Season 1 of Yellowjackets begins not merely with a bang, however with an antler-wearing, throat-slitting, trap-setting, howling, cannibalizing cult. Of all of the physique horror headed our approach all through the primary 10 episodes of Yellowjackets—the desires of rotisserie-chicken infants and visions of land-use legal professionals in business-casual blouses chowing down on grime, plus all of the bear stabbings, Biscuit beheadings, maggot munching, berry boozing, and nonconsensual leg cauterizing—the sequence debuted its most brutal imagery proper on the prime. But the picture of a teenage woman working for her life by means of the snowy woods solely to out of the blue fall by means of a lure and be impaled on a sequence of sharp sticks left there by different teenage ladies isn’t simply terrifying in a vacuum—it’s the genesis of the sequence’ most horrifying and central questions.
Yellowjackets’ most fascinating mysteries don’t hinge on whether or not these ladies grew to become cannibals after being stranded by a aircraft crash within the Canadian Rockies—“Did you, or did you not, eat the goalie?” is a fairly easy sure or no query—however on how the women reached the feral level we discover them at within the premiere: the purpose of Antler Queens, tribal hierarchies, ritualistic hunts, and teammates trapped, killed, strung up, drained, and eaten with naked arms. Yellowjackets begins with a query, and that easy query snakes its approach all through the subsequent 10 episodes, spawning sub-questions, paranoia, conspiracy theories, and entire new timelines during which we will surprise what the hell is occurring.
Was it supernatural? Was it a trauma response? Or was it some excellent hormonal teenage cocktail of the 2? “There’s a solution for everything, an explanation for everything,” Taissa, one of many extra logical de facto leaders of the Yellowjackets, declares within the woods when Lottie—the extra clairvoyant and sometimes French Canadian–possessed de facto chief of the Yellowjackets—begins appropriately predicting rivers of blood and handing out protecting amulets. Sure, by the tip of Season 1, the logical Taissa is able the place she should clarify why there’s a shrine of a useless canine and a mutilated child doll within the crawl area of her basement, however to an extent, she’s nonetheless proper. Over the course of 10 episodes, sequence creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson ship solutions to lots of Season 1’s most curious mysteries: Lottie is the Antler Queen, Jeff was behind the blackmail scheme, Adam was just a few man who had the sadly timed hots for Shauna, Jackie dies from the chilly, and a sleepwalking Taissa is the girl within the tree, freaking out her personal son.
But in Yellowjackets, for every rationalization we get, 5 extra mysteries spawn. They span a number of timelines and provide numerous alternatives to fracture off into delusion as a result of we’re viewing this actuality by means of the identical distrustful, paranoid lens because the traumatized teenage ladies who launched us to it at their lowest (or, as sure Antler Queens could say, highest) second. “All this time, you’ve been looking for some bigger conspiracy,” Shauna says as she scolds present-day Natalie when she’s unhappy by the reveal that it was Shauna’s lover blackmailing them and never some bigger cabal answerable for Travis’s demise. “But what if the truth is that we’re all just fucked in the head from what happened to us, and you’re searching for answers that don’t exist?”
Of course, Shauna is mendacity to Natalie at this second. She’s actively chopping up the physique of a person she killed as a result of she thought he was blackmailing her former teammates, when it was, in truth, her personal husband. And now, she’s overlaying up that familial oopsie by gaslighting Natalie into believing that the thriller has been solved, and the questions she’s been asking are nothing greater than a conspiracy principle. So how can viewers be anticipated to know which questions we’re asking have a very logical, Taissa-like rationalization and that are simply traditional instances of Natalie-level head-fuckery?
We can’t. At least not till the sequence finale a couple of years down the highway. But the enjoyable of Yellowjackets isn’t simply within the sluggish, bloody reveal of solutions—it’s additionally within the asking. So, heading into Season 2, listed here are all of the lingering questions that haven’t but been answered in Season 1 and the opposite 200-plus questions they’ve spawned.
Who is Pit Girl?
What we all know: She’s not Jackie, as a result of Jackie died on the finish of Season 1.
