Key points
- The fourth and final season of Yellowjackets premieres Friday, Nov. 20, 2026, streaming on Paramount+ for Premium plan subscribers.
- Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci and Hilary Swank return, joined by guest stars Elijah Wood, Molly Ringwald and June Squibb.
- Seasons 1 to 3 already stream on Paramount+, so the 30 existing episodes are the place to start before the premiere.
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Yellowjackets ends its run on Friday, Nov. 20, 2026, when its fourth and final season starts streaming on Paramount+. The survival drama from Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson first premiered on Showtime in November 2021, and it now closes its story five years later.
Here is where and how to watch, what the first trailer shows, and a spoiler-light refresher on the first three seasons.
Paramount+ Premium plan required for the final season
According to Variety, season 4 premieres Nov. 20 on Paramount+ and is available to subscribers on the Premium plan. Paramount+’s own announcement also points viewers to that plan for the earlier seasons.
Paramount+ has confirmed only the launch date so far. The episode count and weekly release schedule have not been confirmed by Paramount+.
What the season 4 trailer reveals
The first trailer frames the final chapter as a homecoming. The official logline says the survivors race to bury their sins before rescue arrives, while an old flame comes back to town with her own agenda.
The teaser revealed in August stitched together footage from the first three seasons, TVLine noted. It closes on a panicked radio call from the season 3 finale, answered by an unidentified man who says he received the signal.
The season carries the subtitle « The Final Reckoning. »
Cast: Hilary Swank returns, Elijah Wood joins
The core ensemble is back across both timelines. Melanie Lynskey and Christina Ricci, both Emmy nominees for the show, lead the adult cast alongside Tawny Cypress, Warren Kole and two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank.
The teenage timeline again features Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins, Nia Sondaya and Jenna Burgess.
The final season also brings in a string of guest stars. Announced names include Elijah Wood, Molly Ringwald and June Squibb, along with Devon Sawa and Dulé Hill.
Lyle and Nickerson remain showrunners and executive producers. Lionsgate Television produces the series for Showtime, and Paramount Global Content Distribution handles it worldwide.
Seasons 1 to 3 recap, without spoilers
The premise is a 1996 plane crash. A gifted New Jersey high school girls’ soccer team goes down in the remote northern wilderness, and the survivors have to make it through months on their own.
The series alternates between that 1990s survival story and a present-day thread set 25 years later. As adults, the survivors who made it home are still dealing with what happened out there and what they did to stay alive.
Season 1 set up both timelines and the central mystery. Season 2 followed the group into a brutal winter while the adults’ secrets started to surface.
Season 3 ran ten episodes in early 2025, opening with two episodes on streaming on Feb. 14 and wrapping in April. According to Paramount, it was the show’s most-watched season, and its finale was the most-watched episode in the series’ history.
All three seasons stream on Paramount+. Viewers starting from scratch have about 30 episodes to get through before Nov. 20, roughly three per day across the remaining week.
What comes next for Yellowjackets
If the weekly schedule holds, the story will wrap in late January 2027, a little over five years after the show began. Episode titles and runtimes have not been announced yet. They should appear in the Paramount+ app once the premiere goes live.