This article contains spoilers For “Yellowjackets”.

If there is a clear hero in “Yellowjackets”, it’s Natalie “Nat” scatorccio, played by Sophie Thatcher in adolescence in the previous chronology and Juliette Lewis as an adult in the current chronology. Teen Natalie is the only character in the series who always tries to do the right thing, even if it sometimes turns and aggravates everything. While Tai (Jasmine Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress), Van (Liv Hewson and Lauren Ambrose), Misty (Samantha Hanratty and Christina Ricci), Lottie (Courtney Eaton and Simone Kessell), and in particular) Shauna (Sophie Nélisse and Melanie Lynskey) Natalie remained courageous, kind and reasonably balanced.

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At the end of season 3, it seems that the group was divided into two main factions in the previous chronology: one which is much more unbalanced (mainly Lottie, Shauna and Tai), and the team resistance, which is made up of everyone. Teen Shauna (Nélisse) can be officially controlled by yellow Jackets, leading through fear and strength, but Nat is the unofficial leader because everyone loves him. It seems that the scene was planned for a Teen Nat force test against Shauna in season 4; It’s exciting, but it would probably be more intriguing if there was a parallel brewing Nat against Shauna in the current scenario. The adult Shauna (Lynskey) certainly becomes more and more reckless and vindictive in season 3, but now there is no more adult nat to challenge it. For what? Because the show suddenly killed her in season 2.

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That’s right: In the final of season 2, “storytelling”, “ Natalie is accidentally stabbed with a needle bearing a fatal dose of phenobarbital (or perhaps fentanyl). It seems silly, but it’s a little less silly in the context: adult Misty (Ricci) is a well -established poisoner who tries to kill a minor character, but Natalie arrives in the manner of stopping him. It is still a little difficult to believe that Misty could both accidentally stabb And Press the syringe before making your mistake, but this is the result we have obtained. And good, if someone I had to die in this episode, I guess it should be the only survivor who had managed to find peace. But what led to the exit of Lewis in the first place?

Although most Major death of the characters on “Jaunejackets” were welcomed by fans, Nat’s death fell flat. He did not have the impression that it was something that the writers of the series had planned from the first day, but something that pushed them by external forces. Fans quickly theorized that there was a conflict between Lewis and the showrunners; This would explain not only Nat’s premature death, but it would also explain why the adult Nat scenario was suddenly so light. Indeed, his arc of season 2 involved less screen time and took place almost entirely in one place, creating the impression that it was written to allow Lewis to get things through as quickly as possible.

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Although Lewis remained positive in the interviews on the show, she suggested that rumors are at least partially true. “I think I’m good for a series for two seasons. This is a different type of work,” she said in a 2024 variety interview. “In my creative DNA, I like the creation of films. It is something that I understand well with a single director, a period of finished time and a start, in the middle and an end. And I really enjoy these limits.” It seems that Lewis did not want to face several other seasons of “Yellowjackets”, so the writers have disorderly.

Adding more fuel to the alleging fire that Nat’s death was not part of the initial plan, Lewis published a Instagram Message before season 2 was created which certainly seemed to refer to certain creative differences between it and the writers of the series. “I hope” Natalie “will be written as I thought she was going to be when I signed,” she wrote. “Much more” colorful “, intelligent diagrams, you do not know how to fix a guy and hard speaking, lol.

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Then there was that Interview with the casting “Yellowjackets” At the time when season 1 was broadcast for the first time. Lewis did not seem happy to be there; When asked for the first time to talk about her character, she died. After about 24 minutes, she sounded to say: “Natalie was really depressing to play. And it is a devolution. So, you are becoming somehow, and I didn’t know.” She kept positive things at the end, complimating the rest of the distribution and the team, but the line on the arc of the character of Natalie is the one that stuck in the minds of the longest fans.

While I myself found the death of Nat strangely hollow in season 2, I think that season 3 took advantage of it in the future. With each episode that passes in the teenage scenario, viewers understand better why the adult Nat fought the most by the survivors. Misty’s role in Nat’s death was also well used; This led him to start the third season more isolated from other survivors than ever, which gave the basics of his turning point completely against Shauna by the final.

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Perhaps the most convincingly, Nat’s death has added additional issues to the adult scenario. We have seen in season 3 as bad as the Shauna adolescent and Lottie’s control over the group obtain, Nat will always be there to defend the reason and protect everyone from his worst impulses. Adult survivors no longer have this luxury. While season 3 firmly cements Teen Nat as the hero In the group facing the wicked Shauna, there are no clear heroes among adult survivors who can ride against the reign of Terror of Shauna. This means that Shauna will win for good this time, that someone else will have to intensify and assume the role of Nat.

Whatever happens, there is an additional feeling of chaos in the adult scenario in season 4 of “Yellowjackets”, something that could not have happened without the premature and potentially alleged disappearance of adults. Adult survivors have lost their moral compass, and everything that happens will not be pretty.

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