YELLOWJACKETS Co-Creator Teases Season 3 Will Answer Questions to Big Mysteries

While we wait for the release of Yellowjackets Season 3, we’ve got some first-look photos and insight on the next chapter of the story to share with you.

in a new interview with Vanity Fair, one of the show’s co-creators, Ashley Lyle, explained that Season 3 will dig into some big mysteries and deliver answers on things fans have been asking.

Lyle said: “This season is really when we start bringing those pieces together. It is very satisfying to have elements of this season that were planned from the very beginning.

“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.”

I’m curious to know what those big mysteries are, but I imagine they are about what happened in the wilderness. Lyle teased: “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.

“And I think that we have found ourselves—let me think of how to say this. The stakes are pretty high in the present-day storyline, perhaps in a way that they did not feel in season two, and that was really exciting for us to delve into.”

She went on to say: “There are at least two very big questions with very clear answers.”

Well, fans will be eagerly waiting to see what that will be. I would like it to involve the society and beliefs that were developed in the wilderness.

Yellowjackets is the saga of “a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.

“The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later, proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over.”

Yellowjackets director and producer Karyn Kusama previously teased what’s coming, saying: "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 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."

Lyle previously revealed that they have a five-season plan, and they are on track to deliver the full story they wanted to tell. When talking about the full plan that they initially pitched, they explained why they feel five seasons is the right stopping point.

Lyle said: "The original plan was about five seasons, and we feel like we're still on track for that. There's always room for things. We don't really see this as being more than a five-season show.

“I think that there are shows that can go forever, but I think that when you're telling such a deeply serialized story and it's about these characters' lives, you want to reach a satisfying conclusion and not just drag things out forever.

“This isn't really one of those setup shows where it can go anywhere. So far, we've been really on track. Season 2 is largely what we always planned, but you do make a lot of discoveries along the way and so it's always a little bit surprising."

Yellowjackets stars Melanie Lynskey, Sophie Nélisse, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Samantha Hanratty, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Courtney Eaton, Lauren Ambrose, Liv Hewson, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, and Kevin Alves. Joel McHale and Hilary Swank have also joined the show.

You can read more from Lyle over at Vanity Fair and check out some other exclusive images taken for the publication.