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Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for Yellowjackets season 3!
As Yellowjackets season 3 comes to an end, showrunners Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson weigh in on how Taissa and Shauna’s bond will change going into a potential season 4.
When speaking to The Hollywood Reporter following the release of Yellowjackets season 3 finale, Lyle and Nickerson weighed in on the importance of Taissa and Shauna’s relationship. While Lyle explained how the pair’s development parallels one another, Nickerson teased that the two survivors still had plenty of development to find themselves individually in ways that will reshape their dynamic, particularly as Taissa plans to finally take Shauna down with Misty’s help. Check out the showrunner’s response below:
Lyle: I think that memory is an incredibly powerful tool for the human psyche, both in its ability to take things and learn for them, but also to push things away. We really tried to lay breadcrumbs for three seasons now that the past 25 years, what we’re seeing in the past is not necessarily how they remember it. They’ve got a really strong wall that they’ve built in various ways, whether it’s Tai and her ambition and looking forward, and Shauna and her stasis and just laying very low and repressing everything. We really wanted to get to a point where we were breaking down all of those layers and breaking down all of those walls. They’ve said many times over the course of the three seasons, like, “Oh, I forgot that” or “I didn’t remember that.” We wanted to bring them to a place where they’re starting to truly remember everything, and that’s not just about what happened, but it’s about who they are. I think it will be very exciting moving forward to see their truest selves start to interact with each other and, again, it’s about survival. It’s not just about survival in the wilderness up against hunger and the cold and the elements. It’s protecting yourself, protecting your family, protecting your secrets, and survival is very much still a problem for them in the present day. And I think that will be an increasing problem for them in the present day as we move forward, which is very fun for us as storytellers.
Nickerson: There was a certain amount of careful design as we’re reaching the pilot in the past of wanting to have that loop and that return getting closed in on the present-day storyline as well. You have Shauna reading the journals in the pilot, you have her returning to writing here. You have that scene between Shauna and Taissa in the diner [in the pilot]. We shot that in L.A. [for the pilot], but scoured Vancouver to find something that could be reminiscent of it, including the little jukebox on the table. Shauna and Taissa has been such a core relationship. There has been such an understanding between those two characters. Even when they’re at odds, their conflict has felt different than it has for everybody else, and we’re signaling that we actually don’t fully understand the depths of that relationship as an audience. Because, ultimately, a relationship is not a static thing. It is always evolving, it’s always changing. The things in the past and in the present are always shifting their meaning.
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Source: THR
Yellowjackets
7/10
- Release Date
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November 14, 2021
- Network
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Showtime, Paramount+ with Showtime
- Showrunner
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Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Jonathan Lisco
- Directors
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Benjamin Semanoff, Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Deepa Mehta, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Liz Garbus, Scott Winant, Eva Sørhaug, Jamie Travis
- Writers
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Liz Phang, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa