![]() ![]() I just put my faith in the creators and in the editors of the show. Did that change the approach you took to the acting process or the choices you made this season? Fans pored over every minute detail of the show looking for clues. There was a huge reaction to the show in the first season. Season three is going to keep addressing her deeper issues. What I do know is that Tai's storyline does not wrap up in a tight little bow at the end of the season. But I ask not to be told things if they don't pertain to what's happening in my character's life at the moment I'm playing her, because I don't like to play ahead. I have very little information, and I have a lot of questions. Did we see Tai actually praying at that spooky basement altar? How much do her personas overlap? Should we read into her cryptic election night smile back in season one? And, most importantly, is Steve the Yorkie going to be okay?Ĭolin Bentley / Showtime Going into this season, did you know more about Tai and her long-term trajectory as a character than you did in the first season? ![]() In the first of our weekly interview series with the various twisted minds behind Yellowjackets, Cypress answers all our burning questions from the second season premiere. As we enter season two, we're left to ask: is this "Other Tai," as Cypress calls her, evil? Or is she the reason she survived out there? Or both? And why is she back? ![]() It first manifested out in the woods all those years ago and has re-emerged to wreak havoc on her life. Or so she thought, until the reappearance of her sleepwalking alter ego-one with a penchant for climbing trees, eating dirt, and ritualistically killing dogs. She buried her trauma, and with it vestiges of her younger, softer self. She opens the series as a lawyer running for New Jersey state senate she had a well-appointed home, a photo-op-ready wife and son, and all the bounty of a high-achiever with an unrelenting drive to succeed. On the other hand, present-day Tai has her eyes only on the prize. In flashbacks, we meet teen Tai (played by Jasmine Savoy Brown), someone who is driven and ambitious, but who often stops to show compassion to her teammates and help shoulder their burden. (Which is why we asked them to walk us through them all after last year's finale.)Īs Taissa Turner, Tawny Cypress is the core cast member (alongside Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, and Christina Ricci) whose long-simmering trauma has taken the longest to boil over. Co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have teased a five-season plan for the series (it's already been renewed for a third season) and meticulously piled every frame of the show full of hints and red herrings. And while viewers didn't have to wait quite as long for help to arrive in the form of a second season, we may have gone to some even more messed-up places trying to unravel the show's myriad of mysteries. ![]() It's been just over a year since the season one finale of Yellowjackets, Showtime's runaway hit about a 1996 high school girls' soccer team stranded in the wilderness for 19 months and the "darkness" they still carry with them in the present. (After all, it's the only series that deploys dramatic devices like Chekov's Tori Amos lyric.) Spoilers below. Welcome back to the Yellowjackets hive! Every week we'll be interviewing someone from the addictive Showtime drama to discuss the shockers from the latest episode, get hints on what to look out for in the rest of the season, and to break down the Easter eggs that abound in the show's scripts, props, and even in its killer '90s soundtrack. ![]()
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