What’s On TV And Radio Tonight: Thursday, December 2 – The Times

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Viewing guide, by Joe Clay

Yellowjackets


Sky Atlantic/Now, 9pm


Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the creators of Narcos, are behind this enjoyably schlocky survival drama. The action switches between a traumatic event from 1996, where a girls’ high-school soccer team spent months trapped in the wilderness after surviving an aircraft crash, and the aftermath 25 years later. In the present day, the survivors are trying to repress their traumatic experience, but the tragedy still grips the nation and a journalist is sniffing around. She visits Shauna (played in the present by Melanie Lynskey) offering her the chance to tell her story. “The truth is the plane crashed, a bunch of my friends died and the