The rescued teens in “Yellowjackets” return home to Wiskayok, New Jersey, as heroes, but the wilderness hasn’t left them. On-screen text in the November 5 trailer for the show’s 4th and final season warns, “Homecoming is savage.”
Showrunner Bart Nickerson says, “I don’t think anyone’s re-integration goes great.” He asks, “Once those systems have come online, how do you turn them off when food is in a supermarket, when there are parents with thoughts and feelings, and just the very rigid nature of society?”
Teen Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown) tells a homecoming crowd, “More than anything, we survived because of love,” while the trailer shows teammates beating someone in snowy woods.
Back in town, teen Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) sees dead Coach Ben (Steven Krueger) in a bathroom mirror, but he’s gone when she turns.
Co-creator Ashley Lyle says the girls’ approach to explaining what happened is “to essentially plead the fifth.” Lyle describes the 2 timelines this way: “they are going to be reentering society, whereas in the present, they are starting to leave their societal lives behind in a pretty significant way.”
In the present-day footage, Melissa (Hilary Swank) apparently sits for a TV interview about the wilderness with her wife Alex (Jaylee Hamidi) beside her. Callie (Sarah Desjardins) demands answers from her mother Shauna (Melanie Lynskey).
Season 4 premieres November 20, 2026, exclusively on Paramount+ with the Premium plan, with new episodes arriving weekly.
