Yellowjackets season 2 is coming, but there's a frosty dilemma to solve

Date:
Tue, 03 May 2022 10:46:09 +0000

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Yellowjackets showrunners have teased the arrival of season 2 which will be predominantly set in winter.

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The wild weirdness of last years Yellowjackets looks set to continue with the shows hotly-anticipated second season.

The unexpectedly brilliant Showtime series follows a group of high school soccer players who, after crash-landing en route to a tournament, must fight to survive in the harsh Canadian wilderness. The shows focus shifts between the girls descent into savagery and their struggle to leave it behind as rescued adults, culminating in a cliff-hanger ending that opens yet more questions about what really went down in the bushes.

By the sounds of things, though, Yellowjackets fans wont have too long to
wait for answers. Co-showrunner Ashley Lyle recently told Variety that shooting on the series second season is due to begin in late summer (i.e. in the next three months) despite a very specific production challenge brought about by that imminent schedule.

According to Lyle, Yellowjackets season 2 will re-visit the winter storyline teased by the shows pilot episode, meaning its cast and crew will have to get very creative on the production front if they hope to convincingly shoot a winter-set season during summer.

But were starting those production conversations [now] and we have some
really amazing and creative people on our team, Lyle added. So [there] will
be movie magic at play.

At present, the series showrunners are in the writing process and are just getting started on the actual scripts for new episodes, though Showtime Networks president Gary Levine has previously hinted that the studio is
aiming for Yellowjackets season 2 to arrive at the end of 2022. Analysis: bring your jackets for season 2

Spoilers follow for Yellowjackets season 1

Yellowjackets season 1 kicked off with a brief, winter-set flashback sequence showing the remaining survivors led by an Antler-wearing figure we presume
to be Courtney Eatons Lottie Matthews chasing, killing and eating an unidentifiable fellow team member.

The show never catches up to this moment in its debut crop of episodes, but the series finale does close with Lottie ominously performing a Lord of the Flies-esque ritual with a bears heart, which suggests well see at least some of the girls going full feral mode in Yellowjackets season 2. Things take a turn for the supernatural in Yellowjackets' season finale (Image credit: Showtime)

As mentioned, the wilderness-set sequences in the shows new episodes will
also find the stranded team faced with the threat of winters icy
temperatures. Showrunner Ashley Lyle told Variety that she and the other writers are referring to season 2 as The Winter of Their Discontent,'
implying that the series will be dialling up the danger for its already struggling protagonists.

For our money, this snowy setting will only add yet more gruesome intrigue to Yellowjackets simple-but-winning premise. Among the fantasy-filled narratives of last years television, Showtimes gritty drama succeeded by giving
audiences a healthy dose of brutal realism. If season 2 continues in the same vein, Yellowjackets has every chance of recapturing its initial popularity.

Yellowjackets is available to stream now on Hulu and Showtime Anytime in the US, and on Sky and Now TV in the UK. Yellowjackets and more, the best shows
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