‘Yellowjackets’ Show runners on season 3 Time jump, Pit Girl Parallels

Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of season 3 “Yellowjackets”, which now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime.

The last time viewers saw the teenager yellowjackets, their cabin was flooded with flames, making them vulnerable and without shelter in the Canadian wilderness.

Instead of continuing the timeline of the nineties with the immediate aftermath of the cabin that burns down, “Yellowjackets” is shifting season 3 to the summer, where the survivors of the aircraft crash have founded an improvised village with wooden huts, one Garden and even a rabbit and even a rabbit and a rabbit and even a rabbit and even a rabbit and a rabbit and even a rabbit and even have a rabbit and duck farm.

Employees Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson had an in-depth discussion with their fellow showrunner, Jonathan Lisco, about whether the last season in the winter or with a time jump should continue.

“In the end it came down to really want a reset, and it felt like the best way to just make a clean break was to jump the time. And we had played with the idea of ​​doing flashbacks during the storytelling of Van, but in the end we thought that this kind was undermining the power of the break and the reset, ”says Lyle Variety. “To be honest, from a pure producer point of view, to make the winter again in the summer, is not easy to do. We knew that we wanted to have as many resources as possible for a number of things we knew they were discussed, and to be honest, keeping things in the snow – keeping things up – it just didn’t feel worthwhile. It felt like it was nicer to just dive into it. ‘

Lisco adds: “Not cutting back everything makes the young women even more formidable, because it is like:” Oh my God, of course they are so resourceful and so intense that they have managed this. ” And then continue with a new story.

Samantha Hanratty, who portrays the young Misty, admitted that she was disappointed when she initially heard that season 3 would not show what happened after the cabin burned down. “In the beginning I am not going to lie, I think I was bumped, because I thought,” Dang, I want to see the fight, “she says.” But I am really grateful that we didn’t do that. And I think it’s it Nice that we pick up this positive note. ”

Sophie Nélisse, who plays teenage Shauna, repeated similar feelings and noted that she was ‘shocked’ that the series would not investigate how the Yellowjackets survived the winter outside. In the end, however, she found that it was more compelling to see the group bloom and experience a sense of normality, given the circumstances. “Actually it is even creepy and frightening, because you are so much, there are certainly cracks somewhere. It can’t be rainbows and fairy tales and sunshine, “she says. “So I think it makes it even narrower, because you know that what is underneath is even more problematic.”

The third season opens with Mari (Alexa Barajas) who runs through the forest while she hears the sound of howling and cries that echoes in the distance. Later, at the end of the first episode, Coach Scott (Steven Kroegerer), who stormed the village after a heated exchange with Shauna, discovers imprisoned in the notorious well. These scenes are reminiscent of the opening of season 1, in which viewers get acquainted with Pit Girl – whose identity still remains a mystery.

“It was absolutely intentional. That opening order, I think it was in the first paragraph of the stage direction: “You might think about Pit Girl,” “Lyle says with a smile, to which Lisco adds:” And if you don’t, why are your it You? ”

Lyle continues: “But we love the idea of ​​the bait and the switch and again, we wanted the opening of this season to be a real reset. Last season they were trapped, they were isolated. It was claustrophobic. And this season we wanted to reduce some of the primordial joy and start something that looks like a yacht, and then realize that they actually have the time of their lives. They have a lot of fun in the midst of survival and all the terrible things that happen to them. “

This season, new developments and dynamics for the Teen Yellowjackets, especially Natalie (Sophie Thatcher), which is now the leader of the group after he has been crowned the antlers in season 2.

“I feel that she is much more serious this season; I feel that she is forced to grow up, “says Thatcher Variety. “I think in the first season there might be moments of lightness that you will see with Travis, but this season there is really no lightness for Natalie. I think she is less an outcast in some respects, because she really tries to bring everyone together. “

Although season 3 has to introduce even more adult yellowjackets (if present), different background characters are brought forward in the timeline of the 1990s, including Melissa (Jenna Burgess), who tries to form a band with Shauna, and Mari, who is taken , who is taken captive by Coach Scott.

“I am just completely in the idea that the show has its own kind of life and opinions, and that we are trying to reach out,” says Nickerson, who makes his directing debut with the premiere episode of the third season. “I think those characters are pushing their way forward and choosing to become a larger part of the story.”

Lisco adds: “You often look at [side characters] And you are, well, what is their lives about? How are they going to perceive what is going on? They never talk. What do they think? Why don’t they step forward? Those people can have such a rich experience with what happens as our main characters, even though they don’t always talk about it. I want to investigate that. “