Crystal Lake
Created by Brad Caleb Kane
Single mother Pam Voorhees has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. When two strangers arrive at Pam's door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees? From TMDB
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 79% of 47 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Linda Cardellini plays the perfect mom who can do no wrong in this slasher prequel that lives up to the best and worst of its franchise's ilk, but since mother knows best, Crystal Lake is a campy, gory, good time." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 60 out of 100 based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
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60 of 247 · most liked firstFirst look at young Jason Voorhees in the ‘Friday the 13th’ prequel series ‘CRYSTAL LAKE’.
neutral · AI labelView post →CRYSTAL LAKE will be a 6.5 hour Friday the 13th experience, making the series about as long as 4-5 new movie installments in the franchise. All eight episode titles pay tribute to the titles of classic Friday the 13th movies: bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3971883/c...
neutral · AI labelView post →Heard the kid on CRYSTAL LAKE has good taste in reading. Haven’t seen the show yet, I hope nothing bad happens to him
neutral · AI labelView post →At the #CrystalLake panel at #NYCC I’m here for my niece Gwen, but I’m also a fan of the series. The creator is a hardcore fan himself. This is really pretty neat.
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching my niece in CRYSTAL LAKE! Very surreal. Whipsawing between "Yay, go Gwen! How fun!" and "Whoa oh dear that's a big old knife in that dude's face."
positive · AI labelView post →I hated Crystal Lake, and the only way I could talk about why was by spoiling the whole thing. If you’ve finished the series (or you simply don’t care), read my review for Vulture.
negative · AI labelView post →Genuinely stunned by the positive reviews for Crystal Lake. It’s the worst show I’ve watched all year, and this is coming from someone who recapped The Shards.
negative · AI labelView post →Crystal Lake is a perfectly logical name for a Friday the 13th prequel television series, but it would have been so funny if the show was called Thursday the 12th.
neutral · AI labelView post →A first look at young Jason in Crystal Lake Backwards, a prequel series exploring what Friday the 13th would have looked like the other way around
neutral · AI labelView post →With Crystal Lake hitting this weekend, Men’s Health had me write up a viewing guide to the Friday the 13th film series. (Spoilers, the first 3 suck) www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →Its time to start Crystal Lake (2026)! Episode 1, let's gooo!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →I get if people think the direction Crystal Lake seems to be going is stupid, but personally I think it needs stupid shit for it to be true to the series. If I sat through a FRIDAY THE 13TH prequel series and it was sane and tasteful the whole time I would be pissed.
positive · AI labelView post →Crystal Lake ⁞season 1 www.imdb.com/title/tt23148340 #NowWatching #tvsky ·well i'm... i'm Mrs.Voorhees, an old friend of the Christys·
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the first three episodes of crystal lake and ahhh! I'm really loving it. I'm a huge horror lover, I was a bit disappointed with the Carrie show (huge fan of the book and og movie) but Crystal Lake?! Loving it so far! c:
positive · AI labelView post →FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) returns to AMC theaters nationwide tonight. One show only! Tickets around $10. Peacock's prequel series CRYSTAL LAKE starring Linda Cardellini starts Oct 15, so this is a nice opportunity to pre-game and pay tribute to the original Mrs. Voorhees Betsy Palmer. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm no great fan of ye old misogynist 80s slasher movies, but was impressed by Crystal Lake, NBCPeacock's revival of the Friday the 13th movies. Linda Cardellini is awesome as Mrs Voorhees in this bloody show. 4 out of 5. Out Oct 15th in the USA, Oct 19th in the UK film-authority.com/2026/10/14/c...
positive · AI labelView post →Peacock's "Crystal Lake" isn't consistently good, but I was amused by a lot of what it was doing.
neutral · AI labelView post →“I knew [Tim] could translate Pam Voorhees’ chaotic thoughts and complex psychology in new, intriguing ways, ones that might be more clarifying and revealing than we could ever communicate on screen. And boy, has he ever.” – Brad Caleb Kane, series creator, Crystal Lake Out Oct. 15th.
