Apologies for the delay, but enjoy our episode 7 breakdown!!

Both Tai and Shauna got their Van back this season.

I think Shauna meant that she kept Callie at arm’s length as in, NOT close. She was afraid she’d lose her too or that she was never real in the first case.

I don't think Shauna is smothering Callie. On the contrary, she's distant from her daughter.

I agree that if there is an antler queen, it's Shauna. The trauma of losing Jackie and the baby makes her cold and cruel. And she fulfills her desire for Jackie's life by taking leadership of the girls.

Idk why but I keep feeling like Walter is fooling Misty. Like I think he’s not as sweet and “in love” with her as she’s thinking he is. I think, like you said, he’s tied into Adam somehow rather it’s through friends or family. But I feel like he might be the one who figured out where the body parts were buried…. And I feel like that message she left on his phone is gonna come back and bite her in the ass.

I’d rather y’all post episodes 8 and 9 late than just skipping episode 8, by far you’re my favourite channel to come to after watching an episode! Edit: after just finishing ep 8 PLEASE do episode 8 it was just too good!!!!!

In historical accounts of retroactively diagnosed Wendigo psychosis, it has been reported that humans became possessed by the wendigo spirit, after being in a situation of needing food and having no other choice besides cannibalism. Also, wendigos derive from Canadian folklore during the WINTER phases normally.

The Coach's flashbacks are like somebody is changing the TV channel

Note to anyone and everyone: sensory deprivation tanks existed LONG BEFORE Stranger Things. In fact, there was a quite famous 1978 sci-fi/horror novel called Altered States (and a quite excellent, still relevant, corresponding 1980 movie adaptation directed by lovable wacko auteur Ken Russell) based around their potential to induce transcendent experiences and the horrifying possibilities therein. (This movie was clearly one of the many dominant 80's "influences" on Stranger Things, even though the specific FX they used to portray their tank sequences were stolen from, excuse me, "in homage to" FX sequences from a completely different and more recent film, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin.) Basically, nothing in Stranger Things is "from" Stranger Things. If you see it there, you can rest assured that it was first seen somewhere else.

I’ve had a feeling that Shauna has been the antler queen for awhile now. The way her eyes look when she is in those moments of power (like beating up Lottie and the whole minivan scenes) almost gives it away that she has and always will be the antler queen with that darkness in her.

I think that antler queen is none if the girls, but is the spirit of the forest. There was a statement in the opening of the first episode of season 2, I think it was Natalie speaking, she said something along the lines of ‘the wilderness was waiting for us to come along and befriend it’. The antler queen is a physical representation of the spirt of the woods. I think this is all leading to a shared delusion that the antler queen will come and show them how to survive and what to do; randomly hiding traps throughout the woods to capture food, just like pit girl in episode one. When we see shadows of antlers above Lottie, Ben, etc. I think it more so represents the wilderness gaining control and leading them to the ultimate goal of befriending the wilderness. Lotties delusion at the end of this episode indicated to me that she, Lottie, is not the antler queen. Why would she hallucinate herself like that? I do think Lottie has a stronger connection to the antler queen/the wilderness than anyone else, but it still wouldn’t make sense for her to hallucinate talking to herself like that.

Thank you for mentioning coach bens antlers.. I legit asked on twitter why nobody else has mentioned this.. or noticed it.. and sent the pic to my buddy before we watched this breakdown like if heavy spoilers catches it I’ll be happy! Haha 😂

Please don’t miss 8. I look forward to this every week! ❤

I have a feeling the antler queen is Natalie. During the feast of Jackie. She sat at the head of the table during the hallucination. Which is actually Jackie's feet. Natalie just doesn't remember being the antler queen.

I personally feel that season 1 was pretty much perfect, but this season mostly felt like filler to me. I really don’t feel as a viewer that we have gotten any answers this season.

I still think there's a chance that Javi died out in the wilderness and he was somehow brought back. Earlier in the season Travis saw his dead body but when he got to him it end up being a fox's corpse. So if Crystal shows back up somehow that would nail down that theory.

Can’t lie, misty was looking good in that blue outfit coming out the water 😂

I noticed during the reunion on Lottie’s campsite, the main characters were sitting around six candles. I’m thinking each candle represented one of them. There were two additional candles outside of their circle, which I’m assuming represents two other folks that came back from the wilderness. One being Travis, the other being someone they haven’t reveal to us yet. One candle may have even been shorter than the other five, the one in front of Van, representing her short life left to live. Not sure if this is real, though, or just the camera angle making it look shorter.

