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Part of the fun of Yellowjackets has been all the speculation surrounding its many alluring, harrowing mysteries. The show is centered on a core question: How do these teens get out of the Canadian tundra? Each episode has given fans a new clue to chew on—as well as new questions to start asking themselves. It’s all led to a fervent fan community on places like Reddit, where viewers have been sharing their various theories since the series first premiered in December 2021.
Sometimes these theories are completely out of left field, reaching for the wildest possible answer to every question. Sometimes they sound incredibly on the money—which is extra fun, because it’s always nice to see someone get proven right. The show’s actors and creators have gotten in on the whole theory shebang, discussing them in interviews, while the Yellowjackets Instagram page has even surfaced some of the most intriguing theories in its own posts.
In anticipation for Season 2—the first episode of which dropped on streaming March 24, before premiering March 26 on Showtime itself—we’ve corralled some of our favorite theories from the Yellowjackets subreddit and judged them based on their plausibility. To us, that means how likely they are to come true during the show, whether during Season 2 or later in the series.