Will There Be a Season 4 of Yellowjackets? Here’s What We Know So Far About the Thriller’s Next Chapter

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Creators have spoken openly about their plans for ‘Yellowjackets’

The school yearbook has closed on another shocking season of Yellowjackets.

Since the thriller drama first premiered in November 2021, it has featured a mix of high school drama, wilderness survival, cannibalism and some epic ’90s needle drops. After a season filled with surprising deaths, no one is safe in either the adult or teen timelines on the show.

The show’s cast — which originally included Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Simone Kessell and Elijah Wood — expanded in the new season, adding Hilary Swank and Joel McHale

The latest season of Yellowjackets ended with an episode appropriately titled “Full Circle” since it had “some payoff,” as actor Steven Krueger explained to PEOPLE. Meanwhile, Jasmin Savoy Brown, who portrays teen Taissa, teased that the season 3 finale “is a big one” and will have fans “screaming at their TVs.”

At Deadline‘s Contenders TV panel for Yellowjackets, co-creator Ashley Lyle said tackling each new season is “terrifying, but it’s a really exciting challenge.”

“Luckily, the design of the show and the concept of the show was such that we knew each season would get crazier and more chaotic and more violent and deranged,” she explained.

So will there be a season 4 of Yellowjackets? Here’s everything to know about the drama, including the latest renewal news and what cast members have shared.

Will there be a season 4 of Yellowjackets?

Simone Kessell as Lottie in Yellowjackets.

While Yellowjackets has not been officially renewed for a fourth season, the series has had an increase in ratings this year.

In February 2025, Paramount Global announced that the season 3 premiere outperformed the previous season’s first episode, with “just over 2 million viewers across Showtime and Paramount+,” per Variety.

Additionally, Deadline reported the following month that the “season 3 viewership is up 39% over season 2 on Paramount+ with Showtime,” and that doesn’t include viewers for the Showtime linear channel, where Yellowjackets airs on Sunday nights.

When will Yellowjackets season 4 premiere?

Tawny Cypress as Taissa and Melanie Lynskey as Shauna in Yellowjackets.

Since the series hasn’t been given the green light for new episodes, a premiere date has yet to be announced.

In the past, season 1 debuted in November 2021, season 2 in March 2023 and season 3 in February 2025.

There were nearly two years between seasons 2 and 3, so if the same schedule is kept, we should expect to reunite with the Wiskayok High schoolers sometime in 2027.

Who is returning for Yellowjackets season 4?

Liv Hewson as Teen Van and Lauren Ambrose as Van in Yellowjackets.

At the moment, so no cast members have been confirmed to return to Yellowjackets.

In September 2022, Lynskey, who has received two Emmy nominations for her Yellowjackets role, told PEOPLE, “I’ll do this show as long as I can, honestly.”

What have the Yellowjackets creators said about season 4?

Samantha Hanratty as Teen Misty in Yellowjackets.

Series co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have said they envision a handful of installments to tell the Yellowjackets story.

“The original plan was about five seasons, and we feel like we’re still on track for that,” Lyle told Entertainment Weekly in March 2023. “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,” she continued. “This isn’t really one of those setup shows where it can go anywhere.”

At Deadline‘s Contenders TV panel, Lyle said, “We pitched this show seven years ago. We have an endpoint in mind.”

“We know where we’re heading, but we have an absolute brilliant group of writers that we’re working [with]. We have the writers room,” she explained. “We have our incredible collaborators in our actors and so we know where we want to go, but we want to leave some room for how we get there.”

While speaking about the ending of season 3, Nickerson told The L.A. Times, “We are kind of banking on another season … [but] sorry, if we do get canceled.”