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(Emphasis on the natural-causes part, though.)
Im not sure that Jackie Taylor would have been so giving, especially considering the divisive way she died.
In a biting twist, her body is the only thing that can save them.
(Again, you’re free to eat me only if I die ofnatural causes.)
In an emergency, no one would fault the survivors for eating her to stay alive.
Did standards and practices have an issue with the scene?
Are there still things in this day and age that we truly cannot show on television?
Or did the creative team think we couldnt handle an unadulterated version of this first instance of group cannibalism?
Either way, the shifts between the imagined and reality took me out of the sequence as a viewer.
It feels odd that a series so comfortable with gore would shy away from this pivotal moment.
need to be gutted and skinned pretty much ASAP after dying to avoid spoilage.
However, not planning ahead should have made the Jackie leftovers into a food-safety nightmare.
Oh, also, burnt clothing isnt edible.
Lottie is the centerpiece for much of this speculation.
(Watch this space when Javi shows up alive.
But hes probably alive, right?)
Lottie also unknowingly (or maybe knowingly?)
That triangle is still very much intact 25 years later, even in the wake of Traviss death.
When Nat and Lottie talk about Travis in the present, Lottie tells Nat a story.
Great plan, dude.
Lottie agrees to help him, but as he goes unconscious, the batteries in the remote give out.
Something is fishy here, especially in how Lottie reacts when the remote doesnt work.
Lottie is an unreliable narrator, and Nat knows it.
Lotties spiritual sway also reaches Tai and Van.
In the wilderness, Tai is struggling.
Evil Tai somehow untethers herself from Van and wanders in the snow in pursuit of the eyeless man.
Van saves her from nearly sleepwalking over a cliff and then suggests she see Lottie for help.
She outright refuses and then tells Van that neither of them is going to talk to Lottie.
In the present, adult Tai is also struggling.
to make it avoid the reemergence of Evil Tai, shes trying to stay up … forever?
Eventually, she passes out and hallucinates that Sammy has come to visit after school.
Ever the dutiful wife, she calls Simone to come pick him up.
At first, when we think that Sammy is there, its terrifying.
The show wouldnt go there with an innocent kid … would it?
Thankfully, it doesnt.
Instead, the eyeless man demands Simone as a sacrifice.
If Tais family life has gone off the rails, then Shaunas is uncontrollably flying through a dark tunnel.
(She put it on a cookie, Shauna!
Acookie!!!)
Callie is a rebellious teen dealing with an emotionally absent mom, and thats rough.
(Too soon?)
Last but not least, lets check in with Misty.
But Im very, very worried for him.
Quite frankly, Im worried about all of the men on this show.
We end the episode with Coach Ben as he lumbers away from the frantic friend feast in the wilderness.
His refusal to partake in this pivotal shift somehow feels like a clear harbinger of his doom.
Buzz Buzz Buzz
Necklace Watch: Lottie returns the heart necklace to Shauna before they burn Jackie.
Sois Javi alive?If so, where is he?!
As Shauna considers the bear meat, ghost Jackie says, Thats not what youre hungry for.
Is the groups slide into cannibalism a result of Shaunas wild wilderness pregnancy cravings?
Admittedly, Jackie was the only other thing in the fridge.
Oh, excuse me, heliotrope.
Could the Yellowjacketsbewearing any more clothes?
