Yellowjackets Season 2 Interview: Van’s Original Death, Adding New Characters & More

It is not easy to deliver big with a sophomore season when you’ve set the bar so astronomically high for yourselves with your debut. That’s the exact position Yellowjackets showrunners Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, and Jonathan Lisco put themselves in. But, it seems as though they found the ideal blend of having a strong roadmap but being willing to adapt when unexpected opportunities arise because Yellowjackets Season 2 soars in some mighty satisfying ways, but also in ways I never saw coming. In Season 2, the 1996 timeline kicks off about two months after Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) death. It’s winter, there’s little to no food left, and the Yellowjackets are starting to succumb to darker impulses. Meanwhile, in the present-day timeline, everyone’s scattered. Natalie’s (Juliette Lewis) just been kidnapped, Misty’s (Christina Ricci) busy looking for her, Taissa’s (Tawny Cypress) struggling to deal with more frequent visits from “the other,” and Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) is trying to keep the cops from findi