What we don’t know: If it’s not Jackie, then why is Pit Girl carrying Jackie’s golden coronary heart necklace? Did Jackie die in her necklace after Shauna gave it again to her? Will somebody take it off her physique? Is that somebody Shauna? Is Jackie’s necklace the alternative of Van’s bone totem necklace? Is it cursed to get you killed by your hungry teammates? If Pit Girl is a Yellowjacket, why doesn’t she actually appear like any of the Yellowjackets we’ve met? Could she be Mari? Could she be one other brunette teenager we haven’t met but? Is there a world the place there’s an Antler Queen aside from Lottie, making Lottie—the one different long-haired brunette—Pit Girl? Do we now have sufficient characters out within the woods who aren’t alive within the 2021 timeline to even present a Pit Girl? Could Pit Girl be somebody who didn’t arrive within the wilderness on the Yellowjackets’ aircraft? Could the flashbacks to the pit-related cannibalism really be flash-forwards? Is Pit Girl Shauna’s kind-of-awful daughter, Callie? How would I really feel about Callie getting eaten? Should I really feel worse about it?
What will occur to Jackie’s physique?
What we all know: Jackie froze to demise after combating with Shauna and getting kicked out of the cabin through the sudden first snow within the wilderness.
What we don’t know: What occurred to that “influence” Coach Martinez was so enthusiastic about soccer captain Jackie having within the premiere? Is the wilderness actually so proof against the highschool constructs of recognition that Jackie’s incapacity to start out fires or make menstrual pads fully trumped her clear capability to plan a celebration? How did the opposite ladies activate Jackie so rapidly? And how will their emotions towards her throughout her final day alive have an effect on the way in which they expertise her demise? Will she be a straightforward first foray into cannibalism, provided that she died of pure causes? Wait, did Jackie die of pure causes? Is it regular to go from having the ability to run round outdoors in spaghetti-strap homecoming clothes one night time to being totally blanketed in snow the subsequent night time? Is the wilderness on its supernatural bullshit? Is the scene that prefaces the reveal that Jackie has not been invited again contained in the cabin a dream sequence? Is it by some means a shared dream between Jackie and Shauna as Jackie is dying? If the person within the dream who tells Jackie “We’ve been waiting for you” is identical man who died within the cabin earlier than the Yellowjackets’ arrival and has seemingly been haunting mentioned cabin through the Yellowjackets’ keep, does that imply that Jackie can now hang-out the cabin too? Does maybe-ghost Jackie need to hang-out the opposite Yellowjackets from the more and more crowded spectral aircraft of the wilderness? Can Jackie’s former love for Shauna outweigh Shauna’s betrayal within the afterlife? How a lot did Jackie love Shauna? Like … what sort of love? Do you see what I’m saying? Did you additionally see the way in which these two checked out one another? And how a lot did Shauna love Jackie? Enough to not eat her physique when there’s nonetheless a lot completely good magic bear meat accessible? Enough to maintain the others from consuming her too?
What occurs to Shauna’s being pregnant?
What we all know: Shauna conceived with Jeff the night time earlier than crashing within the woods on the way in which to nationals. Assuming the crash was someday in May and the women have fun Doomcoming someday round October, Shauna might be in her second trimester on the finish of Season 1’s 1996 story line. The present-day timeline takes place in 2021, which might make Shauna’s wilderness child round 25 years previous. Shauna’s daughter, Callie, isn’t any older than 18 once we meet her.
What we don’t know: Does Shauna’s child make it out of the woods? If not, does Shauna efficiently terminate her being pregnant after failing to take action with Taissa’s assist? Does she have a miscarriage? If the child is born and does survive, the place is that 25-year-old child now? Why haven’t the present-day Yellowjacket survivors talked about a wilderness child? Is it potential the grown-up child is with different Yellowjacket survivors we haven’t encountered in Season 1? Is the grown-up child in maybe-Lottie’s maybe-cult? Speaking of Lottie, why did she contact Shauna’s pregnant stomach and say, “We won’t be hungry much longer,” whereas everybody was on mushrooms? (Are mushrooms unhealthy for infants?) Is there any likelihood—and I don’t need to need to ask this—that somebody or one thing ate that child? Is there any significance to the truth that teen Shauna tells teen Jeff, “If you come inside me, I will raise the baby out of spite and train it to become a killing machine that eventually hunts you down,” on the night time they conceive? Will Shauna’s child grow to be a killing machine, looking out guide membership after guide membership till they discover Jeff?
What will occur to Coach Ben?
