[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 1, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen.”]
Frozen Jackie snacks. Magical therapeutic powers and visions. Sunny songs belted out unironically. We break down a few of the weirdest wilderness moments within the Season 2 premiere of Showtime‘s Yellowjackets in this launch episode of our new weekly aftershow, The Buzz on Yellowjackets. Our guide for this episode? Samantha Hanratty, who plays the teen version of needy sociopath Misty Quigley (played as an adult by Christina Ricci).
Hanratty shares her reaction to that shocking final scene of the season opener, which sees Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) — who’d been conversing with the frozen corpse of her finest buddy Jackie (Ella Purnell) your complete episode — eat her useless pal’s ear, which had fallen off throughout one in all their “chats.”
When the actress first learn the scene, she was on her solution to set in Vancouver with castmate Alexa Barajas, who performs Mari. “We were reading it and it gets to the final part of ‘she takes a bite’ and it was like ‘It’s happening!’” Hanratty laughs, admitting she couldn’t wait to get to set and take photos with the Jackie dummy. Will there be extra eating? Check out the video above for extra of Hanratty’s ideas on the cannibalism storyline.
But will Misty get a seat on the desk? She remains to be semi-ostracized after poisoning (though by accident) the women when her magic mushrooms have been blended into the stew, resulting in Season 1’s debauched “Doomcoming” get together the place Travis (Kevin Alves) was practically killed.
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“Get over it!” Hanratty says with amusing. “If I’m being totally honest, if I was poisoned, I probably wouldn’t be the most stoked! I also think there’s a lot of projection, [they] did this terrible stuff and instead of taking ownership, they’re like, ‘oh it’s because you did that.’ That’s how Misty’s taking it in. It just showed your true selves, and you didn’t like what you saw.”
So, she’s super-stoked within the premiere when musical theater geek/new character Crystal (Nuha Jes Izman) — who bursts from the outhouse singing “That’s the Glory of Love,” a traditional we’re fairly certain she realized from the 1988 Beaches soundtrack — suggests “We can harmonize.”
“We have had so much fun playing Misty and Crystal and creating this funky and weird friendship. For somebody to choose [Misty], is a huge deal. She’s never had that before and it’s pretty beautiful,” Hanratty says.
The premiere additionally noticed budding priestess Lottie (Courtney Eaton) stepping it up because the group’s non secular chief. Some, like Nat (Sophie Thatcher), scoff on the “Wiccan” however Misty was one in all Lottie’s early followers. It’s the one place she suits in.
“Misty is very much in the group. She inserted herself into the group. We’ll see how that plays out,” Hanratty says. “I don’t see it as Misty believing in it but seeing a place of power and wanting to get close to power so she can hopefully one day manipulate or do whatever she can to be the one who holds the power.”
For extra from Hanratty, take a look at the total aftershow above! The actress shares a lot extra behind-the-scenes scoop on the episode. Plus, she fangirls over Ricci enjoying her grownup counterpart, opens up about her fave-ever Misty scene, and reacts to carrying that kitten sweatshirt.
Come again subsequent week after we’re joined by Nélisse to debate Episode 2! It’s gonna be gross.
Yellowjackets, Season 2 Premiere, Sunday, March 26, 9/8c, Showtime (Friday, March 24, On Demand and Streaming)