Showtime has released a new teaser for Yellow Jackets Season 3, which not only confirms the official release date but also gives more hope about Ella Purnell’s return to the series as Jackie. It’s been almost two years since Yellow Jackets season 2 ended, with many mysteries about the wilderness of the past and the survivors of the present still demanding explanations. In a new teaser from Showtime that confirms Yellow Jackets‘season 3 premiere date February 14, 2025Short clips of teenagers in the desert are interspersed with images of a skull, symbol, and Jackie’s heart necklace.
Although Jackie died in Yellow JacketsAt the end of the first season, when she froze to death outside during the teens’ first winter in the desert, her character continued to have a major impact on narratives both past and present. As she was the first dead character the teens cannibalized, Jackie’s death and the guilt surrounding it led to her haunted spirit and memory Yellow Jackets‘general history. Whether through visions or flashbacks, Jackie has returned posthumously in both timelines, and Yellow Jackets The Season 3 teaser suggests that Ella Purnell will continue these spooky appearances.
Yellowjackets Season 3 Teaser Puts Main Focus on Jackie’s Heart Necklace
Jackie’s heart necklace apparently takes on a bigger role in season three
The latest teaser for Yellow Jackets season three doesn’t reveal much about the upcoming story, but it does reveal put a notable focus on teenager Shauna, a skull, symbol and Jackie’s heart necklace. These elements are all connected, with teenager Shauna drawing blood, eating some of her fellow survivors, becoming fascinated by the symbol’s mysterious powers and influence, and receiving Jackie’s heart necklace as a gift from her deceased friend. Yellow JacketsThe mysterious symbol has continued to be an important icon throughout the series, but season three appears to be elevating the significance of Jackie’s necklace.
The pilot episode already gave a deeper meaning to Jackie’s heart necklace, as it was worn by Yellow Jackets‘“pit girl” who was killed and cannibalized by the teenagers in a flash-forward. It was soon revealed that the necklace originally belonged to Jackie, but she gave it to Shauna as a “good luck charm” when they were flying on the plane that fell. This led to initial speculation that Jackie would become the pit girl, but her death in Yellow Jackets the first season debunked this theory. Still, Jackie’s necklace continues to play a role in teenagers’ sacrificial rituals.
During the inaugural ritual of the deck of cards in Yellow Jackets Season 2, Episode 8, Natalie is chosen to be sacrificed when drawing the Queen of Hearts. Shauna then gives Natalie the heart necklace as a “good luck charm” before Natalie runs away, just like when Jackie gave it to her. As it was in the pit girl and was given to Natalie after drawing the Queen of Hearts, It appears that the necklace will be given to each sacrificial victim as a symbol of good luck in the future. Yellow Jackets Season 3 to honor Jackiewhich his emphasized presence in the teaser supports.
Ella Purnell may return as Jackie to reveal the origins of the heart necklace in flashbacks
Yellowjackets may reveal the necklace’s history as it becomes corrupted in the sacrificial ritual
With the necklace apparently becoming an important symbol in jungle sacrifices, the object’s deeper connection to Jackie makes it likely that the character will return in season three. Yellow Jackets has already seen Jackie return through flashbacks to explain certain objects related to his history with Shauna, such as the revelations in his diary. Now that Jackie’s heart necklace is being corrupted and turned into a symbol of a cannibalistic murder ritual, it is a fitting time to include a flashback that explains who originally gave Jackie the necklace and what it meant to her before her death.
The heart necklace’s role in the sacrificial ritual causes Shauna to have more visions of Jackie
The necklace will continue to remind teen and adult Shauna of her guilt over Jackie’s death
After Jackie’s death at the end of season 1 Ella Purnell returned for three episodes in Yellow Jackets 2nd season when it appears in Shauna’s hallucinations. Although the main roles in Sweet pea, Arcaneand Precipitation have left Ella Purnell busier than ever, it’s still possible for the actress to reprise her Season 2 return by having brief, hallucination-based cameos in Yellow Jackets season 3. Shauna’s guilt over Jackie’s death and her cannibalism continue to haunt her in the past and present, so she will likely continue to have visions of Jackie as she integrates her friend’s necklace into rituals.
Teenage Jackie appeared as a hallucination by adult Shauna in Yellow Jackets season 1, episode 4, before she and Adam jump off a bridge into the water.
When teenager Shauna starts seeing more victims wearing Jackie’s old necklace, her guilt can cause her to have visions of Jackie being the one running through the jungle wearing the accessory again. Additionally, it’s unclear who has Jackie’s necklace in the current timeline, so adult Shauna could also have visions of teenage Jackie talking to her if she finds the object. Whichever timeline she appears in, Jackie’s memory is being heralded as an important aspect of Yellow Jackets more from season 3 “wild” story, which makes Ella Purnell’s potential return all the more important.