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Casey Duby is an avid TV writer, watcher, and reviewer. She graduated from Emerson College in 2021 with a focus in Writing for Film and Television, where she wrote several pilots and watched countless more. She's been working in television ever since.
Casey loves thoughtful content that makes her ponder our world and the people in it, and she's learned that any genre can surprise her. With favorites in every genre from horror to politics, family to action, nothing is off limits.
Casey has experience working in TV development, as well as writing both narrative and host-driven shows. Currently working as a Writer in Los Angeles, with an AMC A-List membership to boot, she is always hunting for the next good story and great theme song.
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Yellowjackets is full of brutal moments, but one in particular still keeps me up at night, even though it aired months ago. A lot happened in the third season of the girls-soccer-team-turned-cannibals series — adult Shauna got darker, young Shauna even more so, and Melissa was revealed to still be alive. But I want to talk about episode 6 of Yellowjackets season 3, "Thanksgiving (Canada)."
At this point, Coach Ben is being held prisoner by the girls after being rediscovered in the wilderness. His remaining Achilles tendon has been slashed to prevent escape, and he's gone on a hunger strike, begging for death. A vision featuring him as crucial to their rescue has spared his life thus far, but what happens next proves just how far from humanity the girls have fallen.
Coach Ben's Death In Yellowjackets Was Worse Than Expected
Natalie giving Ben food in Yellowjackets season 3 episode 6
Coach Ben's death was to be expected given his absence in the present timeline — though the consistent reveal of unexpected survivors has kept hope alive that he might still be out there. "Thanksgiving (Canada)" dashed these hopes for good in a death sequence so brutal it rivals Glenn's in The Walking Dead.
By this episode, Ben was completely spent. He effectively had no legs, was wasting away from lack of food, and had been defecating in place for days. Akilah's vision forced the others to go to great lengths to keep Ben alive, but things had deteriorated so much that his forced existence felt more inhumane than allowing him to die.
Natalie, who always had a closer relationship with Ben, finally breaks rank and does the right thing (though at this point "right" is a relative term). In a swift, emotional mercy kill, she puts Ben out of his misery. It's all very twisted and tragic. But then, somehow, things get even wilder.
The Feast Made Coach Ben's Fate Extra Disturbing In Yellowjackets
To punish Nat for this out-of-line behavior, Shauna forces her to prepare Ben's body for a feast. This is deemed a way to honor the dead, as "the wilderness" would want, but it quickly becomes clear that Shauna is just having a blast as Queen of the Wilderness.
It all comes to a disturbing climax at the moment of the feast. Everything is prepared, including Ben's severed head, front and center. Feeling that something is "off," Lottie pleads with the wilderness to give her some answers. She and the wilderness end up screeching at the top of their lungs, and the rest of the girls join in. It's completely feral.
This is the moment, seconds before the credits roll, that brand-new people appear on the scene. While this was a great cliffhanger that raised a ton of questions about who these people are, how long they've been there, and what they're doing, their arrival at this moment served another purpose as well.
As viewers, we've been along for the ride for years now as Yellowjackets descended into disturbing cultish cannibalism. Having strangers appear and stare in horror at this moment of the girls' peak madness drives home just how outlandish this has all gotten.
The girls may be justifying things with rituals, the entity of "the wilderness," and pure stranded survivor brain, but the truth is, they're screaming at the top of their lungs around a candlelit dinner where the main course is their soccer coach, head and all. This Yellowjackets moment is as disturbing as it sounds.
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