Yellowjackets: Season 3

April 11, 2025 6:06 PM - Season 3 (Full Season)

The saga of a 1990s high school soccer team trapped in the wilds of Canada after a plane crash -- and the parallel saga of where the ever-burgeoning group of survivors is now -- continues to chew its way into the hearts of viewers everywhere.

Listen! As Showtime purchases the rights to every rock song recorded between 1993 and 1997. Marvel! As actresses nearing middle age portray teenagers! Marvel harder! As a wildly overqualified cast of middle aged actors make it look like the writers care about their plotlines at all, and they almost sell it! It's Yellowjackets, and it's still pretty watchable! Will it be renewed? The wilderness will choose!!!

posted by kittens for breakfast (10 comments total)

I am thankful that the last episode works as a series finale, because I'm not sure I'd like a fourth season. Basically all of my questions about this show were answered, disappointingly, last season, but any questions I still had have definitely been answered at this point.

Disappointingly. I'm not sure what the writers are going for by having every possible supernatural explanation actually be something mundane and stupid, but that is not my jam, personally, AT ALL. I was that kid watching Scooby-Doo every Saturday morning who was sure that somehow, THIS TIME, the monster would not be the mean old asshole who owned the paper factory. I knew even then that monsters are just cooler than lame bullshit, unless you're a fucking dork who likes to feel smart because you knew all along that nothing cool could ever happen in life. And I mean, if the explanation for the screaming voice in the woods is a species of frog that, guess what, doesn't exist in real life any more than monsters do, you're not only being lame, you're cheating at being lame. Come on!

In conclusion, I would not miss Yellowjackets, but I would absolutely watch another season of Yellowjackets, the same way my dumb ass watched Scooby-Doo every Saturday morning. Yes, I know that I'm part of the problem.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:20 PM on April 11 [4 favorites]

I am thankful that the last episode works as a series finale

Well said.
posted by porpoise at 7:31 PM on April 11 [1 favorite]

Taissa was channeling her inner Khaleesi in that final ep. fun!
posted by supermedusa at 9:43 AM on April 13

I punched out after episode 5. the brutality just got too brutal and it stopped being fun.

Maybe someday I'll think about how it crossed that line and what it all means about me, specifically, but right now whatever.
posted by Sauce Trough at 2:26 PM on April 13

Loved this season. So bonkers. I hope they go full late-seasons Americans with Callie.
posted by signal at 4:19 PM on April 13 [1 favorite]

Lord, this is only season 3, how on earth did the writing go so far off the rails so quickly? The first season felt so refreshingly spot on in the depictions of the characters' relationships and interactions, coping with crisis and trauma, the experience of being teenagers and middle-aged women. It was fine to have some pretty far-fetched plot points because so much of the writing felt true in other ways. By the end of the second season it felt like the writers completely ran out of imagination for those core emotional truths and were just grasping for ever-more-implausible new things for the characters to DO in a race to kill off characters.
posted by desuetude at 8:40 AM on April 14

I'd say I wonder how much them having to kill off Natalie threw a monkey wrench in their plans, but give Juliette Lewis's reactions to people talking about writer's plans, that seems foolishly optimistic.

I'm glad that they have really established that Natalie was the one who was the most sane and paid the largest price for it in reality. Misty was always the bubbly obvious crazy danger noodle. (I did like the characterization with her wearing Nat's jacket the whole season)

And while I always thought that Shauna was the most dangerous of them, they went hard into nonsensical land with her hard heel turn. (Who would turn down rescue?!?)

Oh and now we also get Angry Walter and a team that's broken apart.

This show went from watching a group of hyper competitive teen girls trying to survive something awful and traumatic with wry commentary on a bunch of things to a soap opera of the worst sort.

Also, once again proving that anyone who says they've learned lessons from how Lost ended is lying.
posted by drewbage1847 at 9:31 AM on April 14 [3 favorites]

I tapped out super early because it seemed very clear that the writers had no plan and the disconnect between the teen characters and their adult versions was increasingly nonsensical to me. I was talking to a friend last week and he said it finally came together near the end, so I might give it another shot at some point.

I remember reading something when the first season came out that the writers had a plan for a 5-season arc but I can't believe that's true after watching even a little bit of this season.
posted by asnider at 9:51 AM on April 14

I mean, I think they had a plan to be in a job for five years, lol. I can't blame them for that! But it's obvious that there isn't anything like five years of story, at least not the way they're doing it.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 10:51 AM on April 14 [1 favorite]

Season 2 wasn't my favorite, but I really enjoyed season 3. Maybe because it was so ridiculous.

I'll keep watching, mainly because I want to know who burned down the damn cabin.
posted by sacrifix at 8:53 PM on April 15