When Yellowjackets first premiered, it was a sleeper pandemic-era hit. Through the course of its first season, the Showtime series rapidly went from a cult series to the show on everyone’s lips — and the theme song in everyone’s heads. Season 2 forced the survivors into a dismal winter and proved Season 1’s success wasn’t just a fluke — there was still room to innovate and raise the stakes.
Season 3 proves Yellowjackets will go down in history as something special. It’s fully secure in its identity as a “mystery box” show, a term originating with J. J. Abrams and Lost. Yellowjackets has always been saddled with comparisons to the ABC series, as they’re both supernatural survival shows with complex central mysteries, but in Season 3, the show finally proves it’s not doomed to rest in Lost’s shadow — it’s picking up the torch.
