Yellowjackets co-creator Ashley Lyle confirms {that a} bonus episode will drop earlier than the discharge of the third season.
When it turned clear that the second season of Yellowjackets would solely embrace 9 episodes, one lower than the earlier season, followers turned satisfied {that a} bonus episode was secretly being held again. Seems, these followers had been proper all alongside.
Yellowjackets followers believed that the bonus episode would drop right now. That didn’t occur, however sequence co-creator Ashley Lyle took to Twitter to substantiate that the episode does exist. She didn’t provide an replace on when followers may see the episode, solely that it’s going to premiere someday earlier than the discharge of the third season. “Go to mattress! Get some relaxation!” Lyle wrote on Twitter. “There will likely be a bonus episode between seasons, however I like you guys and I don’t need y’all to lose sleep pondering it’s tonight.“
Ashley Lyle added that the Yellowjackets bonus episode will debut “nearer to [season 3]. I’m not being coy, there’s a strike and issues are sophisticated.” It’s greatest to not get too excited for that bonus episode as manufacturing on the third season of Yellowjackets remains to be fairly a methods off. The writers room for the brand new season had solely simply opened when it was shut down because of the WGA strike. Work on the third season gained’t resume till the writers obtain the truthful remedy they deserve.
As for what this mysterious episode may embrace, your guess is pretty much as good as mine. There are many threads that could possibly be picked as much as bridge the hole between seasons, or even perhaps a flashback explaining what occurred to the hunter whose cabin the Yellowjackets have been residing in.
Yellowjackets facilities on “a crew of wildly gifted highschool women soccer gamers who grow to be the (un)fortunate survivors of a airplane crash deep within the Ontario wilderness. The sequence will chronicle their descent from a sophisticated however thriving crew to warring, cannibalistic clans, whereas additionally monitoring the lives they’ve tried to piece again collectively almost 25 years later, proving that the previous isn’t actually previous and what started out within the wilderness is much from over.” You possibly can take a look at a assessment of the second season of Yellowjackets from our personal Alex Maidy right here.