Yellowjackets Season 2 Premiere Date Announced by Showtime
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Yellowjackets Season 2 will premiere early on streaming and on-demand for Showtime subscribers on Friday, March 24.
The highly-anticipated season will then make its on-air debut on Sunday, March 26, at 9:00 pm on Showtime.
This premiere date is later than some expected. For instance, Showtime Networks president of entertainment Gary Levine told Vulture in January that Yellowjackets Season 2 was eyeing a 2022 premiere.
“We are working towards a premiere at the end of 2022,” Levine said.
“We’d love to stay on an annual cycle. I think our audiences deserve that, and I also think that when you have a show that has this kind of a momentum, you don’t want to let it dissolve,” Levine added.
The Showtime series, created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, is described as “equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story, and coming-of-age drama.”
Yellowjackets follows a high school girls’ soccer team involved in a plane crash “deep in the remote northern wilderness.” The series also depicts the characters 25 years later, “tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together.”
The series stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, and Tawny Cypress.
Yellowjackets Season 2, currently in production in Vancouver, also stars Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, and Kevin Alves.
Showtime shares that Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell have joined Season 2 as series regulars, alongside Elijah Wood in a season-long guest arc.
Variety reports that Ambrose will portray the adult version of Vanessa “Van” Palmer, played by Liv Hewson. Per Deadline, Simone Kessell joins as the adult version of Lottie Matthews, played by Courtney Eaten.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wood will play Walter, “a dedicated citizen detective who will challenge present-day Misty in ways that she won’t see coming.”
Lyle, Nickerson, and fellow showrunner Jonathan Lisco serve as executive producers. Yellowjackets is produced for Showtime by studio Entertainment One (eOne). Drew Comins of Creative Engine also serves as executive producer.
Since its series premiere in 2021, Yellowjackets has received seven nominations at the 74th annual Primetime Emmy® Awards.
Not only did the series score an Oustanding Drama Series nomination, but Melanie Lynskey was also nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Christina Ricci for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
The show’s debut season ended in January with Yellowjackets Season 1 Episode 10, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi,” revealing how Jackie died.
Watch the Yellowjackets Season 2 premiere date announcement below:
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Yellowjackets Season 2 premieres on Friday, March 24 on streaming and on-demand; on-air on Sunday, March 26 at 9/8c on Showtime.
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