‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3, Episode 2 Recap: New Friends

Season 3, Episode 2: ‘Dislocation’

I’ll admit: I had to Google the name of the blonde Yellowjacket (Jenna Burgess) who starts making out with Shauna in this week’s jaw-dropping “Yellowjackets” conclusion. It’s Melissa.

Up until this point, Melissa has been one of those Yellowjackets whose presence seemed sort of pointless. She was almost a glorified extra, there just to fill out the scenes in the woods. (She also didn’t show up till Season 2, which we apparently weren’t supposed to notice — and mostly didn’t.)

Even the show acknowledged her lack of character development in the premiere this season. After Melissa cracks a mean joke about Mari to Shauna, Shauna says, “Wait, do you, like, actually have a personality?”

That’s just what we were all thinking.

But Episode 2 confirms that Melissa not only has a personality but is also set to become a major part of the woodland (and likely the present-day) narrative. The final moments set it all up with a sequence in which both timelines collide.

In the woods, Melissa follows Shauna with the aim of complimenting her on her resilience. Shauna’s reasonable response? To draw a knife on her. But instead of balking at that threat, Melissa goes in for a kiss. Shauna, shockingly, responds by kissing her back.

This is all intercut with a scene of the present day Shauna on a phone call to the manager of the restaurant where she accompanied Jeff to a disastrous work dinner. During that evening, Shauna retreated to the bathroom where, in truly “Yellowjackets” form, something freaky happens. Someone entered, turned off the lights and left a phone in an adjoining stall. The background on the device features a picture of some very familiar looking mountains. And the when the phone rings from an unknown number, it plays the song “Queen of Hearts” by Juice Newton.