Yellowjackets has been gaining a lot of buzz since its premiere in 2021. With Season 2 recently ending, fans are feeling a little sad. Luckily, we’ve found seven great Yellowjackets-like shows to keep you entertained.
This mystery box survival drama follows the horrific travails of a girls’ soccer team after their plane crashes in the remote Ontario wilderness. It also reveals the equally traumatic effects for adult survivors, 25 years later.
Melanie Lynskey, Toni Cypress, Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis star as Shauna (Sophie Nelis), Taissa (Jasmine Savoy Brown), Misty (Sami Hanratty) and Natalie (Sophie Thatcher). After the breakup, the girls’ unit and friendships fall apart, Lord of the Flies-style. Decades later, they grapple with what really happened in the jungle and how it continues to burden them.
Showtime has already renewed Yellowjackets season 3, but it might be a good year or two before we can reasonably expect to see new episodes. In the meantime, here are seven shows like the Yellowjackets to watch.
prairie
While the shows below can all claim an element or two that makes Yellowjackets interesting, The Wilds is real blood for Showtime drama. The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls who are stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.
As the girls struggle to survive, they are also forced to confront sensitive topics including sexual abuse, manipulative relationships, and eating disorders. The only difference between crashing and yellowjackets? You will have to watch to find out. – Henry T Casey
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Cruel summer
Like the Yellowjackets, Freeform’s Cruel Summer is a teen mystery set in the ’90s, so the soundtrack is also a nostalgia-infused Gen X mixtape featuring the likes of the Cranberries and Spin Doctors and Garbage. Survival in the wilderness isn’t a major plot point, but the intensity and complexity of teen friendships is.
The first season alternates between the viewpoints of popular queen bee Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt) and lonely Janet Turner (Ciara Aurelia). After Kate’s disappearance, Janet begins to take over aspects of her life – her friends, her boyfriend, and her social status. Then Kate returns and accuses Janet of knowing the details of her kidnapping. – Kelly Wu
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Lost
The mother of all plane crash TV shows (sorry Gilligan), Lost was a cultural phenomenon, though you might have missed it. While Lost has no teens, just adults and a child named Walt, it does have a lot of what people love about the Yellowjackets. The story is simple, at first: Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashes on a mysterious island and the survivors have no idea what to do or how to do things.
Each of the stranded survivors carried their own past, their secrets, and their emotional baggage, and it all comes into focus. Just like in Yellowjackets, Lost divided the storytelling between different eras, originally showing what was happening on the island and what happened before it took off. You may have heard of the Yellowjackets as a “mystery box” show, and Lost was one show that popularized the term, slowly giving audiences crumbs of answers while new questions were regularly popped up. – HTC
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List A
Unlike the yellow vests, teenagers are on the first list He chooses to venture into the wilderness, believing it to be a perfect place. It is … at first. Then some strange supernatural events turn him into a nightmare. They sound familiar.
Mia (Lisa Ambalavanar) arrives at the Peregrine Island camp expecting to be the most popular girl there. She befriends fellow fashion-forward Kylie (Savannah Baker) and flirts with handsome Dave (Jacob Dodman). Then, Amber (Ellie Duckles) shows up and becomes Mia’s rival. Everyone loves the new girl, but Mia is the only one who sees her dark side. – kilowatt
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100
While the Yellowjackets showed personal relationships wracked by betrayals and secrets, they gave us this content in a way befitting what many would call “prestige television.” Less guilty pleasure, more “You must watch this!” The CW drama The 100 goes the other way, as you might expect from a CW series. Its ability to be wildly wild is also enabled by its premise: nearly a century after a nuclear accident practically wipes out all life on Earth, the remaining parts of humanity live on a space station in Earth’s orbit.
And just as you do, the adults decide to bring 100 troubled teens back to Earth to try to rebuild society. Normal adult decisions. The Hundred, as it’s called, runs as smoothly as you’d expect. On Earth, they discover people who survived nuclear disasters, but the infighting between the teens is central to the drama at hand. The 100 ran for 7 seasons (with 100 episodes). – HTC
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dare me
Teenage girls who are part of a competitive team? check. Toxic friendships depend on coexistence? Check Bullying and Peer Pressure? check. killing? twists? shocks? All checks. Dare Me feels like a soul sister to the Yellowjackets. The only missing aspect is a plane crash.
The short-lived USA series follows a group of high school cheerleaders who become entangled in a web of dark secrets after the arrival of a new coach, Colette French (Willa Fitzgerald). She soon drives a wedge between her friends Addie (Herizin Guardiola) and Beth (Marlo Kelly), whose relationship turns into a psychological cage match. – kilowatt
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Community
While some of the Yellowjackets’ star athletes have found their way home, at least there was a home to go back to. The teens of The Society are faced with an entirely different problem: They have returned from a canceled field trip to find that their town (West Ham, CT) is completely empty. Making matters worse, they seem cut off from the outside world.
So, much like the teens in the cabin in the Yellowjackets, these students have to build a world to live in while trying to figure out what’s going on in the Twilight Zone. And as you might expect from a town created by teenagers, bickering and hormones undermine the ability to build and organize. And trust breaks down after one of them is killed. – HTC
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