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Let's Explore The Biggest Mystery In Yellow-jackets
By MICHAEL BOYLE
The eyeless man in “Yellowjackets” has been a topic of debate among fans who question whether he is real, as Season 1 teased the idea that something supernatural is at work.
However, the show seems to be taking a psychological approach, as showrunner Jonathan Lisco said, “It’s not about an external monster in the woods who is going to eat our teens.”
Flashbacks
This strange figure first appears in Taissa’s flashbacks to her childhood in “The Dollhouse” episode, where the audience sees her close relationship with her sick grandmother.
The next flashback shows her grandmother shouting at an invisible figure she describes as having no eyes, begging, “Don't let him take me! Don’t let him take my eyes!”
In the final flashback, Taissa approaches her grandmother’s casket and opens her eyelid to discover the eye’s gone, but this is caused by a contact lens that funeral homes use.
Her grandmother's terror and the grim discovery at the funeral during her childhood could explain how Taissa has come to be haunted by the idea of a man with no eyes.
Real or not real?
This figure seems most likely a personal demon rather than a literal one, as Taissa doesn’t actually see the man with no eyes until her grandmother describes him to her.
Seeing the figure how he was described implies the eyeless man is a figment of Taissa’s imagination, something her young mind created due to her grandmother’s genuine terror.
Taissa’s biggest fear
Unlike Van, Taissa does not believe in the supernatural, possibly because accepting the belief would mean she’d have to grapple with the implications of that childhood memory.
This staunch rejection points to the idea that the eyeless man is the personification of Taissa’s fear of death or of not having control of the world around her.