the forged solely will get the scripts for an episode a couple of week earlier than filming. Meaning they are not aware about the lengthy sport the present is enjoying prematurely of particular person revelations, they usually haven’t got the solutions to ongoing mysteries like what is going on on with Taissa and whether or not there may be really one thing supernatural within the wilderness.

“Each season has felt nearly like a whole completely different character to me,” Nélisse mentioned of enjoying Shauna. “I believe what’s enjoyable is that I get to play considerably of the villain [in season three], however on the similar time, with all of her background and all of her trauma and all of her baggage that she’s been carrying.”

Nélisse says Shauna’s baggage helped her contextualize a few of her character’s much less well-liked choices.

“Though every little thing that she does is perhaps not excusable, you perceive the why behind it. So I’ve a number of empathy for her,” she added. “It has been simply actually enjoyable to have the ability to faucet into one thing quite a bit darker. However on the similar time, nonetheless caring for her and rooting for her, in a means.”

So can Shauna go any darker in a not-yet-confirmed season 4? Nélisse is not positive, however she type of hopes so.

“A part of me desires her to go even crazier, however I am like, she must settle down.”

The “Yellowjackets” season three finale is now streaming on Paramount+.