Yellowjackets: Season 2

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Paramount+ with Showtime | Season Premiere Date: March 24, 2023

Summary: The second season of the drama introduces adult versions of Vanessa Palmer (Lauren Ambrose) and Lottie Matthews (Simone Kessell) as well as an amateur detective (Elijah Wood).

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E9. Storytelling
Air Date: May 28, 2023
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S2:E8. It Chooses
Air Date: May 21, 2023
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S2:E7. Burial
Air Date: May 14, 2023

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The Guardian Leila Latif

Mar 24, 2023

One thing that feels assured is Yellowjackets will continue to clear the high bar it sets for itself and be about way more than just “trauma”. Read full review

Collider Carly Lane

Mar 16, 2023

Although the present has yet to fully measure up to the stomach-churning storytelling of the past, Season 2 is still packed to the brim with what made the series such a buzzworthy hit in the beginning: dark comedy blended with harrowing drama, and more than enough wild reasons to keep watching. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Mar 24, 2023

It’s blazing good television, with each episode leaving us wanting more of the madness. Read full review

Roxana Hadadi

Mar 22, 2023

Yellowjackets sometimes attempts so much that it trips over itself, like a fumbled fast-break play on the soccer field. But between its confident willingness to get weird — sinister trees, bloody bees, pernicious facsimiles! — and its relatively sure grip on its world-building, Yellowjackets is making a compelling case for its own longevity. Read full review

Shirley Li

Apr 11, 2023

Yellowjackets understands the potential toxicity of teenage intimacy, and how best-friendship can sometimes activate awful impulses. Read full review

Joel Keller

Mar 24, 2023

While Yellowjackets has its storytelling issues, it does seem that, with everyone settled into the story, that the stakes will be ramped up in Season 2. That should help keep our minds off the show’s glaring flaws. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Mar 21, 2023

There are so many things happening in Yellowjackets at all times that it’s never completely clear which aspects are the distracting sleight of hand and which are the actual magic trick. It’s not mechanically sound, but Yellowjackets is still moving forward. For now. Read full review

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birthdayfight

Mar 25, 2023

Fantastic beginning, maybe the best episode final scene of the entire show.

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emmaek

Mar 24, 2023

A stellar star to a really incredible series. I'm hoping by the end this 8 feels more like a 9, but I can tell the series has the potential. It's all about Lynskey!

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JLuis_001

May 27, 2023

One thing that became clear after the first two episodes of this new season is that the writers were going to start dragging things out before tackling the narrative complexities they developed in the first season.

For that reason Yellowjackets lost a lot of steam in its second season andOne thing that became clear after the first two episodes of this new season is that the writers were going to start dragging things out before tackling the narrative complexities they developed in the first season.

For that reason Yellowjackets lost a lot of steam in its second season and its finale was very weak compared to the first.

Too much preamble to address the violence and darkness they explored in the first 10 episodes.

They're going straight down the Lost path. And we all know how that ended.

This second entry wasn't an outright disappointing, but it fell far short of what it promised. Very far.… Expand

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OlivierPiel

Mar 25, 2023

jumped the shark far too early on season 1, and now it's gone full of supernatural nonsense, dei ex machinae and/or clichés.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

64
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 14, 2025
Season 2

77
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 24, 2023
- tbd
  S2:E9. Storytelling
  Air Date: May 28, 2023
- tbd
  S2:E8. It Chooses
  Air Date: May 21, 2023
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  S2:E7. Burial
  Air Date: May 14, 2023
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  S2:E6. Qui
  Air Date: May 7, 2023
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  S2:E5. Two Truths and a Lie
  Air Date: April 23, 2023
- tbd
  S2:E4. Old Wounds
  Air Date: April 16, 2023
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  S2:E3. Digestif
  Air Date: April 9, 2023
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  S2:E2. Digestif
  Air Date: April 9, 2023
- tbd
  S2:E1. Friends, Romans, Countrymen
  Air Date: March 26, 2023
Season 1

78
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 14, 2021