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In “Yellowjackets” season 2, episode 6 — “Qui” — Ben’s illusion is starting to collapse. He tries to run away into it while Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) is in labor. Despite covering his ears and closing his eyes, he can’t quite escape. The imagined room he and Paul are in is halfway between a suburban living room and the cabin; the left-hand wall is the cabin’s front door and the back wall is the cabin’s fireplace mixed together with a bookshelf.
Does the end of Ben’s hallucinations portend his own end? There are few things I’m certain of in “Yellowjackets,” but Ben eventually dying is one of them. He’s one of the 1996 characters who hasn’t shown up in the present day. Since he needs crutches to walk, it’ll also be hard for him to fight back or run away if the girls get hungry again.
During an interview with TV Insider, Krueger indicated that Ben can’t even count Natalie as a true ally — is their friendship headed for a breaking point? The loss of an adult authority figure would be a needed tipping point for the Yellowjackets to devolve into savagery as we glimpsed in the pilot.
It’s easy to picture a scene where Ben dies and then his final thoughts are the imagined Paul fading away forever. Still, “Yellowjackets” is often a show that zigs when you think it’ll zag. Maybe Ben’s failing imagination will instead be the wake-up call he needs to live in the moment and survive. We’ll have to wait and see.
New episodes of “Yellowjackets” stream on Showtime every Friday and air on television every Sunday.
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