TV tonight: Linda Cardellini stars in a Friday the 13th prequel from A24

Prepare for blood and guts galore in Crystal Lake.

Plus: David Harewood’s great legal drama, Pierre.

Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, Sky Atlantic A Friday the 13th prequel series produced by A24? Halloween has come early for gorefest fans.

Linda Cardellini plays small-town single mother Pam Voorhees, who takes her son Jason (Callum Vinson) to summer camp where she works as a cook.

But one day Jason drowns in the lake.

Fast forward a year, and Pam is grieving but clings to a shred of hope as her son’s body still hasn’t been found.

When two cops knock on her door to tell her they have discovered Jason’s remains, things take a huge turn – and it turns out there’s more to her and Jason’s story than meets the eye … It has all the jump-scare beats of a classic 70s slasher movie and Cardellini gets stuck in – blood, guts and all.

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