Jackie’s fate on yellowjackets96 was finally revealed. 🐝
was finally revealed. And while it’s one that some viewers may have predicted, how things unfolded was still very much a surprise. Actress Ella Purnell as well as creators and executive producers Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson break down Jackie’s journey,: Spoilers for “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi,” written by Lyle and Nickerson, and directed by Eduardo Sanchez.] , Jackie died after being forced to survive outside on her own. “This was an idea that existed from the very beginning.
“We felt like her character deserved a really emotional death. That was really important to us,” Lyle says, explaining that much of season 1 is built around Shauna and Jackie's friendship. And the fact that they couldn’t find a way to resolve their issues -- with Shauna becoming pregnant after sleeping with Jackie’s boyfriend being one major one -- “was just really heartbreaking to us,” she adds.
But at the same time, Jackie often rubbed the rest of her team the wrong way, failed to contribute to the group’s survival in a meaningful way and even hooked up with Travis despite knowing that Natalie likes him. Of course, the actress is referring to Shauna’s betraying Jackie by sleeping with Jeff and threatening to slice up Travis during Doomcoming. She adds, “When you take these women out of civilization, a normal, practical society and you put them in the wilderness, the rights and the wrongs don’t matter.”