Yellowjackets Season 3: Aussie release date, bonus episode hints and wild fan theories explained

Yellowjackets exploded onto the scene in 2021 and, unsurprisingly, seasons 1 and 2 were hugely popular with audiences at home. We’re now about to move into Season 3 of the series, so here’s what you need to know about the next instalment of Yellowjackets, as well as when and where you can watch it in Australia.

What is Yellowjackets about?

If you’re new to Yellowjackets, Season 3 is probably not the place for you to start your journey, but here’s a refresher of the show, regardless.

The synopsis reads as follows:

“Yellowjackets tells the narrative of a team of wildly talented high-school girls soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while also tracking the lives they have attempted to piece back together.”

In short, the series is a thrilling (at times scary, even) journey through the wild ways in which these high school girls survive the ordeal of being stranded in the Canadian wilderness and their varied ways of ‘coping’ with their trauma later on. Yellowjackets follows two timelines: the time when the girls are stranded, and years later as they navigate life as adults.

When is the release date for Yellowjackets Season 3 in Australia?

Back in January, Yellowjackets EPs Ashley Lyle, Jonathan Lisco and Bart Nickerson spoke with Deadline and revealed that production would go back for Season 3 in May 2024, with the new season likely hitting screens in “early 2025”.

We know from earlier seasons that Yellowjackets tends to release in Australia at around the same time as in other international markets, so we can expect the same (hopefully) for Season 3.

What about the Yellowjackets bonus episode?

If you’re deep in the fandom, you’ll also know that we should be getting our hands on a bonus episode of Yellowjackets sometime before Season 3 drops. Ashley confirmed back in 2023 that the bonus episode was indeed coming, but we haven’t heard news on when that will be.

Ashley simply wrote on X, “There will be a bonus episode between seasons, but I love you guys and I don’t want y’all to lose sleep thinking it’s tonight”.

Surely it will be landing soon?!

Which cast members are returning for Season 3?

While we did have some sad losses in Season 2 of Yellowjackets, plenty of familiar faces will be making an appearance next season. Here are the cast members we know will be returning.

• Melanie Lynskey as Shauna
• Sophie Nélisse as young Shauna
• Tawny Cypress as Taissa
• Jasmin Savoy Brown as young Taissa
• Sophie Thatcher as young Natalie
• Christina Ricci as Misty
• Samantha Hanratty as young Misty
• Warren Kole as Jeff
• Courtney Eaton as young Lottie
• Lauren Ambrose as Van
• Liv Hewson as young Van
• Kevin Alves as young Travis
• Steven Krueger as Ben Scott

Key plot theories for Yellowjackets Season 3

We don’t yet know what Season 3 of the show will hold, but in October, Vanity Fair spoke with Ashley about the upcoming season of Yellowjackets and she hinted that we will be getting some major answers in new episodes.

“This season is really when we start bringing those pieces together,” she told the outlet.

Vanity Fair also shared a collection of first-look portraits of the key cast members, with the photoshoots supposedly giving some hints at what we can expect.

“I cannot get into specifics, I wish I could, but there are a couple of big things in this season that were in the very initial pitches before we even took it out to networks, that we’ve finally got the chance to execute and to play out. The satisfaction of having something in your brains for that long and finally having it come to pass is very exciting,” Ashley shared.

She also revealed, “We are going to learn more about what happened in the wilderness that they are so afraid of coming out. We hope it will be both satisfying and at times unexpected.”

Fan theories for Season 3

Fan theories are running wild as we await Season 3. From speculations about Coach Ben’s possible survival in the present-day storyline to debates on the true identity of ‘Pit Girl,’ fans have a lot of theories that Season 3 may answer. Social media discussions and Reddit threads are full of detailed breakdowns, as audiences attempt to piece together the mysteries from past seasons.

Spoilers ahead from earlier seasons, be warned!

1. Coach Ben is alive in the modern day: This is a huge question that has plagued fans since the start. Is coach Ben alive, or will he be killed off by the girls? Some believe he will return in Season 3 as a living survivor from the crash, after having successfully hidden from the girls in the wilderness.
2. Mari is Pit Girl: If you cast your memory back to the opening scene of Yellowjackets, you’ll recall a girl caught in a pit by the girls. Many on Reddit theorise that this could be Mari, played by Alexa Barajas.
3. Could Crystal still be alive? This one has been met with many mixed opinions but some believe because we didn’t see a clear ending for Crystal that, perhaps, she’s still alive somewhere. Similarly, some believe ‘the wilderness’ took Crystal’s body after she fell.

Where to watch Yellowjackets in Australia

New seasons of Yellowjackets will drop in Australia on Paramount+ first, so if you want to watch right away, this is the best place to do that.

Older seasons of Yellowjackets are also available to stream on Netflix and Prime Video.

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