Yellowjackets - Finale - Took a Cultish Twisted Turn - and I'm Here for It!

this post contains spoilers,

Episode after episode the big bad has finally been revealed, and in a shocking new twist: Lottie Matthews. The empathic girl that could still be alive and manipulating a new pack of vulnerable people or survivors. Let's face it, if she had this superpower ability before the crash she would have been the leader and not Jackie. Yet out there in the forest, Lottie has tapped into some serious voodoo magic that nine times out of ten uses blood and sacrifice to do its bidding. In fact, she had us all fooled, I give her that. Seriously, there was something really dulcet about her. But as time progressed her sweet nature transformed into a sour, bear-slaying, while spilling eerie riddles. She's a witch man and she's casting spells and not the good kind either

Image credited to Showtime.

Speaking of Jackie, what a way to end her character. And it was brilliant if I'm being honest. There was nothing more heartbreaking than Shauna's cry for her best friend Jackie, just seeing her there frozen to the death put the show on my top list of unexpected endings. Honestly, I thought they were going to chase her down, as we saw on the first episode, and gobble her down like yesterday's leftovers. But no. Jackie didn't want to be around the girls anymore, especially after that night of weirdness, and the fact that Shauna isn't her little minion anymore. Yet her death was tragic. Poetic. And I would have loved for them to keep her around just a little longer for that added tension that she brought to each episode.

To not overcrowd this post, here are the total breakdowns of what we got out of the finale. Keep in mind, there are still a lot of questions not answered.

1. Misty is more than just cunning, she's a blood-thirsty killer and a part of Lottie's cult.
2. More sinister things happen out there that meets the eye - just ask Nat who tried to off herself before a group of freakish-looking cult followers took her away.
3. Shauna is haunted by Jackie and is living a life of guilt.
4. Taissa may be a part of the cult, too, as down in her home of darkness she has a voodoo shrine of offerings ( her dog's head is one of them ) to a god not even mentioned yet. And then with her malevolent smile at the end after she won the race confirms that the forest still has a hold on her.
5. Who was Adam, anyway?
6. Antler Queen is . . .

Image credited to Showtime.

Lottie.