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The Lowdown
Building a Friday the 13th series around Pamela instead of Jason is the smartest call the franchise has made in years. It turns a slasher into a grief story with a known, terrible ending. Dropping all eight episodes the week before Halloween is a confident play for binge viewers.
Key Takeaways
- All eight episodes of Crystal Lake premiered on Peacock on October 15 (NBCUniversal).
- The prequel stars Linda Cardellini as Pam Voorhees, still grieving her son Jason’s drowning nearly a year earlier (NBCUniversal).
- Brad Caleb Kane created and wrote the series, and A24 produced it (NBCUniversal).
- Original Friday the 13th writer Victor Miller is among the executive producers (NBCUniversal).
The Story
Peacock released all eight episodes of Crystal Lake on October 15. The series is a prequel to the Friday the 13th franchise, from A24 and creator Brad Caleb Kane (NBCUniversal).
Linda Cardellini plays single mother Pam Voorhees, who has been unable to move on since her young, sickly son Jason drowned in the town lake almost a year earlier. When two strangers arrive asking about her past, a disturbing chain of events begins, according to Peacock’s description (NBCUniversal).
William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins and Gwendolyn Sundstrom also star. Michael Lennox directed the first three episodes, Celine Held and Logan George directed episodes four through six, and Quyen Tran directed the last two (NBCUniversal).
Victor Miller, who wrote the original 1980 film, is among the executive producers along with Kane, Marc Toberoff and Roy Lee (NBCUniversal).
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