Yellowjackets is an American drama series created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, which premiered on Showtime in November 2021. The series operates on two parallel timelines: one following a New Jersey girls' high school soccer team in 1996 who survive a plane crash in the remote Canadian wilderness and spend nineteen months there before rescue; the other following the adult survivors in 2021 as they grapple with the psychological aftermath, haunted by what they did to survive and by someone who seems to know their secrets. The show balances survival thriller, psychological horror, and black comedy with disarming tonal confidence.

In the past timeline, the teenage players are portrayed by Sophie Nélisse as the young Shauna, Jasmin Savoy Brown as young Taissa, Sophie Thatcher as young Natalie, and Samantha Hanratty as young Misty. Their adult counterparts in the present are played by Melanie Lynskey as Shauna, Tawny Cypress as Taissa, Juliette Lewis as Natalie, and Christina Ricci as Misty — a cross-generational casting pairing that has drawn significant critical praise. The wilderness sections lean increasingly into ritual, superstition, and an unresolved supernatural ambiguity that the series refuses to explain away.

Yellowjackets became one of Showtime's most-watched series premieres in more than a decade, earning Emmy nominations and quickly building a fervent online following drawn to its blend of Lord of the Flies survival psychology with adult noir conspiracy. The show has been renewed through multiple seasons. Critics have particularly praised Lynskey and Ricci's work in the adult timeline, and the series' refusal to resolve its central mystery on the audience's schedule. It streams on Paramount+ with the Showtime tier.