The girls are pushed to extremes in Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 2: Edible Complex as they struggle to survive.
The authors have discovered a horrifying yet non-sinister way to depict the action after spending the entirety of Season One leaving us wondering when we’ll see the group resort to the inevitable.
They decide to burn Jackie’s body after Taissa calls Shauna out in front of the group on Jackie and they have given it some thought. Furthermore, as Taissa points out, it was something that needed to be done weeks ago. Peace is due Jackie’s spirit.
In classic YellowJackets form, the forces at play suddenly intervene by throwing a mountain of snow on Jackie as the girls sleep outside and Jackie’s body burns to crispion just feet from them. Instead of just burning to ash, Jackie’s body is cooked to the ideal roasting temperature as a result, emitting a scent potent enough to awaken the females.
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As a group, they circle the body and alternately look at each other, wondering who will take the initiative. Shauna eventually grabs her knife and starts the hunger-fueled feast. As a coping technique, the girls then picture themselves as royalty at a feast fit for kings and queens.
Even if she was first compelled to do it, I adore how Shauna starts the feast and the initial burning of the body. That explains a great deal of Shauna’s anguish as an adult and the reasons she is continuously looking for methods to keep Jackie at least somewhat a part of her life.
The authors expertly managed to retain the situation’s tone of grim and oppressive without making it overtly vulgar. Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson methodically planned out violent scenarios and came up with a strategy for making their point without completely shocking the audience.
Yet, it’s safe to assume that the girls’ ritualistic and cannibalistic practices won’t remain as subdued as the show goes on based on the series’ opening sequence in the first season.
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I can’t promise, though, that I won’t dream of the girls gorging on and dissecting Jackie’s body. It still seems weird and uncomfortable, even after it has been toned down. The selection and treatment of the next victim make me wonder if my stomach can take it.
I’ll always be appreciative that they omitted the images of them tearing Jackie’s face to pieces.
Even though there have only been two episodes, I’m already persuaded that Sophie Nlisse and Jasmin Savoy Brown should start their Emmy campaigns since they are performing this season.
We have a more in-depth understanding of Lottie’s life after being rescued in the world of grownups. Her parents subject her to invasive testing and electroshock therapy, which unsurprisingly finally causes her to command her own following.
While Taissa deals with her mind gradually disintegrating as her fugue condition increasingly takes over, Misty is still looking for Natalie. But in all honesty, Callie’s tenacity in trying to discover what happened to Adam is one of the more thrilling elements of Edible Complex.
Even if Callie’s plot may not be the most exciting of those in play, it is nevertheless intriguing. Shauna has frequently expressed her unfavorable views about Callie, including the fact that she doesn’t particularly like her and that Callie consistently rejects her when she makes suggestions for plans.
Their relationship is so far from being on a level that is appropriate that it almost feels foreboding. Callie can end up becoming collateral damage if she digs farther into Adam’s death than she originally anticipated.
Random Ideas:
- Jeff has read Shauna s journals, which means it s valid that he d know about them eating Jackie s body, and I can t help but think that s true love. He stayed with Shauna despite knowing she ate his high school sweetheart. It also makes me curious to learn when he figures the tidbit out. Did he know before marrying her, or was it a dark secret discovered after years into the marriage?
- Natalie faking a bloody piece of clothing and claiming it s Javi s is one of her more morally corrupt moments and will certainly come back to bite her in the behind. Besides not following Lottie s mysticism, her lie likely causes him to break communication with her after their rescue.
- I am curious and ecstatic to learn how Lottie and Shauna s relationship will evolve throughout the season. It s evident Lottie will play a significant factor in Shauna s life as she copes with Jackie s death and the birth of her child