neutral · AI labelView post →My really bad idea for a show based on a classic horror franchise - ala Crystal Lake - that everyone would hate and get mad at me for is an alternate take on 'Halloween' where Micheal Meyers gets away with killing his sister, grows up normal, and gets into local politics.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wooooah The Crystal Lake series is soooo freaking entertaining 🤩 they did amazing job
positive · AI labelView post →Guess we can talk about it now. I’m only about half way through so don’t have a full review yet, but #CrystalLake is mostly fine so far. It captures the 70s slasher camp-vibes well, but also to its detriment. Linda Cardellini rules, as expected.
neutral · AI labelView post →The first show I was watching w friends went down so now we’re watching Crystal Lake (:
neutral · AI labelView post →I had this idea once to do the "novelization" of the most ephemeral 80s slasher movie I could find and make it about each character's existential meditation on living as if death isn't coming. Nevertheless, I'm pretty lukewarm on the A24 Crystal Lake show.
neutral · AI labelView post →HBO Max Picks Up ‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel Series ‘Crystal Lake’ Across Europe.
neutral · AI labelView post →Two other shows the October season is delivering and worth checking out besides ‘Carrie’ and ‘Crystal Lake’: Netflix’s eco-horror series ‘Below’ and ‘Yaga’ on AMC+, a supernatural witchy procedural (10/23).
neutral · AI labelView post →Release Roundup, October 2026. | Name | Series | Date of Release | Platform | Genre | Country of Origin | | ------------------------------------------------ | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------- | ----------------- | | East of Eden | Limited Series | 1/10/2026 | Netflix | Drama, Period…
neutral · AI labelView post →I tried to review the new series Crystal Lake. It’s the origin story of Friday the 13th’s Jason Vorhees but I couldn’t stop laughing
negative · AI labelView post →A24's Crystal Lake show premiers TODAY on Peacock! What will be keeping you company for the big night? 😈 Check out our Jason Voorhees inspired toy: www.monster-cocks.com And show some love to our final girl badies @fatalgoth.com and @toxsuki.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →The episode titles for ‘CRYSTAL LAKE’, the ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ prequel series, have been revealed. #CrystalLake #FridayThe13th
neutral · AI labelView post →Really can’t think of a show this year I found more disappointing than Crystal Lake. www.rogerebert.com/features/jas...
negative · AI labelView post →Also kind of curious to check out the Crystal Lake show but the timing of it seems to be that it won't all be out by Halloween? And I am also assuming the episodes will be "prestige streaming" length. Because lord knows we need 10 hours to tell *that* story
neutral · AI labelView post →Likewise if you will be watching the new Crystal Lake series (The prequel to Friday the 13th) you may also enjoy You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight
neutral · AI labelView post →ALSO Crystal Lake series came out TODAY EEEEE 🔪✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok just watched 3 episodes of Crystal Lake. This show whips so much ass omfg
positive · AI labelView post →I haven't binged watched a show in Years but I HAD to Marathon All of Crystal Lake in one sitting today cause Friday the 13th has been my fav horror franchise forever. Honestly have to do a full video to articulate all my thoughts but overall I liked it and I'm SOOOOOO Grateful they got this right
positive · AI labelView post →Just started Crystal Lake, but if Peacock came to me and asked me to make a Friday the 13th TV show, I would have just burned every idea I could come up with and made eight Friday the 13th movies
negative · AI labelView post →I would *not* have expected to be a positive outlier on "Crystal Lake" and I definitely don't think I "got" the show on a higher or deeper level. But I *did* find it amusing a lot of the time. I would not want to attempt to test the hypothesis by re-watching.
neutral · AI labelView post →Crystal Lake is absolutely pointless, even by Friday the 13th standards. Especially embarrassing to release this show in the same year as Camp Miasma, which actually understands what makes a summer-camp slasher tick.
negative · AI labelView post →Tell you what, I'll watch that Crystal Lake TV show, but only if they work JASON GOES TO HELL and JASON X into the mythology as canon.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I'm going to like this show. #TVSky #CrystalLake www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs49...
