Yellowjackets Will Reveal Why 2021 Timeline Started When It Did
Yellowjackets showrunners reveal that the upcoming season 2 will provide more context on why the modern-day narrative begins in 2021. The highly-anticipated Yellowjackets season 2 has been written and will begin production in late August. The hit series stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Sophie Nelisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, and Sammi Hanratty as both adult and teenage versions of the titular girls soccer team after they survive a horrific plane crash in the 1990s.
Half of Yellowjackets season 1narrative follows four women in 2021 as they receive postcards from an unknown source, causing them to reunite and search for answers regarding their shared experience in the wilderness. That inciting incident causes Natalie (Lewis) and Misty (Ricci) to discover the murder of Travis, kicking off the events of the rest of the season. While Yellowjackets season 1 left a lot of mysteries still to uncover, one question that is on many viewers' minds is why exactly the women were brought back together in 2021, rather than at another time.
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In an interview with Variety, the three creators/showrunners, Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, and Jonathan Lisco, discussed how Yellowjackets season 2 will feature more context as to why the 2021 timeline started when it did. Lisco put the 2021 setting down to «middle age,» saying that the characters feel trapped their lives after the «freedom» of the wilderness despite its trauma. However, Lyle said that she feels it's somewhat of an impossible question to answer, given that trauma can reveal itself at any stage of life, saying:
«I feel like it's actually a number of factors, a
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