What Occurs to Shauna’s Child on Yellowjackets?

In season one in every of “Yellowjackets,” followers had been shocked to be taught that Shauna (Sophie Nélisse as a teen and Melanie Lynskey as an grownup), whereas trapped along with her teammates within the woods, is pregnant. Earlier than leaving to what was meant to be a visit to nationals, she had intercourse a number of occasions with Jeff, the boyfriend of her finest pal Jackie (Ella Purnell). Within the current day, Jeff (performed by Warren Kole as an grownup) and Shauna are married and have a teen daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins). However Callie was born in 2004, which implies she’s not the child Shauna is pregnant with within the woods in 1996. And we all know that it takes 19 months for the “Yellowjackets” to be saved, which implies Shauna was now not pregnant when the rescue lastly occurs.

Since “Yellowjackets” tends to be critically demented, followers have nervous about what is going to occur to the child. The very first episode of “Yellowjackets” teased that the misplaced group will resort to cannibalism, and Shauna even had stress goals that the child got here out as a rooster, able to eat. May the ladies presumably. . . eat the child? The present’s solid addressed that principle forward of season two.

In a March 2 interview with Leisure Weekly, Tawny Cypress, who performs grownup Taissa, confirmed that nobody will eat the child. “They are not going to eat the child,” she mentioned, whereas including that different ugly issues — like her household’s beheaded canine — are “undoubtedly” nonetheless on the desk for the sequence. Co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco added in the identical function, “If we do our jobs proper, the consuming of an individual won’t be probably the most transgressive factor that these younger ladies do within the wilderness.”

So what occurs to the child? Followers have a lot of theories, in fact. Most likely most probably is that Shauna experiences some sort of being pregnant loss. She’s malnourished, confused, and never receiving any prenatal care. Followers expect one thing subversive to occur with this plot line, however simply because Shauna survived a airplane crash doesn’t suggest she’s not affected by extra widespread traumas.

Then there are the much less doubtless choices. If the child survived the woods, did Shauna determine to let somebody undertake the child after she was rescued? Or did somebody take it away from her? Grownup Shauna and Jeff have by no means talked about the kid in the course of the present — although Jeff seemingly is aware of the being pregnant occurred since he learn all of Shauna’s secret journals.

In the meantime, some viewers have some significantly ugly theories. May the child be utilized by the Antler Queen (Lottie, performed by Courtney Eaton as a teen and Simone Kessell as an grownup) as a sacrifice to the forest?

It appears Shauna’s being pregnant will finish a while throughout season two. No matter occurred, she nonetheless carries the ache of it along with her.

“Yellowjackets” season two streams Friday, March 24, and airs on Sunday, March 26, on Showtime.