“Yellowjackets” executive producer Karyn Kusama says that the upcoming third season of the popular Showtime series will expand upon the brief glimpse in the second season of the girls’ first re-entry into civilization.
Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson created the series, which follows a high school girls’ soccer team in 1996 that boards a plane headed to Seattle, only to crash land in the middle of the Canadian wilderness.
In an effort to stay alive, the survivors are driven to cannibalism and cult-style actions. The series also follows a handful of the survivors 25 years after the crash in 2021.
Kusama directed the pilot and second season finale of the series and, appearing on a recent episode of Variety’s Awards Circuit, she spoke about her excitement for what’s to come in the next season:
“I’ve been so excited by this. The concept of that immediate aftermath of re-entry into the world, to me, there’s a whole season’s worth of material there.
And the fact that this is such a long game that each of these characters is facing, in terms of reorienting themselves to whatever normalcy is supposed to be.
I’m sure we’re going to learn that their normal is a lot different than our normal… There’s a lot that needs to be figured out between Season 2 and Season 3.”
Production on a third season has been shut down due to the writer’s and actor’s strikes calling for fair pay (among other things) for writers and actors.