What we all know: Coach Ben is homosexual, lacking a part of his leg, not nice at safe-sex talks, and quickly shedding any quantity of authority that being a couple of years older than these ladies as soon as granted him.
What we don’t know: How will the women devolve into full cannibal cult standing if there’s nonetheless an grownup within the room? Does Coach Ben need to die for the scenes we see within the premiere to occur? How seemingly is it that Misty will kill Coach Ben within the wilderness after discovering out he’s in love along with his boyfriend, Paul, and never her? Are the 2 instances Misty actively tried to poison him whereas believing he liked her a superb signal or a nasty signal for his survival? Is it higher to be liked by Misty or scorned by Misty, homicide-wise? Did Coach Ben lose his final shred of authority when Laura Lee advised him he couldn’t cease her from flying? Or was it Lottie ordering him to remain out of the dispute between Shauna and Jackie that landed Jackie outdoors within the snow? If Coach Ben couldn’t save Jackie, is there any approach he can save himself? What are the chances that Coach Ben may survive the wilderness uneaten? At this level, would he reasonably simply be eaten?
Where did the stick-figure image come from?
What we all know: The first time we see the stick-figure image within the sequence is when Pit Girl is working by means of the woods, however the first time we see it in one of many timelines of the sequence is the day of the crash, etched into the tree that Coach Martinez in the end falls out of. The final place we see it’s etched onto the necklace of one of many cult members who kidnap Natalie.
What we don’t know: Who first carved this image within the woods? Was it the person who died within the cabin? Did he carve it within the flooring of the attic the place he died? Or did somebody—or one thing—else carve it, and that’s why he died? Is it potential the image didn’t predate the women’ arrival within the woods? Could one among them have carved the primary etching within the tree the place the aircraft crashed with out anybody seeing? Did Lottie carve the image within the attic flooring after she found the useless physique up there? What does the image even imply? Why does the stick-figure woman have a hook leg when the one particular person within the woods with the potential to have a hook leg shouldn’t be a lady, however Coach Ben? Or does the hook characterize hanging the wrong way up by a hook, like when Shauna drains an animal of its blood or when a ritualistic wilderness cult drains a brunette woman they captured? At what level did the women discover this image was etched into each picket floor within the wilderness, and when did they undertake it as their very own? Who have been the folks carrying the image that kidnapped Natalie? Did anybody outdoors of the Yellowjackets (and journal-reading Jeff) know concerning the image? Exactly how lengthy do you assume it took Jeff to determine how to attract that image on a Nokia keypad for his blackmail textual content?
What occurred in that séance?
What we all know: A really robust wind opened the window throughout Episode 5’s séance. Lottie mentioned, “It wants, it wants, hungry,” in French after which slammed her head in opposition to the window, drew blood, and acquired an impressively long-lasting brow scar.
What we don’t know: Why did Lottie do any of these issues? Was she really possessed by a spirit? Did Jackie need this séance to work for actual, and that’s why she advised Shauna to put the candles on the creepy wilderness symbols? Is Jackie making an attempt to translate a useless particular person’s French by means of Lottie—who Jackie says sucks at French in one of many funniest moments of Season 1? If Lottie actually was possessed, was it by the man she discovered useless within the attic? The man who was most likely French Canadian? The man who Natalie randomly mentions was lacking fingers? That most likely received’t come again up, proper? Is possession by the cabin’s earlier proprietor what makes Lottie (allegedly) extra in tune with the wilderness after the séance? Or is it that she offers the blood she says “it” needs? What does the “or else” in “You must spill blood, or else” imply? Could this spirit be any extra obscure?
Are the woods magic?
What we all know: At least one man has died in these woods, regardless of having a aircraft with a tank stuffed with gasoline to get him out. At least one aircraft has crashed in these woods, stranding a gaggle of teenage ladies who in the end—not less than partially—flip to ritualistic cannibalism to outlive (nay, thrive).
What we don’t know: Why does Lottie hold speaking concerning the cabin man and saying issues like, “It didn’t want him to leave”? No, actually, why does Lottie hold turning to pregnant Shauna and saying issues like, “It’s in you already”? What is “it” Lottie? And why is it “in all of us”? But additionally, if many of the indications that the woods are supernatural come from Lottie, then is it essential to consider that Lottie is supernatural to consider that the woods are independently scheming in opposition to the Yellowjackets? And do any of Lottie’s warnings clarify why Laura Lee’s teddy bear appeared to mild on hearth as quickly as she was airborne within the cabin man’s aircraft? And not for nothing, however why does this cabin have a deck of playing cards with no queens and sufficient blankets and free mattresses to accommodate a complete soccer group? Basically, why did the Yellowjackets’ aircraft crash within the first place, and do these woods have something to do with it?
