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Yellowjackets Soundtrack Season 2 (2023) Guide

Yellowjackets

Showtime 7.4 Drama | Mystery 2023

The second season of Yellowjackets intensifies the harrowing dual-timeline mystery as the stranded 1996 soccer team faces a brutal, unforgiving winter in the Canadian wilderness, forcing them to make unfathomable and horrific choices to survive the starvation and psychological toll. Their desperate reality shifts from accidental cannibalism to structured, ritualistic human hunting, deeply altering the survivors' sanity and bond. Meanwhile, 25 years later in the present day, the adult survivors reluctantly reunite at Lottie's mysterious wilderness wellness commune, where they must confront the manifestations of their shared childhood trauma, a dangerous blackmail plot, and the terrifying realization that the dark force they left in the woods has followed them back into civilization.

Plunging headfirst into the subzero depths of an unforgiving Canadian winter, Yellowjackets Season 2 chronicles the stranded team's harrowing psychological descent as starvation transforms primal survival instincts into organized, blood-soaked ritualism. While the 1996 timeline confronts the shocking aftermath of Jackie's fate and the life-or-death gamble of the wilderness card draw, the present-day timeline reunites the adult survivors at Lottie Matthews' secluded purple-clad wellness compound in upstate New York. Enriched by the magnetic additions of Lauren Ambrose as adult Van, Simone Kessell as adult Lottie, and Elijah Wood as eccentric citizen detective Walter Tattersall, the second installment escalates into a gripping examination of inherited trauma, police scrutiny, and the inescapable gravitational pull of the forest.

Darker, heavier, and more ritualistic than its predecessor, the Yellowjackets Season 2 soundtrack amplifies the characters' descent into madness with haunting 1990s alternative anthems and exclusive recordings. Headlined by Florence + the Machine's brooding, bespoke cover of No Doubt's 'Just A Girl' and Alanis Morissette's re-recorded main title theme, the season delivers unforgettable needle drops—from Radiohead's claustrophobic 'Climbing Up the Walls' scoring the grotesque Feast of Jackie to The Smashing Pumpkins' furious 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' driving the deadly hunt in 'It Chooses'. Spanning Nirvana's melancholic 'Something In the Way', The Cranberries' devastating 'Zombie', Garbage's '#1 Crush', and Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker's eerie 'Blood Hive 2' score, the music mirrors the visceral terror of survival.

Soundtrack by Episode

Episode 1: Friends, Romans, Countrymen (Mar 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.

Episode 2: Edible Complex (Apr 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?

Episode 3: Digestif (Apr 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.

Episode 4: Old Wounds (Apr 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”.

Episode 5: Two Truths and a Lie (Apr 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.

Episode 6: Qui (May 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.

Episode 7: Burial (May 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.

Episode 8: It Chooses (May 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!

Episode 9: Storytelling (May 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…

Blood Hive 2 (Original Score from the TV Series Yellowjackets)

Whether you are looking for the visceral song accompanying the snow-covered feast in 'Edible Complex', the frantic heartbeat of the woods in 'Qui', or the devastating aftermath of the compound ritual and cabin blaze in 'Storytelling', SeekerTune provides the definitive Yellowjackets Season 2 music directory. Explore every needle drop across all nine episodes with precise scene contexts, 30-second audio previews, and direct streaming links for Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, capturing the full emotional weight of Showtime's survival masterclass.

Main Cast

  • Melanie Lynskey Shauna Sadecki
  • Tawny Cypress Taissa Turner
  • Sophie Nélisse Teen Shauna Shipman
  • Jasmin Savoy Brown Teen Taissa Turner
  • Sophie Thatcher Teen Natalie Scatorccio
  • Sammi Hanratty Teen Misty Quigley
  • Warren Kole Jeff Sadecki
  • Christina Ricci Misty Quigley

Official Trailer

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Complete Soundtrack List - All Songs Played in Every Episode

Episode Song Title Artist
E1 Just A Girl (From The Original Series “Yellowjackets”) Florence + the Machine
E1 Seventeen Sharon Van Etten
E1 No Return (Extended Version) Craig Wedren, Anna Waronker
E1 Drown The Smashing Pumpkins
E1 #1 Crush Garbage
E1 The Glory of Love Jimmy Durante
E1 Last Resort Papa Roach
E1 Cornflake Girl Tori Amos
E1 A Night in Rio Graham de Wilde
E2 No Return (Extended Version) Craig Wedren, Anna Waronker
E2 No Room for a Nihilist in Hollywood Peachy!
E2 Inertia Creeps Massive Attack
E2 Little Queenie SadGirl
E2 Climbing Up the Walls Radiohead
E3 When I Go Walking Popecoke
E3 Seether Veruca Salt
E3 Take Me Down Sonica Disturbia
E3 These Are Days 10,000 Maniacs
E3 Past Not Forgotten The Parachute Men
E3 Bells for Her Tori Amos
E4 Rainbow Tour Andrew Lloyd Webber
E4 Just Get over It James Donald Davies & Martin Jackson
E4 Baptism / The Light Craig Wedren, Anna Waronker
E4 Won't Waste a Day James Donald Davies
E4 Angst In My Pants Sparks
E5 What's Up (4 Non Blondes Mix Dance Mix) DJ Miko
E5 What's Up? 4 Non Blondes
E5 Big Mouth Necking
E5 Mother Danzig
E6 Song 2 Blur
E6 Your Woman White Town
E6 Rescue Me Madonna
E6 Sorted For E's & Wizz Pulp
E6 Pitseleh Elliott Smith
E6 F***k Tha Police N.W.A
E6 Cinematic Drone Alan Fillip
E7 Something In the Way Nirvana
E7 Free Florence + the Machine
E7 6 Underground (Nellee Hoopers Edit) Sneaker Pimps
E7 Lightning Crashes LIVE
E7 Dream Girl Evil Florence + the Machine
E8 Not While I'm Around Barbra Streisand
E8 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins
E8 Poor Sucker Low
E9 Zombie The Cranberries
E9 Sad but True St. Vincent
E9 Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music) Stephen Sondheim
E9 God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot Buffy Sainte-Marie
E9 The Killing Moon Nouvelle Vague
E9 Street Spirit (Fade Out) Radiohead
E9 The Killing Moon Echo & The Bunnymen
SHOW INFO
Supervisors Jen Malone , Whitney Pilzer
Network Showtime
External Links IMDb, TMDB