Yellowjackets to End With Season 4: Showtime’s Cult Hit Is Buzzing Toward Its Final Flight

After three seasons of cannibalistic chaos, cryptic cults, and more trauma than a therapy convention, Showtime’s Yellowjackets is officially wrapping things up. The network has confirmed that Yellowjackets Season 4 will be the final season, bringing the wild survival drama to a close. So yes, we’re getting answers. Maybe.

From its chilling first episode to its layered timelines and pitch-perfect casting, Yellowjackets quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Viewers couldn’t get enough of the stranded soccer team who turned feral in the 90s and the adult survivors still haunted by their past. Now, after several Emmy nominations and a passionate fanbase built on Reddit theories and TikTok breakdowns, the end is officially in sight.

Variety first reported the news, with showrunners Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson confirming that the series was always meant to run for four to five seasons. Turns out four is the magic number. And honestly, thank the forest gods for that. There's only so much psychological spiraling and cryptic antler symbolism we can take before our own group chat starts descending into madness.

“After three incredible seasons, and great consideration, we’re excited to announce that we will be bringing the story of Yellowjackets to its twisted conclusion in this fourth and final season,” co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson said in a statement. “We’ve always known there would come a point when the story would tell us it wants to end, and it’s our belief that our job — our responsibility — is to listen.”

Showtime has not released an exact premiere date for Yellowjackets Season 4, but production is reportedly set to begin this winter in Vancouver. That gives the writers enough time to clean up the increasingly tangled timelines and maybe, just maybe, tell us what the hell the symbol actually means.

While fans may be sad to say goodbye, wrapping up with Season 4 feels like the right move. Yellowjackets has always been more about long-term psychological fallout than dragging out mysteries for shock value. With Season 3 already teasing major character shakeups and deeper dives into the show’s mythos, Season 4 looks set to go full throttle into the past and present horror show.

Showtime’s recent merger into the Paramount streaming ecosystem likely played a role in the decision to stick the landing instead of stretching the series too thin. And let’s be real. No one wants a Lost-level meltdown. We’ve suffered enough.

Yellowjackets was messy, gripping, weirdly spiritual, and unapologetically dark. It gave us iconic performances from Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, and Tawny Cypress, and it did it all without ever feeling like a knockoff of something else.

So stockpile your honey, brace for blood, and prepare for one last season in the woods. The hive is closing, and we’re going out with a scream.