

“With the bear, there’s this ambiguity of, ‘Is this one of her crazy moments, or is something else going on?’” Courtney Eaton, who plays Lottie, tells Bustle. Cue a giant bear walking out of the forest, which Lottie calmly walks up to and stabs just as they’re all on the brink of starvation. After a terrifying homecoming dance - during which Lottie and Shauna nearly killed Travis while high on mushrooms - Lottie tells everyone that they won’t be hungry for long. Though the girls initially dismissed her powers of premonition as a symptom of her mental illness, the finale shows their opinions starting to shift. We don’t get a complete answer to that question in the Season 1 finale, but we do get some clarity about who leads them down this dark path: the Antler Queen previewed at the start of the show is definitely Lottie. Showtime’s Yellowjackets is full of mysteries, but one looms above them all: how did the Yellowjackets go from trying to survive in the woods to forming a cannibalistic cult? Spoilers ahead for the Yellowjackets Season 1 finale.
