Yellowjackets - Season 1- Episode 9 |verified| Jun 2026

After Episode 9, that innocence is gone. The ritual has begun. The cast is no longer a soccer team; they are a cult of starving wolves.

But before the knife could descend, Jackie stumbled into the clearing. Yellowjackets - Season 1- Episode 9

“Doomcoming” works as a season penultimate because it strips away every safety net. Up until this episode, the audience could rationalize the 1996 timeline as "survival mode." They hadn't actually eaten anyone yet. They hadn't actually murdered someone in cold blood. After Episode 9, that innocence is gone

Coming on the heels of the devastating revelation in Episode 8 ( "Flight of the Bumblebee" )—that the group’s leader, Jackie, accidentally discovered her best friend Shauna is pregnant with her boyfriend Jeff’s baby— Yellowjackets Season 1, Episode 9, serves as the bloody, psychedelic, and emotional crucible of the entire season. Directed by Eduardo Sánchez (co-director of The Blair Witch Project ) and written by Ameni Rozsa and Sarah L. Thompson, this penultimate episode delivers on the show's promise of turning literal teenage angst into outright savagery. But before the knife could descend, Jackie stumbled

The blackmail mystery reaches a bloody conclusion in the survivors' adult lives.

Tensions peak when Jackie (Ella Purnell) lures Travis (Kevin Alves) away to lose their virginity, an act Lottie perceives as a betrayal to the group. The drugged girls, fueled by animalistic survival instincts, hunt Travis through the woods like prey.

Misty intentionally spikes the communal stew with hallucinogenic hallucinogenic mushrooms she scavenged. She intended them for Coach Ben, but the entire group (except a reluctant Jackie) consumes them.