
Spoilers below for those who aren’t caught up on Yellowjackets’ latest freaky shenanigans.
The further Yellowjackets viewers get from the show’s first victim, the pilot’s colloquially monikered Pit Girl, the closer we ostensibly get to finally learning whose theories about her identity were right, and whose were pure gobbl(otti)edygook the whole time. But rather than continuing to focus on the “who,” I think now is the time to go back and refocus our attention on some of the “whys.” In particular, why things had to get so gnarly and bloody, which has now taken on an advanced context midway through Season 2. Let’s break it/her/whatever down!