It’s the mystery-box series that became a word-of-mouth phenomenon back in early 2022 – and, in March, Showtime’s Yellowjackets will be back, hopefully uncovering more about just what happened when that plane full of teenage girls crashed in a forest, leaving them to survive in the wilderness for nineteen months. A new teaser has dropped for the second series, though it doesn’t give much away. Check it out below.
Following the girls both as teens and seeing the repercussions of their experience decades later (plus the impeccable casting, including Juliette Lewis and Melanie Lynskey) was a big part of what made Yellowjackets so compelling, and after the revelations of the first season’s finale, this teaser gives us a glimpse at some of the characters coming into the fold in the latter timeline. It also introduces Elijah Wood as citizen detective Walter, and a companion of Christina Ricci’s excellent eccentric Misty. As he says to Misty, “kidnapping, cults and death” mean her friendship with Shauna, Natalie and the rest of the gang isn’t exactly normal – though with hints mentioned in this teaser at what the girls went through including “Darkness: we brought it back with us” and “We weren’t alone out there”, just how weird their experience was is still anyone’s guess.
Yellowjackets Season 2 starts on 24 March in the US, with a UK release date still to be confirmed.