No, this is a game, a ritual…the purpose involves enjoyment. And whence the nightgown?Įpisode 4 shows us Natalie effectively killing a deer to feed the group, so out the window goes any thought that they’ll need to practice cannibalism to survive. Regardless, we are left to wonder how this all functions, as it also seems to involve blindfolds and a marking on the head.
Maybe Jackie survives and donates this totem, though I am still inclined to think she’ll die earlier. So perhaps it is a game and the necklace is some kind of marker? Other shots in the credits show the girls forming a circle, as though some voting or other selection process were occurring. So is this someone else? Why does she seem bewildered? She was wearing Jackie’s necklace but the hair color doesn’t match. So we can’t help but think of the slit throat of the girl at the beginning of the pilot. In another shot we see Jackie, on the soccer field, drawing her finger across her throat. In Episode 4, Natalie’s dead father tells her “it’s waiting for us,” so what is it? Is there a connection to how she has proverbial blood on her hands, as though it is some punishment that awaits, or is this simply a manifestation of the fear of death stemming from her own psyche?
#DEER MAN OF THE DARK WOODS UNMASKED CODE#
Perhaps it is playing with the hobo code and some sign of danger? I can’t help but draw some connection to the recurring symbols-on trees, the floor of the cabin attic, the postcard-though I also don’t have much of an interpretation of this symbol to offer at the moment. Being a phantasm wouldn’t make him any less real. Alternately, we might speculate that he is a vision that only appears to Taissa-some indication of her creeping madness, not actually seen but also imagined as her nana cried out in fear. It’s a cool trick the creators of Yellowjackets played, as on a second viewing this image jumped out to my consciousness and frankly terrified me a bit.īut so, if he is in the woods and we take this seriously then it is a strong indication of a supernatural element in Yellowjackets. His first appearance diegetically was later in Episode 3, as the young Ty attended to her dying grandmother, so we might not have noticed his presence the first time we watched these titles. The most significant thing is simply that he is there, shown in the woods. In many ways, my starting point was in noticing the Man With No Eyes at the end of the opening credits. I love opening title sequences and care more about interpreting their thematic significance than I do about finding clues, though I will be doing both. I can’t help but obsess over the details, but don’t care a lot if I end up being right or wrong. I find myself somewhere in the middle on the question. Some might prefer to just go along for the ride and not engage in this kind of theorizing, which I totally respect. Nonetheless, there are a number of shots included on the grainy VHS footage-type montage that seem worthy of discussion, so I am going to take them and jump right into the deep end of speculation. Regardless, my intention here is to set myself to interpreting what we see in these frames, noting that of course there is no guarantee that what we see will happen in the show, just as the poster promo doesn’t necessarily mean Jackie will get a nosebleed or have a bee land on her face. So one might even argue that these episodes were before the beginning, and it is with Episode 3 that we’ve really begun.
The pilot hits with “ Today” and Episode 2 with “ Mother Mother,” right where opening credits would go.
That this was withheld until then is itself noteworthy.
#DEER MAN OF THE DARK WOODS UNMASKED SERIES#
The following focuses on the opening credits/title sequence of Yellowjackets as it appears in S1E3 and S1E4, and includes spoilers through Episode 4 of the series (“ Bear Down“)Īs of this writing, I have seen the first four episodes of Yellowjackets and have been thinking about the opening title sequence since it appeared in Episode 3.
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