positive · AI labelView post →Crystal Lake (2026, dir Brad Kane). A prequel series set in the Friday the 13th universe centered on Pamela Voorhees. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/213562-crystal-lake From Brad Kane, executive producer of IT: Welcome to Derry, Lodge 49, Black Sails, Fringe, and the singing-voice for Aladdin in Disney's Aladdin (1992).
neutral · AI labelView post →This photo of Jason playing with his Mom's Machete pissed everyone off yesterday, but the scene in the actual Crystal Lake show was adorable imo. Kid Jason is adorable af. Great casting.
positive · AI labelView post →@calvindyson.bsky.social I saw this with regards to the recent "Crystal Lake" TV series and thought you'd find one particular part of this quote amusing... 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →something at the end of Crystal Lake episode 5 has me very confused, timeline-wise. not gonna spoil it here but I may DM someone who has finished the series.
neutral · AI labelView post →Crystal Lake, the series, isn’t too bad. It’s Jason’s origin story. I do enjoy that it’s filmed/written in the style of the 70’s/80’s slasher films. Brings back memories of those times. So much sex in summer camps. 🤣😁 #CrystalLake #Peacock
positive · AI labelView post →The opening credits for ‘CRYSTAL LAKE’, the ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ prequel series, have been unveiled. #CrystalLake #FridayThe13th
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching Crystal Lake! Ten minutes in and it's pretty good! Jason is so sweet 😭
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve decided on my 500th watch: boxd.it/1yP4 — I want to start prepping for the upcoming Friday the 13th series CRYSTAL LAKE with some slashers that I haven’t seen yet. So it’s a win-win in my book. #Filmsky #Horrorsky #Moviesky Thoughts on this one?!
neutral · AI labelView post →Spoiler Free Review: Crystal Lake Season 1 Is The Ultimate Friday The 13th Nostalgia Trip And Perfect New Beginning For The Franchise www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2026/10/revi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Big Crystal Lake TV show promo including a walkthrough for horror fanatics #NYCC
neutral · AI labelView post →First clip from ‘CRYSTAL LAKE’, the ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ prequel series. Premieres October 15 on Peacock. #CrystalLake #FridayThe13th
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished Crystal Lake. As a mega Friday the 13th fan, I can say that show is far better than Friday the 13th deserves. It's one of the best things, if not the best thing they've done with that property. #CrystalLake #Fridaythe13th #JasonVoorhees
positive · AI labelView post →Me eating Crystal Lake: “this show is so over the top and corny as hell!” *remembers this this is a prequel series to Friday the 13th* “Oh yeah, that makes so much more sense”
neutral · AI labelView post →Crystal Lake TV Series spoilers:
neutral · AI labelView post →Just once I hope Crazy Ralph says, "it's got a death curse" in the Crystal Lake show. #CrystalLake #Fridaythe13th #JasonVoorhees
neutral · AI labelView post →We're back! Insanely fun episode with Brad Kane, show runner of the shockingly great new series CRYSTAL LAKE.
positive · AI labelView post →The “Crystal Lake” Series Reviews Are In www.darkhorizons.com/the-crystal-...
neutral · AI labelView post →The new Carrie series on Amazon Prime is so good. I've watched the first 3 episodes and they're great. Your move, Crystal Lake show! I'm a Jason Voorhees guy so don't let me down. #horror #tv
neutral · AI labelView post →New teaser for ‘CRYSTAL LAKE’, the ‘FRIDAY THE 13TH’ prequel series. Premieres October 15 on Peacock. #CrystalLake #FridayThe13th
neutral · AI labelView post →Crystal Lake horror prequel series set in the Friday the 13th universe, following Pamela Voorhees a year after her son Jason's drowning, as two strangers arrive to uncover her past and trigger a dark mystery in the town of Crystal Lake 🎬💿📺🎥 #CrystalLake #Filmsky #Moviesky #Series #Horror #Thriller
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