‘Yellowjackets’ Showrunners Dissect Season 2 Premiere: Creating Adult Lottie, Shauna’s Recklessness and That Shocking [SPOILER] at the End

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SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” the Season 2 premiere of “Yellowjackets,” now streaming on Showtime. “Yellowjackets” — which earned seven Emmy nominations for its freshman season, including one for outstanding drama — set the internet alight during Season 1 in a way that feels tough to match, which its showrunners, co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, and Jonathan Lisco, are all too aware of.

In an interview with Variety, Nickerson said they tried to approach the Season 2 premiere carefully, in order to set up “this season of story that we’re very excited about,” while also wanting to give fans “something that expresses appreciation for you tuning in.” Most of all, though, Nickerson said, “I guess we tried to tune out the pressure and the expectations.” According to Lyle, the Season 1 writers’ room had already spent time establishing what might happen at the beginning of the second season, which helped. “So some of it, we just kind of came in ready to go,” Lyle said. “And then other things, it was just like, ‘OK, how do we even top that?

Is there a better idea that we’ve come up with in the interim?’” When it comes to topping those plans, let’s first address the end of the episode: The cannibalism on “Yellowjackets,” teased in the pilot and throughout the show’s first season, has at last arrived in the show’s ‘90s timeline, where the Yellowjackets are trying to survive the freezing Canadian wilderness.

Yep, in the final moments of “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) gulps down the ear of her dead best friend, Jackie (Ella Purnell), who froze to death in the Season 1 finale.