Yellowjackets fans won’t have to wait until season three for a new episode. One of the show’s co-creators, Ashley Lyle, tweeted on Thursday that a standalone episode — similar to Euphoria’s bonus episodes or the U.K. edition of The Office’s Christmas episodes — is on the way before a new …
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John Cameron Mitchell is in the midst of his 60th-birthday festival —yes, festival — when I call him to discuss his latest cameo: a singing, dancing parrot on the latest episode of Yellowjackets. “I love 60,” he says. “It’s the new 40.” And if his role as a cigar-chomping, silk-robe-wearing …
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Alanis Morissette offered her take on “No Return,” the theme song for Showtime series Yellowjackets. Morissette’s grungy version of the credits track, written by Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker, appeared in the fourth episode of the show’s current second season. “I love the original version of ‘No Return,’” Morissette said …
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Ever since the Yellowjackets pilot premiered, bookended by nightmarish sequences of its central characters ritualistically hunting and eating one of their own soccer teammates, a central question has hung over the show: when and why the hell did these seemingly ordinary teenage girls descend into gruesome cannibalism? It’s one of …
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Among the fundamental questions of Yellowjackets is how much trauma does or doesn’t change a person. The Showtime drama largely takes place in two timelines: one showing the immediate aftermath of a plane crash that stranded a high school girls’ soccer team in the remote Canadian wilderness, the other catching …
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The trauma-bonded group of women who found themselves stranded together for 19 months in the Showtime series Yellowjackets may be out of the wilderness, but they are far from being out of the woods. In the official full-length trailer for the show’s second season, premiering March 24, the cast braces …
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I f your perception of Christina Ricci is burned into your brain from the Nineties — when she broke into the public consciousness as the sullen child at the heart of the original Addams Family movie, then went on to play a sullen teen in Casper, a sullen tomboy in …
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Friday the 13th just got even more unsettling as Showtime unveiled the long-awaited trailer for Season 2 of Yellowjackets. The series, returning to the platform on March 24, laid the foundation for paranormal chaos lurking in the shadows during its gripping first season. Now, the ensemble cast braces for the …
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In an undeniably great year for horror, the most unsettling scene from one of the more popular series featured a man offering his neighbor a sandwich. Granted, that man was cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, his neighbor the woman who got him evicted, and the sandwich possibly contained human flesh, …
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Yellowjackets, everyone’s favorite survivalist soccer team slaughter-fest series, will return for its second season next spring. The Season Two premiere will be available on-demand for Showtime subscribers on March 24 before airing on March 26 at 9 p.m. ET, the network confirmed Wednesday. The premiere date announcement was accompanied by …
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