The queen of hearts chooses the antler queen who is then hunted by the group. If the antler queen survives the hunt, she chooses the next/deals next.

Things I feel quite strongly: 1) This isn’t a supernatural show - I know we drift back and forward on this, but I think it’s a show about people going weird and feral in the wilderness, then struggling to recover when they get back into reality because they had to pretend to be ‘normal’ again when they got back, but something had changed profoundly 2) Shauna is the Antler Queen - I agree with you here 100% - it’s the best arc for the show that the conflicted and nervous and depressed Shauna is actually the most terrifying and powerful of all of them 3) There’s someone else in the wilderness with them - we have this backstory about the house they’re in and no access point into finding out about it unless there’s someone who was there when it happened whose flashbacks we can observe. Plus we have Javi living for months in the wilderness and Crystal’s missing body. If I had to put money on a story arc it would be that there’s a woman who has been living alone in the forest for years, has completely lost her mind, presents herself as an antler queen and then is eventually killed by Shauna who takes over her role

I need to know more about Javi I really hope we get some answers in regards to him like where he was and how he survived. It kinda seems like the other characters just like.. don't really care about finding out anymore lol bro survived for a long time completely on his own in the freezing cold. Finding our how he did that could possibly help the whole group survive but it doesn't seem like they think that way

Hard not to notice the Morse code, fits perfectly with Misty’s personality and hobbies. However, I truly hope she didn’t watch Twin Peaks as a kid, that show was wild. As for the song Lightning Crashes, the band is called Live, pronounced līv (long i).

I think you got it backwards. Shauna didn't want Callie, she was a last ditch attempt to save her marriage to Jeff, and she had to keep pretending that she was a perfectly normal mom while intentionally keeping her distance from her. After her stillbirth out in the woods and the painful loss she experienced, she didn't want to go through that pain again, but decided that having the typical markers of adulthood and parenting would help her to fit in, and move past the trauma, all while being absolutely petrified that she would mentally, emotionally, or physically harm Callie. In the end it ended up damaging her daughter anyway, because Callie grew up in a household with no boundaries, no curfews, no parental surveillance, so she took that as the sign that her mother doesn't care for or love her. Then Shauna tries to reclaim her youth by sleeping with Adam, getting to relive all the exhilaration of being a teen again, but ends up killing him, out of self-preservation and instinct, emblematically killing the last piece of her childhood innocence. I have the greatest sympathy for Shauna in the whole series. She was the lackey friend, someone who always subjugated herself to suit the people around her, and once she lost Jackie and the baby, her entire worldview shifts - she has to be self-reliant, ruthless, and unfeeling, otherwise she will die out in the woods. Her brutal beatdown of Lottie was brutal almost like that scene in Fight Club where Ed Norton's character beats the hell out of Jared Leto's face because he "wanted to destroy something beautiful." She went apeshit on Lottie because she had no other outlet for her rage, with all that pent up anger over the visions of Lottie taking her son from her arms and feeding on him. She wasn't going to be sidelined again, and Lottie allowed her to vent all her pain at once, because she said "we need you," as in the ruthless version of Shauna who doesn't hide herself away. In that moment, the real Shauna emerges. Once they were rescued, she had to shelve that part of herself in order to be accepted into society again, hiding her true nature from the people around her so they wouldn't see her as some monster. She can't tell anyone, not even her husband and daughter, about the horrors she endured, and all these years later the memories and trauma are resurfacing. That "self care" session was heartbreaking, because it takes her right back to the early days after the plane crash, as she's the one to hold the knife and slit the throat of the deer. When they pass her the goat kid, it's a double whammy, because she assumes that the cult wants her to kill it because she has that ability to suppress her empathy to take a life, but then she also has been tasked with looking after a baby, like the one she lost, but she treats it the same way as she parented Callie, leaving it alone tied to a tree where it manages to chew through the rope and walk off. So Shauna is devastated that she feels she can't perform this maternal duty like other women, and tries to return it to the barn, telling the cult member that she is mentally prepared to stab it if asked, but she can't have it die while he's in her care. She would rather be the one wielding the knife than sit by and watch as someone she cared for dies. To get really deep on this, people tend to have children because they have some hope and optimism - kids are supposed to be the pure versions of ourselves, we see ourselves in them when they're young. This may be why Shauna cannot confront motherhood, because she hasn't felt hope or optimism since before the crash. She's frightened that she's messing it up, but she doesn't fuss over the kid either, just like she avoided Callie. Lottie tells her that caring for another animal brings "clarity for having to care for something so innocent." Shauna never found that clarity after her stillbirth, and still couldn't find her hope after Callie was born. Shauna tells Lottie "I think something is broken," because she never felt relaxed or able to give herself that hope. And the scene ends with Shauna in tears telling Lottie, "I just can't do it." That was her acknowledgement of her true nature, the part of her she discovered in the wilderness, and the part of her that she hid for 25 years. So that reunion scene at the end was cathartic for her, because she can finally embrace the person she truly is - not a mother or wife, not the best friend, not a homemaker. She's something more primal, more violent, more savage. Personally I believe that she takes on the Antler Queen title and not Lottie. Lottie didn't become a provider for the group - she can't hunt, but she does have visions and premonitions. Shauna is the one to wield the knife.

