The BEST episodes of Yellowjackets
Every episode of Yellowjackets ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Yellowjackets!
A wildly talented high school girl soccer team becomes the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.
#1 - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/2022
On the night of their 25-year class reunion, the Yellowjackets navigate damning evidence, false alibis and a dubious attempt to “heal.” In the wilderness, the Doomcoming fallout finds everything firmly off the rails as simmering resentments come to a head.
#2 - Doomcoming
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/2022
On the brink of death, the Yellowjackets opt to throw one last rager before careening into oblivion. An increasingly paranoid Shauna struggles between keeping her cool and being Shauna.
#3 - Flight of the Bumblebee
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/2/2022
While in triage after a vicious attack, the Yellowjackets are left to suss out the best of their worst ideas. Shauna dabbles in some light cyberstalking.
#4 - Qui
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/7/2023
Trapped inside on a snow day, the Yellowjackets revisit the highlights, humiliations and traumas of “Health Class.” Tai and Van help each other kindly rewind, Misty explores joining a classic Cosmic American tribute band, Lisa helps Natalie carp the day, and Shauna gets a pop-quiz on her cookie-reading assignment.
#5 - It Chooses
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/21/2023
Shhh, it’s only going to get worse from here. Despite the whole “winter never’s gonna end” thing, the 1996 New Jersey state girls soccer champions decide to start their spring training early with an impromptu cardio session. Callie encounters an old flame, Van proves goalies never say die, most of the adults intentionally commune in the sharing shack, and, Lottie, baby, I hear the blues are calling for tossed salad and scrambled eggs. Mercy!
#6 - Edible Complex
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/2/2023
The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we’ll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. While there may or may not be a dark and powerful force inhabiting the wilderness, their survival could depend upon what they choose to believe. Meanwhile, twenty-five years later, each survivor must ask themselves – Is the darkness coming for them, or is it coming from them?
#7 - F Sharp
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/2021
As the teens get their bearings among the wreckage, Misty finds hell on earth quite becoming. In the present: revenge, sex homework and the policeman formerly known as Goth.
#8 - Blood Hive
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2021
Out in the wilderness, the girls ride the crimson wave and plan a dark arts slumber party. Natalie and Misty tame a stallion. On Halloween night, Shauna parties like it’s 1996.
#9 - Storytelling
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/28/2023
Heavy is the head that wears the antler crown is a lesson you don’t learn until much later in life… if you ever even learn it at all. Everything’s about to get really wild(erness), and we’re so excited (so excited!) and so, so scared to find out who paid attention to what lessons and when. So, on the count of three, you may pick up your pencil, open your testing booklet, and start this finale exam. One… Two…
#10 - Saints
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/19/2021
The Yellowjackets tangle with the birds & the bees, navigating love, lust and DIY surgery. In the present : blackmail, bunnies and an icy reunion. Misty prepares for a surprise(d) houseguest.
#11 - No Compass
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/26/2021
In the wilderness, Taissa leads a last desperate attempt to keep the team from starving to death, but the effort could get them killed regardless; the Yellowjackets are faced with the terrifying possibility of small talk during stressful times.
#12 - Two Truths and a Lie
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/23/2023
Okay, Fellowjackets, rise and shine and don't forget your booties because it's coooold out there. Misty makes a leap of faith for her bestie, Natalie and Lottie play a game of surrender, Shauna finds herself unexpectedly randy, and Tai seeks out a movie recommendation.
#13 - Bear Down
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2021
The girls play with guns to determine who is the most responsible. Natalie untangles a lifetime of piecing together broken men. Taissa greets the rich.
#14 - Old Wounds
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/16/2023
Relive your youth by hitting the road! Take a roadtrip with your child! Go on vacation with a new friend! Hitchhike, if you must! Just make sure you pack a good playlist for the ride. Some recommendations from us: “Anything You Can Do,” “You Get What You Give,” “Instinct,” a famous composition by Frank Comstock, but absolutely not anything from “Starlight Express”.
#15 - Friends, Romans, Countrymen
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2023
Two months into winter the survivors cope with falling rations, low morale and their latest disastrous attempt to freeze a teammate out of the game. Shauna explores the secondary market for Yellowjackets memorabilia, while Taissa, Misty and Natalie all seek out best friends, both old and new. For those of you keeping the stat book: Lottie Matthews comes in off the bench.
#16 - The Dollhouse
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/2021
The Yellowjackets debate the merits of probably dying while staying put or probably dying while looking for shelter. Taissa navigates a dirty attack ad and the other C-word. Shauna sees about a boy.
#17 - Burial
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/14/2023
Sometimes the best therapy is cranking the hits to eleven, so today we’re exploring the hardcore kid-care revival movement, 11 o’clock theatrical birdcore numbers, some late hits of the renovationwave era (call us about a spinoff!), flower duets, and a classic live record. Out in the wilderness, Coach Scott does a great Karl Havoc impression for an unimpressed Misty.
#18 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/14/2021
On the eve of a fateful flight, a championship high school girls soccer squad celebrates being a team by betraying one another. 25 years later, the survivors do their best imitations of well-adjusted people. Season premiere.
#19 - Digestif
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/9/2023
The girls experience an unusual hangover. Shauna learns the thrill of peer-to-peer car rentals. Natalie audits Lottie’s class in emotional apiology. Tai reflects, Misty hits the high seas, and you’ve never attended a baby shower like the one the Yellowjackets throw here.