Is Taissa haunted?
What we all know: In each the 1996 timeline and the 2021 timeline, Taissa is sleepwalking—effectively, actually sleep-climbing bushes and sleep-eating grime—seemingly with none reminiscence of what she does in her unconscious state.
What we don’t know: Why has Taissa been seeing visions of a person with no eyes since early childhood, and was his presence handed right down to her by her grandmother? Will she cross his presence right down to poor Sammy? Does the person with no eyes have something to do with the varied different supernatural components the Yellowjackets expertise within the woods, or is Taissa simply exponentially haunted? Did the person with no eyes inform Taissa to take the eyes out of Sammy’s poor child doll? And, hey, let’s get into it: Why does Taissa begin consuming grime within the woods? Is it nutrition-deprivation-induced pica in 1996 and stress-induced pica in 2021? Why is she solely inclined to eat grime when she’s asleep? And why does she all the time find yourself climbing bushes, the place there may be not essentially a ton of grime to eat? Is Taissa’s logical mind so cussed that she will solely do illogical issues in her sleep? Does she really have break up personalities, whose actions are fully unbiased of one another? Is it potential that when Taissa wakes up in a tree clutching Van’s security totem and comes down to seek out that Van is being attacked by wolves, she’s hallucinating the wolves, simply as she hallucinates wolves outdoors of her home within the present-day timeline? Could that imply that Tai is definitely the one who mutilated Van’s face with an axe? If we’ve principally seen Tai come to whereas up in a tree or down on the bottom consuming grime, when precisely did she make a shrine in her basement (as found by her poor spouse) consisting of the stick-figure image, Sammy’s mutilated doll, her pet Biscuit’s severed head, and a coronary heart that, frankly, regarded just a little to massive to be Biscuit’s? And how does that shrine relate to the devilish smile that took maintain of Taissa’s face when she discovered she’d received her senate race in a shock twist? Also, do grownup Taissa’s eyes typically look crimson as a result of Tawny Cypress has to put on coloured contacts to match Jasmin Savoy Brown’s eyes … or as a result of Taissa is sometimes tremendous, tremendous haunted?
What, precisely, is Shauna’s deal?
What we all know: Shauna looks as if a typical suburban mother with barely less-haunted tendencies than, say, Taissa … however she can be always doing the strangest shit, and she or he’s much more secretive about it than the remainder of her present-day Yellowjacket buddies.
What we don’t know: Why is likely one of the very first issues we see grown Shauna doing within the pilot masturbating in her daughter’s room whereas taking a look at a photograph of her daughter’s boyfriend? Why does nothing like this ever occur once more? What does it imply? Why does teen Shauna begin sleeping with Jeff when she doesn’t appear to love him in any respect? Is she actually as covetous of Jackie’s life as Jackie (and later, Jackie’s mother) says she is? Does she really feel as sorry for Jackie as she says she does? Or is there one thing in between these two emotions that leads to her getting back from the woods and marrying Jeff? On that notice, can one man actually be sufficient of a spouse man to carry up either side of a wedding? Why is Shauna so unhealthy at mendacity? Why is she even worse at hiding journals that maintain actually all of her deepest, darkest secrets and techniques? Why does Shauna gather bunny collectible figurines? Why does she seemingly get sexy from killing a rabbit, butchering it, and feeding it to her unsuspecting household? Why does she appear so chill about killing Adam, a person she claimed to care about and who did nothing worse than quote Kurt Vonnegut in a resort bar? Why does Shauna compulsively hurt the folks she cares about most? Is Shauna OK?
Is Misty casually a serial killer?
What we all know: Misty intentionally destroyed the black field from the Yellowjackets’ aircraft as a result of the woods have been the one place she ever felt appreciated. Misty has made it her life’s work to cosplay the 1990 movie Misery always.
