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Season 3 of Yellowjackets, the popular thriller drama series that premiered on Showtime on November 14, 2021, has been greenlit and will premiere in 2025, as per a report published by Deadline on January 15, 2024. However, there is another piece of good news for fans of the series.
As per an article published by Tudum on October 1, 2024, season 1 of Yellowjackets is now streaming on Netflix in the US. The series shows how a fateful plane crash changes the lives of a team of talented female soccer players flying to Seattle for a game.
The synopsis of the show on Netflix reads:
“When their plane crashes in the wilderness, a girls soccer team must do whatever it takes to survive. As adults, they reckon with their brutal decisions.”
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The series explores themes such as survival, trauma, cannibalism, and adolescence, among others. Apart from Netflix, Yellowjackets is available on other platforms as well.
Netflix and other platforms currently streaming Yellowjackets
Season 1 of the series is now available to stream on Netflix in the US and some other countries. Besides Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+ are also streaming the show, as of the time of writing. Additionally, the series is available on Showtime, where it originally premiered.
The following table lists the minimum monthly plans for the platforms currently streaming Yellowjackets:
Yellowjackets tells a harrowing tale loosely inspired by real-life events
The plot of the show unfolds across two timelines. While the first strand of the story portrays the events of 1996, the second one depicts the characters’ trajectory in the present. In the 1996 timeline, a team of talented female soccer players flies to Seattle for a game. However, their plane crashes on the way.
As a result, they are stranded in the wilderness for around nineteen months. While they initially try their best to adapt to the new surroundings, procuring food becomes increasingly difficult with the onset of winter. Left with no other options, they ultimately take to cannibalism. Some lose their lives, while others manage to exit the ordeal, carrying a deep-rooted trauma.
In the present day, the school attended by the survivors arranges a reunion party. Past traumas and resentment resurface as the survivors face each other once again. The series seamlessly blends the past with the present, and the parallel pacing of the two timelines effectively highlights the effect of the past on the present.
While not based on a single real-life event, several inspirations behind the series can be pointed out. While speaking with NPR on December 31, 2021, Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the creators of the show, revealed that the book Lord of the Flies and the film Alive were “pretty formative” for them.
While William Golding’s fictional text Lord of the Flies is a civilization vs. savagery tale that deals with similar themes as found in Yellowjackets, the 1993 film, Alive, is the adaptation of the 1974 book of the same name which retells the tragic Andes Flight Disaster.
In the Andes Flight incident, a few Uruguayan rugby players had to resort to cannibalism in order to survive, following a plane crash. Some inspiration may have come from the Donner Party as well, as per a report by Forbes published on November 19, 2021.
Cast and crew of Yellowjackets
The show was created and executive produced by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson. Other executive producers include Drew Comins, Karyn Kusama, and Jonathan Lisco, and the series was originally produced by Showtime Networks.
Each principal character in Yellowjackets is played by two actors, one for the 1996 timeline and the other for the present timeline. The cast of the series includes:
- Melanie Lynskey and Sophie Nélisse as Shauna Shipman
- Tawny Cypress and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Taissa Turner
- Christina Ricci and Samantha Hanratty as Misty Quigley
- Juliette Lewis and Sophie Thatcher as Natalie "Nat" Scatorccio
- Simone Kessell and Courtney Eaton as Charlotte "Lottie" Matthews
- Lauren Ambrose and Liv Hewson as Vanessa "Van" Palmer
- Kevin Alves and Andres Soto as Travis Martinez
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