Great catch on the roots at the cliff looking similar to the picture Javi drew. This area has to have significance

"Lightning Crashes" triggered teen Shauna to punch Misty. Adult Shauna said she has repressed memories, and proceeds to dance to the same song at the reunion. I think she may have completely forgotten about the trauma of losing her son.

Am I crazy or is there a woman in the roots in Javi's drawing??

did anybody notice that theme song was a little warped ,glitchy and an even the videos that they’re showing in there was more glitchy than usual or that was just me

I talked about the two queens theory like 2 episodes before that Shawna and Lottie are having this baby 🍼 Shawna represent the bad person trying to look good in society and Lottie being the good person trying to look bad under the hood as all charitable person look.

Did you notice in Misty’s vision we see visuals of the Axe used to take Ben’s leg and the needle she used to posion the reporter. If you go back both are in the musical number as cartoon drawings of the axe and the needle.

Javis friend has crystals body and thats why javi has awkwardly been bought back to not do anything but say he has a friend.

Also I'm really hoping with them finding Adams remains there is a reveal that he's someone else. I think they really need to put a good Twist on the Adam storyline since some people are getting a little bored with it

Those Caligula references might be more layered than you think, depending on how up to date the writers are on his history. Most modern historians think that Caligula was a victim of that age old adage "the victors write the histories". There was nothing particularly damning written about him during his time as Emperor, the juicy (probably not true) stuff was all written after his assasination.

From + Yellowjackets = Lost. Like literally, Lost. Once you found your way home, it is not home.

Random fact: the band Live's name is pronounced like the adjective, not the verb, even though it started out the other way around. Critics and fans kept mispronouncing their name so they just went with it.

was waiting for your video, you do my favorite breakdowns

I've been patiently waiting for your episode 8 breakdown 😭❤

Another great breakdown Jared👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Strolls back in like captain Barbosa. I died 💀 lol I enjoy your episode reviews so much!

Ok Jared, you been off all season and I been rocking wit ya but dammit the therapist and roommate look nothing alike! Lottie is an unreliable narrator, we can believe nothing from her pov throughout the show.

Lottie beat up scene seems like a nod to Fight Club, Angel Face getting destroyed. Also i think whoever has antlers behind them in a shot seems to be in a dark spot. Maybe darkness focuses on them or something not sure.

15:46 Coach Scott clearly said in an earlier episode that he was having trouble committing to his boyfriend and ultimately chose to accompany the team to nationals instead of moving in with Paul. So, in my opinion these experiences with Paul were not memories. These are something different, perhaps they are escapist fantasies, a series of hunger-induced hallucinations, or perhaps something supernatural.

Excellent theory time!

love all your theories! so pumped to see where things go the last couple of episodes! I would really love to see a big reveal of the ritualist hooded figures from season 1, I like what you're theorizing here

I need to know more, ThanksMuch !

Lol...Shauna/Tyson comparison is pure gold.

This episode was hilarious and emotional at the same time. 5:24 o I remember that show perfect comparison. You also read my mind at 5:36 this scene was batshit insane when I first saw it I thought I was watching a different show.

Fingers crossed you guys work out ep 8 coverage - I love your vids about this show!

