Fans of Yellowjackets are buzzing with excitement – Showtime has just officially announced that season 2 of the hit drama series will officially be premiering on March 24th, 2023. The second season of the show will reportedly pick up where the first one left off, with tons of returning faces but also new appearances by Juliette Lewis and Elijah Wood, among others.
Premiering in 2021, the drama-thriller series Yellowjackets follows the Yellowjackets, a high school girl’s soccer team that becomes stranded in the barren wilderness after surviving a horrific plane crash. Season 1 of the series follows the girls – Shauna, Taissa, Jackie, Misty, Natalie, Vanessa, and Courtney – as they transform from a thriving, top-notch team into tattered and brutalist clans, turning on each other right and left as they all fight to survive. 25 years after the crash, Yellowjackets also gives us a look at the lives the girls have managed to put back together, if only just – but did they ever really leave the wilderness behind?
Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Ella Purnell, Sammi Hanratty, Sophie Thatcher, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton star as the teenage versions of the girls, while Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Lauren Ambrose, and Simone Kessel play their adult counterparts.
Everything We Know About ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2 on Showtime
Not much is currently known about season 2 of Yellowjackets, aside from its release date – Entertainment Tonight reports that the new season will pick up after the tragic death that concluded season 1 and follow a growing divide between the girls as teenagers. Showtime has released a 15-second teaser for the new season, available below, that features snowy wilderness, plenty of blood, and a very cryptic symbol carved into a tree; the girls will apparently be forced to survive as winter approaches, but what this means for the plot is unclear.
It has been confirmed, however, that Yellowjackets season 2 will star Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) in a series-long guest arc as Walter, a citizen detective, according to Deadline. Nélisse, Savoy Brown, Hanratty, Thatcher, Eaton, and Hewson will be returning for season 2, along with Lynskey, Cypress, Lewis, Ricci, Ambrose, Kessell, Steven Kruger, Warren Cole, and Kevin Alves.
Yellowjackets hails from creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, who also act as showrunners alongside Johnathan Lisco and Drew Comins for Creative Engine. Yellowjackets season 2 will be available on March 24th, 2023 for subscribers and make its on-air debut on March 26th.