Yellowjackets Season 3 Premiere Sets New Viewership Record

Yellowjackets' season 3 premiere just set a new series record in terms of viewership. Created by Bart Nickerson and Ashley Lyle, the Showtime series first premiered in 2021, telling a dual-timeline story of a high school girls soccer team surviving in the wilderness after a plane crash and the lasting trauma from the ordeal decades later. Yellowjackets season 3 brought the thriller show back earlier this month, earning positive reviews as it continues the story following the destruction of the survivors' cabin in season 2.

Per Deadline, Paramount Global now reveals that the Yellowjackets season 3 premiere episode drew an impressive 2.03 million viewers in its debut weekend on Paramount+ with Showtime. This total includes viewers that watched the episode when it became available to stream on Friday, in addition to linear viewers that watched the premiere on Sunday night. The season 3 premiere beat the season 2 premiere, the previous record-holder, by an astonishing 58%, according to the company.

What Yellowjackets' Season 3 Premiere Viewership Means For The Show

Will There Be A Season 4?

With this latest record, it's clear that Yellowjackets is growing in popularity with each new season. The show's debut season was such a hit and Showtime was so confident in the series that it scored a season 3 renewal before season 2 was even released. The viewership numbers for the season 3 premiere suggest that Yellowjackets season 4 is likely, which would mean Lyle and Nickerson are one step closer to achieving their five-season plan for the show.

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What will be crucial to Yellowjackets' future, however, is sustained viewership success. The Yellowjackets season 2 finale ended the sophomore outing with a major question mark as the survivors' cabin burns down, meaning viewers were likely looking for answers with the season 3 premiere. Now that the immediate cliffhanger of what life looks like without the cabin has been more or less answered with the opening three episodes, Yellowjackets will need to maintain its mystery and its thrilling elements throughout the remainder of the season in order to keep viewership high.

Our Take On Yellowjackets Season 3's New Record

The Show Continues To Offer Up Excitement

With season 3's first few episodes, Yellowjackets continues to be one of the most unique shows on television. The series can be genuinely chilling and scary, but it balances this with moments of surprising humor, offering a tonal balance that's hard to pull off. It's clear that the journeys of the Yellowjackets cast of characters resonate with viewers as more about the show's central mystery is unveiled with each new episode.

If the rest of the season 3 episodes continue to deliver on story and character, this strong viewership could be sustained through to the finale. It's not clear when a season 4 announcement could arrive given the series' history with renewal confirmations, but one might not be far off following this latest record. Hopefully, there's lots more Yellowjackets still to come.