Yellowjackets Season 4 premieres Friday, Nov. 20, exclusively on Paramount+ for subscribers to the Paramount+ Premium plan. The fourth season will be the final season of the acclaimed drama series.
Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets follows a girls’ high-school soccer team after a plane crash strands them in the northern wilderness, while also revealing how the survivors’ lives unfold nearly 25 years later.
Key facts
- Season: Season 4
- Premiere date: Friday, Nov. 20, 2026
- Streaming: Paramount+ (Paramount+ Premium plan)
- Status: Final season
- Creators/showrunners: Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson
- Returning stars: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Hilary Swank, and more
- Previous seasons: Seasons 1-2 streaming on Paramount+ (all plans); Season 3 (Paramount+ Premium plan)
When does Season 4 premiere?
Yellowjackets Season 4 premieres Friday, Nov. 20, on Paramount+, and streams for subscribers with the Paramount+ Premium plan.
Season 4 will bring the story into its final season as the timeline in the wilderness moves closer to the survivors’ rescue.
How can you watch Season 4?
Yellowjackets Season 4 will stream exclusively on Paramount+ for Paramount+ Premium plan subscribers, beginning Friday, Nov. 20.
All previous seasons of Yellowjackets are also available to watch on Paramount+: Seasons 1-2 stream with a subscription to any plan; Season 3 streams with a subscription to the Paramount+ Premium plan.
Is there a Season 4 trailer?
Paramount+ has released a Season 4 Date Announcement video. You can watch it here. Prepare to get chills.
What is Season 4 about?
In Yellowjackets Season 4, rescue draws closer to the teens’ wilderness location, but the survivors’ long-awaited salvation threatens to expose their darkest secrets. In the present-day timeline, an old flame has a homecoming of her own, returning to town with a hidden agenda. Happy returns? Not in the Yellowjackets’ world.
The show continues tracing what happened to the team members in the days and months directly after the plane crash, as well as how the remaining Yellowjackets are living their lives two decades later.
Who is in the Season 4 cast?
The Season 4 cast of Yellowjackets is as large as the Canadian wilderness. Well, okay, maybe not that big, but certainly as awe-inspiring. Learn more about the stars of Yellowjackets Season 4 and the characters they play here. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!
Melanie Lynskey as adult Shauna Sadecki (née Shipman)
Emmy® nominee Melanie Lynskey plays the adult Shauna Shipman, a plane crash survivor who is now married to Jeff Sadecki (Warren Kole) and raising their teen daughter, Callie (Sarah Desjardins). Dissatisfied with the life she’s built since returning from the wilderness, Shauna begins trying to reclaim the sense of power and agency she felt while stranded there.
Where you’ve seen her: Ever After, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Two and a Half Men, The Last of Us
Christina Ricci as adult Misty Quigley
Emmy® nominee Christina Ricci plays the adult Misty Quigley, a crash survivor who thrived in the forest, where her indifference to gore and handy-dandy first aid skills made her a useful person to have around. As an adult, Misty continues to insert herself wherever she might be needed – even if she’s not wanted.
Where you’ve seen her: The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Sleepy Hollow, Monster, Pan Am
Tawny Cypress as adult Taissa Turner
Tawny Cypress plays the adult Taissa Turner, star soccer player turned star politician. As an adult, the seemingly perfect family and career she’s built are threatened by increasingly bizarre behaviors she can’t control (and sometimes can’t even remember). As these episodes become harder to ignore, so does a question Taissa would rather not entertain: Could spiritual forces from the wilderness have followed her home?
Where you’ve seen her: Heroes, K-Ville, House of Cards, Unforgettable
Sophie Nélisse as teenage Shauna Shipman
Sophie Nélisse plays the teenage Shauna Shipman, who’s become hardened and angered by all the death and deprivation she’s experienced in the past year. She begins to find satisfaction in seeing the people who hurt her get hurt in return. After all, why should she be the only one who feels so much pain? And when someone carrying that much hurt gains ultimate power, watch out …
Where you’ve seen her: Monsieur Lazhar, Irena’s Vow, Heated Rivalry
Jasmin Savoy Brown as teenage Taissa Turner
Jasmin Savoy Brown plays the teenage Taissa Turner, a competitive soccer player used to finding logical pathways to success. But the forest she’s trapped in doesn’t deal in logic. When Taissa starts experiencing disturbing visions and gravitating toward trees marked with a mysterious symbol, she realizes she can no longer rely on her rationalism. But can she embrace the mystical explanations her teammates do?