What we don’t know: Is Misty really a sociopath? Does the escalation of watching a rat drown in a pool as a toddler, to Munchausen-by-proxy-ing her wilderness crush (an grownup man) as a teen, to kidnapping after which poisoning a lady she thinks is threatening folks she believes are her buddies point out that the reply to that query is “yes”? Did Misty put fentanyl in Jessica Roberts’s cigarettes, and is Jessica Roberts useless consequently? If so, is that this the primary time Misty particularly murdered somebody or the fifteenth time? Will Misty homicide Coach Ben now that he’s been clear he doesn’t love her, or will she merely hold poisoning him and kicking his crutches out from beneath him? Why is Misty’s the one face we see through the pilot’s cannibal ritual? Why does Misty hold a rabbit-foot in her automobile and nonetheless eat beef jerky as a snack within the present-day timeline? Is Misty OK? Are different folks OK round Misty? Who will handle Misty’s chook, Caligula, if Misty will get kidnapped (cult-napped?) herself? If Misty is, in truth, concerned with the kidnapping cult, will Caligula get a tiny jumpsuit?
What do the others owe Natalie?
What we all know: Taissa paid for Natalie’s rehab (and possibly a number of rehab stints) as a result of, as she tells Shauna, “We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for her, so I do what I can, not just for her, but for me.”
What we don’t know: Would Taissa and Shauna not be right here with out Natalie as a result of Natalie saved them fed as probably the most expert hunter within the woods? Or is it due to one thing else? Is Natalie a part of the rationale they have been in a position to escape the woods? Is she part of serving to them escape the cannibalistic cult, both as prey or members? Is Natalie a frontrunner within the rising fracture between those that acknowledge Lottie as having some kind of reward and those that see Lottie’s methods as harmful? And if that’s the case, why does Natalie appear most haunted by no matter they did out in these woods for 19 months? Can somebody please hug Natalie?
Who killed Travis?
What we all know: Travis survived 19 months within the woods and made it out alive. In the present-day timeline, he was discovered strung up on a crane, wanting like he’d hanged himself. But Natalie believes he will need to have been murdered, as a result of they promised each other they might by no means take their very own lives.
What we don’t know: Do we belief Misty when she places collectively the crime scene images of Travis’s demise and traces the define of the stick determine from a couple of spots on the bottom beneath him, regardless of it wanting virtually nothing just like the stick determine earlier than or after she outlines it? Do we belief Jessica Roberts as the unique supply of the knowledge that Travis’s checking account was emptied the day after he died? If the reply is “no” to each, is it potential that Travis did kill himself, and the conspiracy is a crimson herring? If it’s “yes” to each, then was the cult that kidnapped Natalie making an attempt to avoid wasting her from killing herself or cease her from exposing who actually killed Travis? And both approach, what did Travis’s ultimate notice—“Tell Nat she was right”—imply? And who did he give the precise notice to since we solely ever noticed the phrases in an imprint on his notepad?
What occurred to Javi?
What we all know: Javi disappeared the night time of Doomcoming after a feral Shauna growled at him to “RUN.” By the tip of Season 1, he nonetheless hasn’t returned to the cabin.
What we don’t know: Does Javi make it out of the woods alive? If so, why doesn’t anybody point out him when Travis is discovered useless? Could he have survived that snowy night time alone when Jackie couldn’t? If somebody emptied Travis’s checking account after he died, may that particular person have been his youthful brother, Javi? And if that’s the case, may Javi nonetheless be a trustworthy Lottie follower? What occurred to that little picket wolf Javi made within the woods? Has anybody checked the 2021 basement shrines?
How does Van hold surviving?
What we all know: Van made it out of the burning aircraft after being caught beneath her seat and deserted by Jackie. Van escaped a wolf assault with nothing various Magic Marker scars. Van seemingly comes again to life whereas her buddies are, as soon as once more, making an attempt to let her burn in a fireplace. Van was legitimately speculated to die in Season 1 (a couple of instances), however the sequence creators couldn’t kill her off as a result of they appreciated Liv Hewson’s efficiency a lot.
