Yellowjackets Season 2 ended with the teenage variations of the present’s predominant characters waking as much as their cabin on fireplace, sparking many theories as to who precipitated it with hopes that Season 3 would offer a particular reply.
After a hiatus that lasted shut to 2 years, Yellowjackets Season 3 lastly premiered on February 14 (Valentine’s Day) with a two-episode premiere on Paramount+ with Showtime.
Though the new installment has simply begun, followers are already begging for solutions to some main questions that had been raised in Season 2, with the largest being who began the cabin fireplace.
Did Coach Ben Burn the Cabin in Yellowjackets Season 2?
The tip of Yellowjackets Season 2 featured the youngsters (learn extra about the actors who play the youngsters and their grownup counterparts right here) waking as much as discover their cabin on fireplace, which means they must survive the winter stranded in the Canadian wilderness with none first rate shelter.
Season 2 additionally ended with a surprising demise in the present’s current timeline which then led to one in all the sequence’ main actors leaving the present.
At the time, it appeared as although Coach Ben Scott was the one who set the cabin on fireplace. In any case, he deserted the teen ladies at the heart of the sequence and went out into the wilderness on his personal. He was even seen with matches which led many viewers to consider he was accountable for burning the cabin.
The Season 3 premiere strengthened this concept when a number of of the ladies thought Ben burned the cabin down as nicely.
Nevertheless, everybody’s suspicions had been turned on their heads when the present seemingly revealed that Ben didn’t have something to do with the cabin burning down.
In Season 3, Episode 2, Mari by chance falls right into a lure in the woods. The lure turned out to be one set by Ben, and he discovered her there after she fell in and dislocated her knee.
After Ben discovered Mari, she virtually tried to get on his good aspect by telling him that she defended him and by no means believed he began the fireplace.
To viewers’ shock (and Mari’s), Ben’s facial features turned to shock as he stated, “What are you speaking about? The cabin burned down?”
It appeared like Ben genuinely had no concept about the cabin, which is a bit stunning since a cabin being on fireplace can be seen from miles away and the scent would attain simply as far.
Ben additionally revealed he had been attempting to remain as distant from them as attainable since he left, making it extra doubtless that he actually didn’t burn it down.
It’s at all times attainable Ben may very well be mendacity, however Yellowjackets appears to be doing all the things it will possibly to genuinely rule Ben out, making the complete scenario much more mysterious.
(*3*)So Who Burned the Cabin Down Then?
If Ben didn’t burn the cabin down, there are solely a handful of attainable culprits who would make sense.
The primary and most certainly state of affairs can be that it was somebody from the exterior. This could particularly change into much more doubtless if Season 3 finally ends up introducing some new characters in the Nineties timeline.
It has been teased for a while now that the youngsters usually are not alone. There could also be an individual or perhaps a group of individuals additionally residing out in the wilderness, and burning down the ladies’ solely type of shelter in the winter would have been a significant victory for this different celebration.
If it isn’t somebody on the exterior, it must be one in all the ladies. After all, one in all the best folks to level at can be Taissa since she has a extra sinister aspect to her that has been placed on full show a number of instances over the sequence up to now
It’s attainable Taissa’s different aspect might have come out in the evening and set the cabin on fireplace, and additionally it is attainable that she didn’t even know she was doing so. Maybe it occurred whereas she was asleep in a sleepwalking sort of state.
One other potential suspect is Van. Van has been recognized to be related to fireplace ever since the very starting of the present, and he or she reacted fairly surprisingly when Taissa requested who did it.
Additionally it is value noting that Van ran again into the cabin as it was burning after the ladies made it exterior, which may be very unusual.
Yet another minor element that factors to Van is that she had fireplace reflecting in her eyes in one in all Yellowjackets Season 3’s trailers.
The ultimate reply to who burned the cabin down will doubtless be revealed sooner or later in Season 3. Followers could have to attend fairly some time, as it’s a thriller that may very well be dragged out for the total season, however it will likely be answered sooner or later.
One star did tease what followers can count on in the coming episodes, notably an influence battle between two of the main characters.
New episodes of Yellowjackets premiere on Paramount+ with Showtime each Friday at midnight ET.