Thanks for the info

Thanks. Awesome

Could. Not. Wait, for this. Didn't even realise how much I was missing in the show

I still think Lottie is AQ not really a queen but a high priestess. The antlers framing different people is showing that the spirit of the wilderness is taking hold of them. Lottie seems to be the one who interprets her visions and such for the rest of them. I think they all, at least for some time, will believe they must kill their friends to appease the spirit of the wilderness. The AQ visions in the present are reminding them of their "beliefs" and rituals from the past. I think there are others out there too. Hard to believe Javi could have been on his own and Crystal couldn't have walked away. The symbols on the trees are there for a reason. I think Ben's BF will be the one who eventually finds them. Too much screen time to never see him again.

thanks again!! :)

No I need an ep 8 breakdown!

This season was good not as good as season one but it had a lot of emotional and character insights even though it wasn’t as plot driven. I’ve enjoyed your breakdowns and thoughts on the happenings in this show!

I feel like they’re just making things up as they go now. The first season had such great structure but season 2 has been slow and nothing is really happening. I hope we get more before it ends

I think the girl who draws the queen of hearts to be killed is Mari. And Gen is the pit girl

Lottie stood back from Shauna during their exchange about Bruce and Callie. She wants to forgive and be open to helping Shauna to heal but she remembers the beat down she willingly took from Shauna. Shauna when talking about Callie means that she is distant from Callie and only has a superficial relationship with her because she fears Callie will die or that she’s not even real. I think Callie perhaps reminds her of Jackie a bit and from her trauma. There a huge element of things not being real that has always ran through the show. Lots of references of “not real” now we are seeing lots of glitches the theme song is slowing down. I have said it before and I will say it again I really hope that when this show comes to an end that it’s not a dream, or hallucination. It’s set up pretty good for this. The Xanax or Valium Jackie give Shauna on the plane. She could wake up and the plane lands at Nationals or it could all be in Lottie’s head. I hope it’s not something like that.

This episode made me feel vindicated for obsessively learning morse code in my late teens.

They brought back an entitity from another dimension. Calling it now.

I think maybe the “camera” in the wilderness is more of a metaphor that the wilderness is always watching them

God, I hope there isn’t a multiverse of different timelines for the characters. That would be so disappointing

This is too good, I NEED MORE!!!

I really don’t think Shauna could be the antler queen because Lottie seems to be very traumatised by the character (all the visions and hallucinations), but when reunited with Shauna she didn’t seem affected all that much. Idk maybe I’m missing something but if Shauna was really the antler queen I think they’d all act a completely different way towards her.

I totally agree with you that this show is about Shauna. To me she’s the main character. This is the best show ever in my opinion. I love it.

The funny thing is there was an actual blizzard in 1996. I remember being snowed in and it paralyzed the entire east coast. I wonder if it reached the area where the girls were stranded making their winter in the wilderness more severe.

Lightning Crashes is what happened to Shauna last episode

Yay thank you haha

THE BEST analysis of Yellowjackets I’ve seen on KZfaq, grade A+!!! HOWEVER, as far as the writers of the show, season 2 has been a COMPLETE MISS, a grade of G, for GARBAGE. Finding out there’s only 9 episodes lowered it from an F. During season 1 my entire family watched the show. 1 out of 4 still watching is a huge spike lost in viewers and will only lower until the show’s cancelled. Maybe Netflix can help its ratings, but I’m canceling Showtime in 2 weeks.

Final reveal, Tai has organised everything in the present timeline to sacrifice them to cure her cancer

I think it’s no antler queen but remember when Travis was getting chased on doomcoming? He was seen as the stag. So I think whoever the horns are on is next to be hunted. Coach is next

The band is called Live as in “Alive”

The Anchorman clip 👌🏾🤌🏾🔥

Im so late, but unless Pit Girl is revealed at the end of this season, its gotta be either Mari or I think its a random hiker that they kidnapped and killed. This is why she was genuinely scared and seemed confused AND didnt k ow about the pit.

I keep hearing theories that there is another survivor, but didn’t we see the Antler Queen and six others sitting around her? Isn’t that the six adult women and Travis?

