Yellowjackets

Yellowjackets is an American thriller drama television series created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson for Showtime.

Yellowjackets is an American thriller drama television series created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson for Showtime. It follows a high school girls’ soccer team that survives a plane crash in the wilderness in 1996 and alternates with the survivors’ lives 25 years later. The series blends survival drama, psychological horror, and mystery.

Premise

The series follows a girls’ soccer team from Wiskayok, New Jersey, whose plane crashes while travelling to a national championship tournament. The survivors must endure the wilderness, while the narrative also shows their lives as adults decades later.

Production

Yellowjackets was created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and premiered on Showtime in 2021. It is produced as an American English-language series and later became associated with Paramount+ with Showtime in streaming listings.

Themes and style

The series combines elements of survival drama, psychological horror, mystery, and coming-of-age storytelling. Its structure relies on parallels between teenage trauma and the long-term consequences faced by the adult survivors.

Cast and characters

The cast includes Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Ella Purnell, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Sophie Thatcher. The actors portray either adult or teenage versions of the same core characters across the two timelines.