‘Yellowjackets’ Bosses on the Parallels Between Pit Girl and [SPOILER], Hitting Reset With Season 3 and That Major Time Jump

variety.com:

Michaela Zee SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of “Yellowjackets” Season 3, streaming now on Paramount+ with Showtime.

The last time viewers saw the teen Yellowjackets, their cabin had been engulfed by flames, leaving them vulnerable and without shelter in the Canadian wilderness.

However, rather than continuing the 1990s timeline with the immediate aftermath of the cabin burning down, “Yellowjackets” Season 3 shifts to the summer, where the plane-crash survivors have established a makeshift village featuring wooden huts, a garden, and even a rabbit and duck farm.

Co-creator Ashley Lyle says that she and her fellow showrunners, Jonathan Lisco and Bart Nickerson, had an in-depth discussion about whether the latest season should continue in the wintertime or with a time jump. “Ultimately, it boiled down to really wanting a reset, and it felt to us as though the best way to just make a clean break was to do the time jump.