Fans of supernatural cannibal drama Yellowjackets are facing a long wait for season 3 which won’t grace our screens until 2025 now.
In 2023, Hollywood came to a standstill for several months while writers and actors went on strike for better terms and conditions. The effects of those strikes are still being felt.
Yellowjackets is one of the many shows that faces a long delay in getting a new season out. Showtime’s drama aired its second season earlier in 2023, which ended on a pretty shocking note – you’ll have to watch the series to find out exactly what that note was.
Deadline now reports that Yellowjackets season 3 is looking at a 2025 release. The pre-production of the new season was interrupted by the writers’ strike just one day in, and writing only got back underway in September 2023.
The series follows a girls football team that find themselves stranded in the woods after a plane crash. We also follow some of the survivors in the present day as adults and have slowly gained insight into what exactly happened during the gruelling months the group spent in the woods.
Cannibalism. Cannibalism is what happened. And potentially something supernatural, we’re still not quite sure.
The acclaimed ensemble cast for Yellowjackets features Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Liv Hewson and Courtney Eaton as the young girls stranded in the woods and Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell as the adult versions of the kids.
Season 3 will presumably deal with the aftermath of the [redacted] in the season two finale, but in 1996, the team’s also facing the issue of not having any shelter in the middle of winter. We’re also hoping we get more clarity on whether or not there is something supernatural going on, with Lottie telling her friends the wilderness will reward them after the sacrifice.
More on Yellowjackets as we get it.
