Mari’s Yellowjackets Season 3 Fate Creates A Bigger Mystery For The Season 1 Finale

Warning: There are spoilers forward for Yellowjackets season 3.The destiny of Mari Ibarra (Alexa Barajas) creates a brand new thriller within the Yellowjackets season 1 finale. As one of many survivors of Yellowjackets‘ plane crash within the wilderness, Mari has been within the present since season 1. She has solely been featured as a young person in Yellowjackets‘ 1990s timeline, along with her function turning into more and more extra outstanding, particularly in season 3 as her feud with Shauna Shipman (Sophie Nélisse) intensifies, and when she crosses paths with Coach Ben Scott (Steven Krueger), and shares the place he’s hiding, which ends up in his trial, torment, and eventual loss of life.

The Yellowjackets season 3 finale reveals that Mari dies within the wilderness and is the Pit Lady who was teased within the present’s first episode, along with her destiny being sealed after she attracts the Queen of Hearts card for the group’s hunt. This explains why Mari has been absent from the present-day timeline and guidelines out the potential for her being one other shock grownup survivor. Nonetheless, Mari’s destiny within the wilderness does increase new questions concerning the Yellowjackets’ highschool reunion within the season 1 finale.

Why Wasn’t Mari Featured Extra In Yellowjackets Season 1’s Reunion Video?

Misty, Natalie, Taissa, & Shauna Attend The Reunion

Throughout Yellowjackets season 1’s ending, the grownup Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), Taissa Turner (Tawny Cypress), Natalie Scattorcio (Juliette Lewis), and Misty Quigley (Christina Ricci) attend their highschool’s 25-year class reunion. A part of the reunion is an in-memoriam video that closely options Jackie Taylor (Ella Purnell), who died within the wilderness, and had her physique cannibalized by her teammates. With the season 1 finale additionally being the episode the place Jackie’s loss of life occurs within the Nineties timeline, the reunion video’s concentrate on her makes narrative sense.

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From an in-universe standpoint, although, it seemingly doesn’t make sense for the video to principally concentrate on Jackie. She was the captain of the soccer crew, the homecoming queen, and a preferred pupil, nevertheless it stands to purpose that the video would additionally commemorate the opposite Yellowjackets who died within the wilderness. With Mari now confirmed to be amongst those that die within the wilderness, her absence from the reunion video feels unusual. Mari didn’t have the identical social standing as Jackie, however her highschool would presumably nonetheless need to honor her reminiscence.

Mari Would possibly Have Been Youthful Than Jackie & The Survivors

She May Have Been A Junior

One potential rationalization for Mari’s absence within the video could also be that she was youthful than Jackie and the survivors who attended the reunion. It’s confirmed that Jackie and Shauna are each seniors once they discuss going to school the next yr. Taissa, Natalie, and Misty are all implied to be seniors as nicely, since they attend the reunion with Shauna. It’s potential that Mari was a yr youthful than them and was a junior in highschool when the aircraft crashed, which might clarify why she shouldn’t be prominently featured within the video.

With it being a 25-year class reunion, the video could also be particularly honoring the seniors from the graduating class, which provides extra credence to the concentrate on Jackie. Throughout the next yr’s class reunion, there could also be a brand new video that extra so highlights Mari and different members of the crew who have been juniors and who didn’t come again from the wilderness. Shauna being a senior and Mari being a junior would additionally add one other layer to their feud and to Shauna’s perception that she was superior to Mari.

Yellowjackets’ Rescue Timeline Can Lastly Discover Extra About How The City Honored The Lifeless Characters

The Lifeless Can Be Honored In The Extra Rapid Aftermath Of Being Rescued

The highschool reunion within the season 1 finale exhibits a method that the city of Wiskayok, New Jersey has honored Jackie. The awkward brunch scene between Shauna, Jeff Sadecki (Warren Kole), and Jackie’s mother and father in season 1 exhibits one other means that Jackie has been remembered. Now that teenage Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) has made contact with the surface world, Yellowjackets season 4 is poised to discover the instant post-rescue timeline within the Nineties, which may present different ways in which Wiskayok has honored the opposite lifeless Yellowjackets.

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Up to now, the instant post-rescue timeline has solely been proven within the opening of season 2, when teenage Lottie Matthews (Courtney Eaton) and her teammates defend their faces from the media, board a aircraft, and Lottie lets out a chilling scream. As soon as the Yellowjackets are rescued, season 4 can discover this time interval in larger depth and with out having to fret about spoiling which characters died within the wilderness. Season 4 can reveal how Jackie, Mari, Laura Lee (Jane Widdop), and the opposite lifeless Yellowjackets are commemorated, lengthy earlier than the 25-year class reunion.

There’ll probably be funerals and memorials for the deceased gamers and different people related to the crew who died within the wilderness. The surviving Yellowjackets must sit via these occasions, all whereas figuring out how Jackie, Mari, Laura Lee, Javi Martinez (Luciano Leroux), Crystal (Nuha Jes Iman), Coach Ben, and Coach Martinez (Carlos Sanz) actually died. This may occasionally contribute to Melissa (Jenna Burgess) feeling like she is now not one of many Yellowjackets, which her grownup self (Hilary Swank) mentions after her present-day survival is revealed in season 4.

Melissa could battle with concealing the function that she and her teammates performed in lots of of those deaths, from looking and consuming Mari to Jackie freezing to loss of life and later having her corpse eaten. This additionally doesn’t embrace different Yellowjackets character deaths that the general public doesn’t find out about, together with these of Edwin (Nelson Franklin) and Kodiak (Joel McHale). Lifeless characters like Mari affecting Melissa and inflicting her to interrupt away from the group is a means for the deceased Yellowjackets to nonetheless play a task within the Nineties timeline throughout season 4.

It would even be tough for Travis Martinez (Kevin Alves) to mislead everybody, particularly his mom, about what occurred to Javi. He does have to lie about what occurred to his father, as Coach Martinez’s loss of life was merely a part of the aircraft crash, however Travis undoubtedly won’t inform the reality about Javi being sacrificed to the wilderness and the group consuming his coronary heart. This is likely one of the many storylines that may be explored by honoring the lifeless characters in Yellowjackets season 4’s post-rescue timeline.

Yellowjackets

7/10

Launch Date

November 14, 2021

Community

Showtime, Paramount+ with Showtime

Showrunner

Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Jonathan Lisco

Administrators

Benjamin Semanoff, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Deepa Mehta, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Liz Garbus, Scott Winant, Eva Sørhaug, Jamie Travis

Writers

Liz Phang, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa