Daytime Pick
Yellowjackets
Noon/11am c, Showtime
You’ll want to binge the first season of this thriller about a 1996 girls’ high school soccer team (played by Samantha Hanratty, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Nélisse, Ella Purnell and Sophie Thatcher, above) whose chartered plane crashlands in the wilderness. The Yellowjackets’ addictive story alternates between their tragic 19 months of survival and the present day, when extreme events of that period haunt them. Not everyone in the ’90s came home, and those who did, now adults, are tight-lipped about why. (Cannibalism is heavily implied.) When four of the women—stay-at-home mom Shauna (played as an adult by Melanie Lynskey), rebel Natalie (Juliette Lewis), political candidate Taissa (Tawny Cypress) and nurse Misty (Christina Ricci)—receive an anonymous blackmail threat, they turn back to their wilder ways…