‘Yellowjackets’ to Return Valentine’s Day, Hilary Swank Joins Cast

Your favorite soccer team (no, not Ted Lasso) will return in the new year. Get ready for Season Three of Yellowjackets.

Paramount + will drop two episodes of the new season on Feb. 14, to subscribers with a Showtime plan. Joining the new season is Hilary Swank, who last starred on the 2022 ABC series Alaska Daily. Swank is a two-time Oscar winner, who famously took home two Best Actress awards for 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry and 2004’s Million Dollar Baby. She also starred in 1994’s The Next Karate Kid (though she’s part of the franchise, she has yet to appear in the hit Netflix spinoff Cobra Kai).

Also joining this season is Joel McHale, best known for Community. He’s currently the host of the reality series House of Villains, and appeared as Carmy’s abusive chef David Fields on The Bear.

Yellowjackets, created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, follows a New Jersey soccer team across two timelines: their horrific plane crash and attempts at survival in the wilderness, and their adulthood as they reckon with the past. The adult cast stars Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, and others. The Season Two finale left fans in a whirlwind of shock, as the adult version of Natalie (played by Juliette Lewis) died from a phenobarbital injection.

Sophie Thatcher, who plays the teenage version of Natalie, recently told Rolling Stone what fans can expect for the new season. “I don’t know if this is setting the bar too high or if I’m allowed to say this, but people should be expecting answers,” she said. “It’s coming back to where the pilot was, which I think is perfect timing for that. It’s just becoming more and more unhinged, and Natalie goes through more than anything. And I said this last season, but I’ll keep saying it: Now you see what has made Natalie so messed up. There’s a bit more of that connection between me and Juliette now, even though now she’s gone. It was a fun season, but it was really fucking draining.”