Thanks, wilderness: There’s a bonus episode of Yellowjackets coming
Yellowjackets co-creator Ashley Lyle confirmed last night via Twitter that an extra hour will air sometime before season 3 premieres
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Note: This article contains spoilers for Yellowjackets season 2 episode 9, “Storytelling”
Yellowjackets fans who didn’t quite get their fill from the season 2 finale last week: rest assured, the wilderness (by way of series co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson) has plans in stores. After some considerable fan speculation, Lyle confirmed via Twitter last night that a bonus episode of Yellowjackets will air at some point between season 2 and season 3 (although she didn’t offer any more specifics).
“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,” Lyle wrote in response to a fan who planned to stay up late in the hopes a bonus episode the Showtime thriller would surprise them.
An official slated premiere date for the extra hour hasn’t been released yet, nor have any possible plot details. In fact, the timeline for a new season in general is still extremely unclear: the Yellowjackets season 3 writers room only operated for a day before shuttering due to the ongoing WGA strike.
For what it’s worth, Yellowjackets’ season 2 finale certainly left plenty of cliffhangers for a bonus episode to gnaw into (or veer completely away from, if the episode takes any cues from the two special episodes Euphoria aired between its first and second season). For one, there’s the matter of the cabin, which was burning to the ground as the remaining survivors watched when season 2 concluded. For two, there’s the Natalie question: although adult Nat appeared to die at Misty’s hands in a tragic case of misapplied phenobarbital, this series is no stranger to wildly improbably survivals. Then again, as a colleague so astutely pointed out, a bonus episode could just be an hour of Shauna baring her sole to Jackie’s dolled-up corpse. Ah, the possibilities of modern television.
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The fact that there were only 9 episodes this season and 10 in the first suggests this was always the plan and they’re just trying to maintain interest between seasons (not a complaint, I very much enjoy this show).
“The fact that there were only 9 episodes this season and 10 in the first suggests this was always the plan”
The fact that Lyle, in the very thread that this article is reporting on, says “Closer to S3. I’m not being coy, there’s a strike and things are complicated!”
suggests the episode has not been shot yet, and has maybe not even been written yet.
I get the sense that *maybe* the showrunners caught wind of the impending strike and decided to push the release of this episode, which would also explain the random week Yellowjackets took off between EP5 and EP6.I cannot for the life of me remember which actress said this or when, but I could have sworn in a pre-season interview one of them said that Episode 10 was their favorite. So looks like this was always the plan, indeed. I don’t think it’s really a “bonus” episode either, just a non-linear addition that could be aired at any time? I remember there being pre-season hype about Jason Ritter appearing in an episode, which he…never did. Reddit speculation is that this is a backstory Dead Cabin Guy (BTS photos seem to confirm this), which means it’s the perfect thing to show as a sort of standalone. We’ll see.
This show is undercooked and illogical AF.
Maybe the episode will fill in what the adult women’s motivations were all season. It seems like the only way the show knew how to get them from Plot Point A to Plot Point B was to have them act like absolute morons.
Will it make the last episode less shitty, will it make up for whatever that season was….I was on board, I thought s1 was fantastic…s2, was like playing checkers with whatever ashole that responds with this. Pointless.
Just clicked on the tweet…. to further my disinterest, 3 f’n responses…lol. s2 was bad