Forget cannibalism. Forget the wilderness. The real horror in Yellowjackets Season 3? How easily power corrupts — and how much they all miss it.
Here's the uncomfortable truth: Yellowjackets doesn't just blur the line between survival and savagery — it dances on it, laughs, and then sets it on fire. Season 3's finale ties up a few major questions (yes, we now know who Pit Girl is), but it also yanks the rug out from under everything we thought we knew about these women. Especially Shauna.
She's not just broken. She's reborn.
Let's rewind. Because if you blinked, you might've missed how the crown was passed — and what it really means when someone becomes the Antler Queen.
Pit Girl No More: Mari's Fate Revealed
For two seasons, fans have dissected that pilot episode like it was The Zapruder Film. Who was Pit Girl — the hunted teen who meets a gruesome end in the snowy woods?
Turns out, it's Mari. Not Hannah. The writers flipped the gameboard in a brutal bait-and-switch, thanks to Shauna's rule-breaking during the Queen of Hearts draw. You could call it cheating. Or maybe fate. Either way, Mari falls — and the tribe feasts.
And that's when the veil drops.
Shauna's the Antler Queen. But here's the kicker: it's not just a costume. It's a role she embraces with eerie calm. In her, the savagery has calcified into strategy. Into ritual. Into power.
Lottie's Shocking End: A Death Misunderstood
Lottie's death isn't a sacrifice. It's an accident, wrapped in rage. Callie — Shauna's daughter — shoves her during a confrontation over a tape. It's raw. Human. No masks or antlers. Just generational trauma with a side of stairs.
But even in death, Lottie's influence lingers. She was a spiritual anchor for the group — maybe delusional, maybe divine. Without her, the future feels unmoored. Which raises the question: What happens when belief dies but the rituals live on?
Tai Eats a Heart. Shauna Eats the Truth.
The finale's most disturbing moment? Not the cooking of Mari. Not even the crown. It's Tai — stoic, rational Tai — ripping out Van's heart and eating it.
Why? Vengeance? Madness? Some twisted loyalty? Doesn't matter. The effect is the same: the past is bleeding into the present, and no one is safe.
Shauna's response is telling. She doesn't recoil. She doesn't scream. She processes. Adapts. Moves forward.
Because she remembers.
A Note. A Realization. A Journal Entry That Haunts.
In a quiet moment — the kind this show rarely gives us — Shauna finds a long-lost note. Melissa's words are simple: “Forgive yourself.”
But that's not what hits hardest. What does? Her journal. The line she writes:
“I was a warrior. I was a f***ing queen.”
That's not guilt. That's longing.
What if the worst part of what happened in the wilderness isn't the trauma… but how much they enjoyed it?
And that's the brilliance — and terror — of Yellowjackets. It doesn't just explore what people do to survive. It asks what they become when they thrive in that survival. Shauna's not running from her past anymore. She's chasing it. Reclaiming it.
Season 4 might bring closure. But based on this finale? It'll come with blood.
Would you wear the antlers? Or run from them? Tell us below.
