"Yellow Jackets" returns for more thrills and suspense in season 3

The Real Perspectives

Published February 14, 2025

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The highly anticipated and critically acclaimed psychological thriller series "Yellow Jackets" returns for its third season on Paramount+ with Showtime today with two huge episodes. The new season comes with 10 episodes and will release new episodes every Friday on Pramount+ and Sundays on Showtime through its finale on April 11 and 13, respectively.

The series follows a New Jersey high school soccer team that travels to Seattle for a national tournament, but when their plane crashes in the wilderness, it leaves the surviving members stranded and desperate. The series chronicles the aftermath 25 years later with dual timelines as the surviving members, now adults, still battle the residual trauma from being stranded, while the past timeline focuses on them going to extreme lengths to stay alive.

Fans waited almost 2 years for the return of our beloved characters, eagerly anticipating the fallout from Natalie Scatorccio's (Juliette Lewis) death and the survivors' cabin burning down at the end of season 2 in the past timeline.

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Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, executive producers include Drew Comins, Karyn Kusama, Jonathan Lisco, Ashley Lyle, and Bart Nickerson, with Lionsgate Television and Showtime Networks producing.

The series stars:

• Christina Ricci as older Misty

• Samantha Hanratty as younger Misty

• Melanie Lynskey as older Shauna

• Sophie Nélisse as younger Shauna

• Tawny Cypress as older Taissa

• Jasmin Savoy Brown as younger Taissa

• Lauren Ambrose , as older Van

• Liv Hewson as younger Van

• Sophie Thatcher as Natalie

• Courtney Eaton as younger Lottie

• Simone Kessell as older Lottie

• Steven Krueger as Ben Scott

• Warren Kole as Jeff

• Kevin Alves as Teen Travis

• Sarah Desjardins as Callie Sadecki

Elijah Wood, who plays Walter, will be returning, and guest stars for this season include Hilary Swank and Joel McHale, making this season even more exciting. The logline for Season 3 reveals that as summer arrives, the Yellowjackets face a fragile victory—the brutal Winter that nearly claimed them is finally behind them, but distrust in leadership and tension within the team jeopardize their chances of being rescued. In the present, long-buried secrets from their pasts begin to surface. As the women fight to keep their lives from unraveling, they must confront a chilling question: who are they really, and what dark truths are they hiding from each other and themselves?

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Don't miss the first two episodes of the new season currently streaming on Paramount+.

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