What we don’t know: How is Van surviving all of those near-death experiences? Is it actually due to the bone amulet Lottie gave her? Is it as a result of she believes in Lottie’s powers? Because she believes within the powers of the woods? Did Misty’s Red Cross babysitting coaching not train her to examine for a pulse earlier than DIY cremating somebody? Or was Van legitimately useless once they lit her funeral pyre after the wolf assault and one thing introduced her again? What does Van imply when she later tells Taissa about what she noticed whereas she was in between life and demise—that “Something was out there with us”? What occurs between Van and Tai such that they each survive the woods however are now not related? Where is Van within the present-day timeline, and has she remained a trustworthy Lottie acolyte? Did Akilah ultimately get accepted right into a plastic surgeon residency on the only foundation of the unbelievable reconstructive work she did on Van’s gaping face wounds with nothing greater than a needle, thread, Old Spice antiseptic, and a Girl Scout badge in stitching?
Who was Adam?
What we all know: Adam actually was only a youthful man inquisitive about having an affair with Shauna, and never a grown-up Javi, because the showrunners explicitly confirmed to Variety.
What we don’t know: OK, however was Adam actually just a few man? Would a person with that swoopy of a haircut actually not be frequently posting on Instagram or making shirtless TikToks of himself portray big canvases to the tune of a Billie Eilish music? And why did Adam have such a particular again tattoo? Was it only a coincidence that the tattoo was a big mountain panorama? Is that mountain tattoo much less as a result of Adam was associated to the Yellowjackets’ crash in a roundabout way and extra as a result of a particular again tattoo is an glorious technique to determine a physique and level again to the final person who physique had an affair with? Is it an issue that Shauna’s daughter, Callie, is aware of what Adam appears like, is aware of that he’s lacking, and is aware of that her mother could possibly be related? Will she narc? Will she attempt to blackmail Shauna once more? Will she get a later curfew out of this? Will she get despatched into the Canadian wilderness to be hunted by a cannibalistic cult for this? (Full circle, child!)
Who—or what—the fuck is Lottie Matthews?
What we all know: When the Yellowjackets crash within the woods, Lottie has a dwindling provide of Loxipene, a prescription remedy for schizophrenia. In a flashback, we be taught she was placed on the drugs as a toddler as a result of she was having hallucinations—y’know, just like the one the place she screamed bloody homicide and saved her dad and mom from a lethal automobile crash. As Lottie runs out of her meds, she begins to obtain more and more frequent visions and warnings concerning the wilderness surrounding them that usually show true. This seer capability places her in a management place among the many Yellowjackets, which comes with an antler headdress through the Doomcoming mushroom journey, suggesting that she is the Antler Queen we see main the cannibalism ritual within the pilot. When Natalie is kidnapped by folks carrying necklaces etched with the stick-figure image and signature cult jumpsuits, the lady she blackmailed into investigating Travis’s checking account exercise is leaving her a frantic voicemail that ends with the phrases: “Who the fuck is Lottie Matthews?”
What we don’t know: Does Lottie Matthews have precise supernatural skills? When she says, “We won’t be hungry for long,” and the subsequent day is ready to strategy a bear, which principally bows right down to her so she will stab it within the neck, what precisely does that counsel? Can Lottie see the longer term? Or can she say no matter she needs after which make it come true? If the expedition group had heeded her warning concerning the bloody river like everybody besides Tai thought they need to, would Van have escaped mutilation? Can Lottie solely see warnings, or can she harness the wilderness in a roundabout way? Is the try to do the latter how Lottie’s uncommon management skills go from kind of predicting the longer term to coordinating ritualistic cannibal killings? Was the stick pit actually crucial? At some level throughout Season 1, does it appear to be Lottie will get taller?
I’m sorry, however I’ve some extra fast questions earlier than we transfer on to Season 2: Is reputation all the time about energy, even within the woods? Especially within the woods? And does Lottie’s newfound energy make it out of the woods and into 2021? Is she concerned with the cult that kidnaps Natalie? Is she the chief of the cult that kidnaps Natalie? Is her household nonetheless private-plane wealthy, and does that assist her grow to be the Gwyneth Paltrow of antler-related wellness retreats? How does she know to place the bear’s coronary heart within the tree-trunk altar, and likewise, the place did that tree-trunk altar out of the blue come from? When did Lottie’s wilderness translations go from “It wants, it wants” to the rather more participatory “And let the darkness set us free”? Who the fuck is Lottie Matthews, and what the fuck is she able to? How many of those questions can Season 2 of Yellowjackets tackle, which of them don’t have any solutions in any respect, and may the darkness actually set us free?
