Yellowjackets showrunner reveals bonus episode is coming

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Yellowjackets season 2 wrapped up last week – except, well, it looks like it didn't. A "bonus episode" is on the way, according to showrunner Ashley Lyle. Rumors of an extra installment have been floating around the internet for a while, as season 2 was one episode shorter than season 1, but nothing has been confirmed until now.

"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 tweeted in response to a fan who said they were staying up late in case a new episode dropped at midnight on Friday, the usual Yellowjackets release time on Paramount Plus. 

Another reason why fans have been confident that Yellowjackets season 2 episode 9 wasn't the end of the second season is because of a piece of casting information that has yet to come to fruition – Jason Ritter, the real-life husband of Shauna actor Melanie Lynskey, was revealed to be joining the season in a guest role back in December 2022. However, he didn't appear in any of the season's nine episodes, but a behind-the-scenes photo shows that he definitely made it to set.

Ritter's role was never revealed, but fans have speculated that he could portray a previously unseen character on the show – the man who lived in the cabin where the plane crash survivors take shelter once winter arrives in the wilderness. When the girls first stumble across the long-abandoned cabin, they find the corpse of a man in a rocking chair, but other than that – and the mysterious symbol carved into the building – we don't know anything about who he is or what he was doing there. Other than the fact that things evidently don't end well for him, of course. 

So, could a flashback episode be on the cards? And could we