Yellowjackets had one of its best episodes, aired recently and many fans are still reflecting on the events that unfurled.
Three main characters, Sophie Nélisse’s Shauna, Liv Hewson’s Van, and Keeya King’s Akilah. faced deep hallucinations for a longer period in the season three episode, Them’s the Brakes.
In Yellowjackets, these three suffer from horrific visions: Akilah has a strange meeting with a llama; Van is horrified by the idea of being burned alive in a cabin; and Shauna is seen swimming toward a child, apparently the one she lost.
Jonathan Lisco, the co-showrunner and director of the episode, provided details on how these unsettling scenes were picturized.
Lisco was asked about why he choose these three people in particular for the terrifying but captivating episode in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“You have all the characters on the board and frankly, I think we could have taken any of them through that hallucinatory sequence and mined it for a lot of great story,” Lisco stated, adding that Akilah being the child of nature was perfect for “subversion of her preconceptions about what is good about the wilderness.”
He added, however, that Van, who nearly died in the second episode of the entire series, consistently acts as though the past is unimportant. But “have they moved on?” the director asked. Therefore, having them feel as though they had perished once more in a cabin was ideal.
Shauna lost her baby, and now she sees a “boy on the banks of the lake, swims toward him but is only getting further away.” Her situation is too awful.