Where you’ve seen her: The Leftovers, Scream (2022), Scream VI, Scream 7
Sophie Thatcher as teenage Natalie Scatorccio
Sophie Thatcher plays the teenage Natalie Scatorccio, whose turbulent home life taught her plenty about self-preservation even before the crash. But as many of her fellow Yellowjackets become as wild and merciless as their surroundings, Natalie refuses to smother the flicker of humanity beneath the defenses she’s developed to survive. She still believes she and her teammates can return to civilization, and she’s going to find a way out of the wilderness if it’s the last thing she does. And if those determined to stay have anything to say about it, it just may be.
Where you’ve seen her: When the Streetlights Go On, The Boogeyman, Heretic, Companion
Samantha Hanratty as teenage Misty Quigley
Samantha Hanratty plays the teenage Misty Quigley, a school misfit who fits in better than she ever could have imagined once she becomes a wilderness survivor. With her first aid skills and near-pathological desire to please, she’s a useful presence to have around. She also happens to carry a few major secrets. She may be clever enough to keep them hidden, but in this wilderness, secrets have a way of following a girl home.
Where you’ve seen her: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Greening of Whitney Brown
Courtney Eaton as teenage Charlotte “Lottie” Matthews
Courtney Eaton plays the teenage Charlotte “Lottie” Matthews, who’s off her schizophrenia meds and utterly convinced she understands what the wilderness wants. Enough of Lottie’s prophecies have come true that many Yellowjackets begin trusting her with their survival, even as the line between clairvoyance and trauma grows harder to see. Does Lottie really have a gift, or do her teammates just need to believe she does?
Where you’ve seen her: Mad Max: Fury Road, Gods of Egypt, Line of Duty
Liv Hewson as teenage Vanessa “Van” Palmer
Liv Hewson plays the teenage Vanessa “Van” Palmer, who has survived a brutal mauling, the Lord of the Flies-style splintering of her beloved soccer team, and the wilderness’s growing hold on her. But Van dreams of returning to civilization and building a real life with her “secret” girlfriend, Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown). As some of her fellow Yellowjackets have stopped sharing her desire to leave, Van realizes that getting home may mean breaking free from them first.
Where you’ve seen her: Santa Clarita Diet, Bombshell, Among Us
Warren Kole as Jeff Sadecki
Warren Kole plays Jeff Sadecki, husband to Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) and dad to Callie (Sarah Desjardins). Aware of how much suffering his wife endured in the wilderness, Jeff has given Shauna plenty of latitude over the years. But he’s getting tired of standing by as his “better half” slips off for secret rendezvous or engages in random acts of violence – then having to explain to Callie why Mom leaves a trail of blood wherever she goes. For Jeff, it’s time to quit being a domestic doormat and start making moves of his own.
Where you’ve seen him: Common Law, Shades of Blue
Kevin Alves as Travis Martinez
Kevin Alves plays Travis Martinez, whose father and brother have been taken by the unfeeling wilderness. Now the only male in an increasingly volatile community, Travis feels isolated, traumatized, and desperate for something – anything – to believe in. This makes him especially susceptible to the mysticism of Lottie (Courtney Eaton), and the revelations her prophecies seem to offer. They may be the only thing standing between him and rock bottom.
Where you’ve seen him: Degrassi: The Next Generation, Shadowhunters, Locke & Key.
Sarah Desjardins as Callie Sadecki
Sarah Desjardins plays Callie Sadecki, daughter of Shauna and Jeff (Melanie Lynskey and Warren Kole). Though she’s never had to survive the perils of the Canadian wilderness, Callie takes after her mother when it comes to diving headfirst into danger. She knows her parents are in trouble, and if they won’t come clean about their secrets, she’s determined to uncover them herself. But as Callie discovers what her folks are capable of, she starts to wonder how much of the truth she actually wants to inherit.
Where you’ve seen her: Van Helsing, Riverdale, The Night Agent
Nia Sondaya as Akilah
Nia Sondaya plays Akilah, who struggles with wilderness visions of her own and whether to trust the supposed psychic powers of Lottie (Courtney Eaton). She sees that, for all of Lottie’s prophecies, the team is no closer to finding a way home, and morale is about as low as it can get. Armed with a natural affinity for animals, survival skills picked up in Girl Scouts, and growing faith in her own instincts, Akilah may be ready to go her own way.
