Is it a Yellowjackets trailer, or is it a creepy short video for Florence + the Machine’s cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl”? Honestly, it works either way. Showtime’s drama about teen girls stranded in the wilderness—and their adult selves, still haunted by the experience—returns later this month, and now we get a tiny bit more of a peek at what season two has in store.
One of the things this season has to offer is, of course, Elijah Wood, hanging out with the all-star cast of ’90s actors who play the adult roles: Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, and Tawny Cypress, who are joined this time around by Simone Kessell (playing adult Lottie, who can maybe help the rest of the gang) and Lauren Ambrose (playing adult Van). Wood’s role has been described as “a dedicated Citizen Detective,” which, y’know, could be trouble.
Yellowjackets’ cast of teens includes Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Ella Purnell, and Liv Hewson, all of whom continue to have a very rough time out in the wilderness as winter sets in. The season’s summary is brief:
The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer, but now as winter begins to bite, we’ll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. Meanwhile, 25 years later, each survivor must determine if the darkness is coming for them or from them.
As the trailer’s ominous last line says, shit’s gonna get a lot worse out there. Yellowjackets returns March 24th on Showtime.
