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warn ! This article check spoiler for Yellowjackets season 3 , episode 8!Confirming a democratic buff theory , Yellowjacketsseason 3 , episode 8 reveals thatMelissa is still alive in the present - day timeline , with her adult character continuing an odd vogue among the survivor . The notion that Melissa would survive the wilderness was inclose back inYellowjacketsseason 3 , episode 2 ’s ending , as grownup Shauna ’s concern about her “ stalker ” overlap with a view revealing stripling Shauna and Melissa ’s romance . excuse why her survival caused so much mix-up for Shauna , episode 8 then revealed that Melissa faked her death after returning home , go under a raw identity to hide from the other Yellowjackets .
As Shauna andHilary Swank ’s Melissareunite for the first time in about 25 year inYellowjacketsseason 3 , episode 8 , the latter ’s instauration is arguably the strangest of the series ’ survival of the fittest reveals . Though Lottie ’s reveal was centered on abduct Natalie , her survival made sense , with Van ’s endurance twist also making sense due to her architectural plan to basically go off the control grid . Meanwhile , Melissa ’s death fake - out has some curious plot hole , with the show’sstrategy to reiterate to viewers which fictitious character Swank is act ultimately exacerbate a complaint about the grownup survivors ’ costumes .
Yellowjackets' Present-Day Survivors All Have The Same Exact Fashion They Had Back In 1996
Their Clothing Choices Haven’t Changed Since They Were In High School
To ensure that viewers were n’t mistaken about whatYellowjacketscharacterHilary Swank is playing , the show infix grownup Melissa by get her continue to weary backward baseball caps . The backwards lid detail for teen Melissa seemed to just be free-base on a youthful fashion instruction while also perhaps being a mode to report her hair and keep it contained out in the wild . Yet , Melissa is still forever wearing her backwards lid even 25 age after returning home from the wild .
Ultimately , having Melissa carry on to wear a backwards hat as an adult made her reveal feel more absurd thanYellowjackets ’ other adult subsister . Each of the survivors has their own vogue that is generally keep in both timelines , but the backwards hat on Melissa was already a detail that became somewhat of a joke inYellowjackets ’ preceding timeline . As such , it became far too on the nose for the serial publication to maintain that identifier for grownup Melissa , as if it would be too difficult for watcher to recognise who Swank was playing otherwise .
Yellowjackets ' corroborate Present - Day survivor
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Character
Adult player
Teen Actor
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Shauna
Melanie Lynskey
Sophie Nélisse
Taissa
Tawny Cypress
Jasmin Savoy Brown
Misty
Christina Ricci
Samantha Hanratty
vanguard
Lauren Ambrose
Liv Hewson
Lottie
Simone Kessell
Courtney Eaton
Natalie
Juliette Lewis
Sophie Thatcher
Travis
Andres Soto
Kevin Alves
Melissa
Hilary Swank
Jenna Burgess
That said , it was already shocking thatevery other present - dayYellowjacketssurvivorhas the same style as they did when their aeroplane barge in at eld 17 or 18 . Though , their fashion parallels are more subtle than Melissa ’s hat . Adult Shauna still primarily wears her washrag and denim , Van ’s subdued outfits are very similar , Lottie continued to don more ethereal article of clothing , Nat maintained her leather jacket and dye hair’s-breadth , and Misty still wears the same cat sweaters she had even back in the wilderness . After 25 years , it ’s unbelievable that none of the characters ' fashion choices would have vary and adapted over metre .
Yellowjackets' Survivors Wearing The Same Clothes 25 Years Later Still Fits With The Show’s Themes
They’ve All Been In A State Of Arrested Development
As ridiculous as it is , the survivor still having the same fashion choices that they did back when they were teenagers still makes mother wit on some level . Yellowjacketshas retell metre and again thatthe grownup survivors have n’t been able-bodied to properly move on from those versions of themselves from back in the wild . therefore , they ’ve mostly been in a state of arrested growing since returning home , and their unchanging option of article of clothing reflects that .
Shauna is one of the most striking characters in both of Yellowjackets ’ timelines , and her time of year 3 job is making the serial firmly to watch .
For the past 25 yr , they ’ve been unable to escape those version of themselves . Any time that someone hears the name Shauna Shipman ( well , Sadecki now ) or Taissa Turner , they think of the stripling who were strand in the wild for 19 months and may or may not have partake in cannibalism . Tai could n’t even escapeYellowjackets ' cannibalism allegationsduring her campaign for senator . Since they must continue to hide so much of the truth about themselves during that time , their clothing hand the survivors an outlet to still express their teenaged self more openly .
Melissa Still Wearing Her Backwards Hat Has A Deeper Meaning For Her Fake Identity Story
It’s One Of The Only Parts Of Her Old Identity She Gets To Keep
To that remnant , adultMelissa choose to still wear her backwards lid is a direction to conserve an of import scene of her former identity . Melissa has been living under a fake name , “ Kelly , ” with a completely different backstory for over two decades , so she has even fewer ways to defend facet of her sure-enough ego than the otherYellowjacketssurvivors . Considering how strong of an identifier that rearward chapeau became for her fictional character as a adolescent , it ’s fitting that Melissa would choose to keep that particular as a through - line for her two identities as an grownup .
raw episodes ofYellowjacketsseason 3 release Fridays on Paramount+ with Showtime .
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