This Yellowjackets Theory Makes Show Much Darker Than Fans Ever Expected
There are many mysteries in Yellowjackets, but maybe the viewers does not even want to know the solution to this one.
As those who watched the first season of the series will remember, Shauna finds herself pregnant after getting lost in the woods with other girls.
But that's about it. Oddly enough, in the story unfolding in the present day, no one mentions Shauna's child. It can't be her daughter Callie – her age doesn't fit the timeline.
So the fate of the child is not yet clear. And the more interesting is how dark the story the authors came up with for the baby.
Will it be born alive and healthy? Will it become a victim of rituals? Will it be kidnapped and raised somewhere far away from his mother? And why didn't Jeff, who read his wife's hidden diaries, ever talk about this subject?
Get ready for a theory that many fans of the show suggest, because it's even crazier than the ear-eating of the first episode.
Since the first step toward cannibalism has already been taken, it is logical to assume that the characters will continue down this path.
And if the truth about Shauna's child is still being stubbornly hidden, as if something terrible had happened to it, then the fans have put the two facts together and come to a frightening conclusion – Shauna's child became a subject of cannibalism.
Shocking, but quite in the spirit of the series.
Fans even found no less odious confirmation of their theory in the name of the Misty's bird.
"I know we've talked about Misty's bird named Caligula before, but I have to bring this up. I did a brief search of "Caligula," the Roman Emperor, and one of his crimes was cannibalism. Oh, also blackmail, incest, and murder. He got his sister pregnant and then ate the baby," Reddit user ItsOk_ItsAlright noticed.
It looks a lot like an Easter egg that foreshadows future events. However, the actress who plays Misty, Christina Ricci, denied such an interpretation.
"I believe that Caligula is named Caligula because Caligula is someone who has been maligned historically, but is actually not what that person is on the surface," Ricci commented in her interview with Elle.
The fact that the bird's name has nothing to do with cannibalism (although it would be very symbolic) does not negate the possibility of a cruel fate for Shauna's child.
Fans hope that this mystery will be solved in the second season. The second episode of Yellowjackets will be available on April 2.