Yellowjackets: Ranking The Most Complicated Relationships (So Far)

(L-R): Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna and Ella Purnell as Teen Jackie in YELLOWJACKETS, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”. Photo credit: Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME.
(L-R): Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna and Ella Purnell as Teen Jackie in YELLOWJACKETS, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”. Photo credit: Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME. /
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Yellowjackets is mostly filled with nothing but complicated relationships. It would be hard to spend 19 months in the Wilderness with everyone getting along all the time, and these New Jersey teenagers are no different.

Their circumstances are far beyond what anyone could contemplate as this team in 1996 is forced to figure out how best to survive with only what surrounds them, as their present day adult counterparts struggle with the trauma, guilt, and grief that surrounds what it took to return home.

But, one of the elements that makes Yellowjackets so significant is how the individual relationships are represented and what the multiple dynamics bring out of each other. What happened when they were teenagers that impacted their relationships as adults so much? Why did some stay in touch and others worked hard to avoid remembering that time in their lives?

Taissa had stayed in touch with Shauna and Natalie over the years, enough for Shauna to have secretly kept her number and for Taissa to have paid for Natalie's time in rehab. There are connections between them that have not even been fully explored yet, as Yellowjackets is not done undergoing the traumatic events of the teenagers striving to survive, or thrive, in the Canadian Wilderness they have found themselves in.

Certain dynamics, such as that between Natalie and Travis, were teased to have been very complicated before the duo spent any real time together on screen. Others, such as Taissa and Van, appear to have gone through huge changes between the teen and adult timelines.

For as many complicated relationships as this series holds, and nearly every main dynamic holds plenty of it, which are the most complicated?