Yellowjacketsseason 3 now has a release date thanks to a violent new teaser. Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the hit survival thriller show premiered in 2021, telling a dual-timeline story about a high school girls soccer team surviving in the wilderness after a plane crash and the lasting trauma from the event two decades later. Season 2 premiered in spring 2023 to a positive reception, but the confirmedYellowjacketsseason 3faced delays due to the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that same year, with 2025 provided as a broad release window.
Now, the officialYellowjacketsaccount on X, formerly Twitter, now shares the first teaser for the new batch of episodes, revealing thatYellowjacketsseason 3 will premiere on August 16, 2025. The teaser features wasps crawling over a decomposed skull, accompanied by text that reads: “Eat your heart out.” The text is interspersed with brief flashes of season 3 footage, including a character being choked, another holding a sharpened stick to a victim’s throat, and Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) pulling out a knife. Check it out below:
What Yellowjackets' New Teaser Means For Season 3
The Footage Drops Some Big Hints About What’s To Come
The biggest questions heading into season 3 are those raised by theYellowjacketsseason 2 finale, which features the survivors' cabin going up in flames. With their shelter now destroyed, survival will become even more challenging, especially in the winter months, and the teaser features one brief shot of two characters in a snow-covered landscape. Though making it through winter will seemingly play a role in the episodes to come,the rest of the season 3 footage in the teaser appears to be set during spring or summer, when weather becomes less of a concern.
Yellowjackets Timeline Explained: How Much Time Passes In The Show
Yellowjackets doesn’t state how long the girls have been stranded, but a few hints, such as Shauna’s pregnancy, help to form a more concrete timeline.
Even in warmer weather, however, food will still be a major concern for theYellowjacketscast of characters. In part due to the Valentine’s Day premiere date,the “Eat your heart out” tagline is also an obvious allusion to the fact that the survivors eating each other has become a major part of the show, and more is to come. The footage shown in the teaser is all from the 1990s-set storyline, meaning it’s not clear what’s coming in the future timeline, but the show has traditionally balanced the past and present narratives.
In a recent interview withVanity Fair, Lyle said of bridging the gap betweenYellowjackets' two timelines that season 3 “is really when we start bringing those pieces together."
Our Take On The Yellowjackets Season 3 Teaser
The Showtime Series Is One To Look Forward To
Though the teaser raises just as many questions as it answers, it’s nice to finally have a release date for a show that has, with seasons 1 and 2, delivered plenty of thrills, moments of dark humor, strong performances, and narrative surprises. With a February 2025 release date now confirmed,a full-length trailer forYellowjacketsseason 3 will likely be arriving over the next few weeks, providing an even better idea about what’s to come when the hit show returns.
The response to the Showtimes series thus far has been generally quite positive, andit’s entirely possible that, should season 3 be a viewership hit, the show will return for season 4. Many questions remain aboutYellowjacketsseason 3, but audiences can expect more to be revealed in the near future.
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Yellowjackets is a television series exploring the survival ordeal of a high school girls' soccer team stranded in the remote wilderness after a plane crash. It interweaves psychological horror and coming-of-age themes, simultaneously depicting their harrowing transformation and its lasting impact on their lives 25 years later.
