Yellowjackets is already in its third season, and viewers can’t get enough of its gritty plot and tough-as-nails characters. As the Showtime-backed series attracts more fans, some are wondering where its storyline was taken from. Many have even asked if Yellowjackets is based on a true story.
Yellowjackets co-creator Ashley Lyle previously told Deadline that she and husband Bart Nickerson didn’t want their series to be solely considered a young-adult (YA) genre creation.
“There’s a difference between shows that feature teenagers that are aimed at teenage viewers and shows that feature teenagers that are aimed at a more adult audience,” Ashley pointed out. “We always point to The Virgin Suicides, which is very much about teenage girls, but does not feel like YA. That being said, I think the networks are very aware of their brands and don’t tend to look at things that way. Shows about teenagers or that feature teenagers with ambitions to be something other than a classic YA show tend to frighten people a little bit. They aren’t something with a long track record. That is something we came up against when we were pitching it.”
Below, find out if Yellowjackets is based on a real story and more details about the hit TV series.
The premise of Yellowjackets followed a 1996 New Jersey high school’s girls’ soccer team, who was traveling to a tournament when their plane crashed over a Canadian wilderness. The survivors were left stranded for more than a year while fighting to survive.
Season 1 of Yellowjackets can be streamed on Netflix, but both seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Paramount+. Fans can watch new episodes of season 3 on Paramount+ with Showtime.