Where you’ve seen her: Bel Air, Truth Be Told
Jenna Burgess as teenage Melissa
Jenna Burgess plays the teenage Melissa, a young woman who has survived by keeping her head down. That is, until she realizes there’s an advantage to getting on the good side of Shauna (Sophie Nélisse). Becoming lover and yes-woman to the most volatile Yellowjacket offers Melissa something valuable: protection. But loyalty, she knows, can only get her so far. If enough people turn against Shauna, Melissa is smart enough to switch sides, and savvy enough to do it without seeming disloyal to her other teammates. Until then, she’s watching and waiting.
Where you’ve seen her: Lies Between Friends, Tracker
Hilary Swank as adult Melissa
Two-time Oscar® winner Hilary Swank plays the adult Melissa, who seemingly wants to sever ties with the past so badly that she faked her death and changed her name to escape it. Yet she’s bound herself to that past in the most intimate of ways: marrying the daughter of one of her wilderness companions. She’s also reached back out to Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) in an effort to “unburden” herself of their history, which only brings old baggage back into her life. But perhaps a reckoning with her fellow Yellowjacket is exactly what Melissa wanted all along …
Where you’ve seen her: Iron Jawed Angels, Boys Don’t Cry, The Gift, Million Dollar Baby
Who are the Season 4 guest stars?
Get ready for some exciting additions to the nest. The Season 4 guest stars include:
- ’80s idol Molly Ringwald (Pretty in Pink, Teaching Mrs. Tingle)
- Oscar® nominee June Squibb (Thelma)
Season 4 creative team
Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson return as Yellowjackets Season 4 showrunners and executive producers. Drew Comins, Jonathan Lisco, Jeff W. Byrd, Sarah L. Thompson, Ameni Rozsa, and Julia Bicknell also serve as executive producers.
Is Season 4 the final season?
Yes. Yellowjackets Season 4 is the final season of the Emmy® -nominated drama series.
Where can you watch previous seasons of Yellowjackets?
You can watch all previous seasons of Yellowjackets on Paramount+: Seasons 1-2 stream for all subscribers; Season 3 streams for subscribers with the Paramount+ Premium plan.
Yellowjackets Season 4 premieres Friday, Nov. 20, on Paramount+ (Paramount+ Premium plan required).
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What is Season 1 about?
Yellowjackets Season 1 introduces us to a 1990s New Jersey girls’ high-school soccer team that’s bound for a national-championship tournament – that is, until their Seattle-bound plane crashes in the middle of nowhere. At first, the teens’ hunting, foraging, and – yes – cooperation skills serve them well enough. But when the weather worsens and help appears no closer to arriving, the tight-knit teammates begin to turn on one another.
Fast-forward to the present day, and we see only a few of the original Yellowjackets have lived into adulthood – each one of them struggling to keep buried their traumas, resentments, and misdeeds.
WATCH NOW: Yellowjackets Season 1
What is Season 2 about?
Yellowjackets Season 2 finds the teenagers struggling to endure the freezing winter months. Undernourished and desperate to maintain hope, some of the girls find comfort in their own hallucinations, while others look for guidance in the spiritual visions of another – a team member who seems to commune with the woods in a way the rest of the survivors cannot. As the Yellowjackets’ beliefs in the forest’s power diverge, and their collective hunger mounts, the things they’re willing to do to quell the growl in their bellies become more and more feral …
During the present day, six adult Yellowjackets reunite to figure out who’s out to expose their secrets. In getting back together, the crew discovers that the wilderness isn’t done with them, and that it may, in fact, require another sacrifice.
WATCH NOW: Yellowjackets Season 2
What is Season 3 about?
Spring arrives. And while the season signifies renewal, the Yellowjackets’ grievances toward one another just keep piling up, and it’s not long before more blood splatters on the forest floor. This time, however, the spirit of the wilderness may not be the only entity that hears the commotion …
In the present, the former soccer stars work to keep their lives from unraveling, each facing a troubling question: Is it a vague woodland force from their past that poses the bigger threat to them, or their fellow Yellowjackets?
WATCH NOW: Yellowjackets Season 3 (Paramount+ Premium plan)