All the way back from season 1, I never thought Lottie to be the Antler Queen as she's more of a spiritual aid - whilst yes she did create the 'belief' cult of the wilderness she will either step down or from what we've seen in the promo of ep 8 Shauna might step up in Lottie's absence. We've seen countless times how Shauna is the provider or the one to gut animals and divvy out rationed meat, she's desensitised so much that when it came down to killing Adam she handled it pretty well - I know it was also shock and grief of killing someone she loved. But think about it, no one told or even gave the notion that Bruce (goat) had to die Shauna was the one to be so adamant on that fact that she didn't want to kill something she grew attached to. She killed the rabbit back in season 1 with ease, she constantly either takes joy from the act of possibly killing or like she said when butchering Adam's body up it's like a 'f-ed up gross bike' that you never seem to forget how to ride. Death follows Shauna and maybe in a way that might be why she fears loving her family when she thinks of her past and what she did to survive. I don't see any of the others being the Antler Queen since Van is starting to have some discourse with it but Tai is finally accepting it, Misty is too deranged and in your face to be her, if the other yellowjacket does turn out to be Akilah I only imagine her to be complicit to the cult for survival. But I do like the other theory circling around that when someone draws the queen card they're not only that hunt's Antler Queen but the next sacrifice and maybe that's why Lottie is so scared because she was meant to be the next sacrifice but they got saved before that could happen.

I think the idea that Lottie is the nefarious mastermind has been greatly undermined by the last few episodes of the season.

Nobody screwed up hiding the remains. Misty said it wouldn’t matter if they were found because there are no identifying features - she cremated to head and hands

Please please please don't miss episode 8!! This is the best recap channel I have found

The water tank scene was fascinatingly odd and quirky AF. I was like, ummmm… did Misty just visit The Black Lodge?

Seven survivors that we know of return to civilization, therefore it is safe to say that one of the seven is the antler queen dressed in white. Lots of theories out there say that they dont really exist as in one of the seven. No spoilers from me here but i agree with the conclusion of this season.

Walter broke into Misty's place after dropping her off and found out where she hid the body (bodies?)

Best episode yet

I’ve been saying it was shauna since day one

We want Silo Breakdown, from Apple TV

I feel like Yellowjackets is taking influence from Jordan Peele's Us (with the doppleganger, mirror, otherworld people) and the videogame Until Dawn (haunted woods, mines and Crystal potentially falling through a mineshaft)

18:17... Javi's Drawing Could Maybe Be Flames.🤔

Ive been theorizing that shauna has been the antler queen since the beginning of this season. Shes the one that actually got the group to come together. Shes completely unhinged , and also shares no care for taking a life. Also, when they were all doing therapy shauna felt like she was going to kill the goat the following day. Last but jot least, the most damning piece of evidence too me was season 1 when shauna met with taissa to discuss the reporter; How Shauna ORDERED Tai to get down to the bottom of it , and to take care of the situation . Tai doesn’t take orders from anyone , so its a little irry.

At the end of the first (and only season) of 1899, it's revealed they were in a computer simulation the whole time. At the end of the movie "Don't Worry, Darling" it's revealed they were in a computer simulation the whole time. Sometimes, I worry the Yellowjackets are in a simulation the whole time.

In Ep 6, there was also a perfect shot aligning him with antlers :/

Nice video, 100% crystal is gonna back, no way her body just vanished

bro i feel the exact same way about misty lmao

Dream Girl Evil is about how men put women on a pedestal only to then throw them down. "Did I disappoint you? Did mommy make you sad? Do I at least remind you Of every girl that made you mad? Make me perfect, make me your fantasy..."

Just putting it out there in the flash trailer if meta humans weren't around and supergirl was a prisoner who started the beacon for general zod

It sounded to me more like Shauna didn't allow herself to be close to or love Callie or Jeff, because she was so afraid that something would happen and she would lose either or both of them like she lost her son. Shauna does NOT seem like a helicopter parent, like, at all. I also think Shauna believed she would be forced to kill the goat because she thinks that's something a cult would do, more than it being related to her wilderness experience.

When you are looking at the roots of the tree in the pan out of the cliff, look to the left. There looks like A CAVE.

Did anyone else notice the French horn throughout the episode? I'm sure it hasn't been in any before this.

What's the likelihood the opening scene of S1E1 and the pit girl is from "present day"? Which will be revealed to us at the end of the series.

They are all parts of the AQ that's why they need to be together for that power/force to be released.

nooooo I think episode 8 is gonna be the craziest. cover it please, i don't care if is late but pleaaaaaaase