Can Crystal Lake Make You Sympathize With Pamela Voorhees Without Excusing Her Murders?

‘Crystal Lake’: Before Jason Voorhees Was a Slasher, He Was a Cutie Pie

Before Jason Voorhees became the iconic, brutal slasher who would spend decades slaughtering people on screen, he was apparently a […]

Can Crystal Lake Make You Sympathize With Pamela Voorhees Without Excusing Her Murders?

Peacock’s Crystal Lake gives Pamela Voorhees time to be a mother before grief drives her toward murder. Linda Cardellini plays the future killer as a camp lunch lady raising a young Jason, with the…

After ‘Crystal Lake’, We’re All Team Voorhees Now

For decades, Pamela Voorhees was a plot twist and Jason was a hockey mask. Peacock’s new prequel series wants you to feel something else about them: heartbreak. The eight-episode season stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees. The show shifts the timeline and gives us a glimpse of a sweet relationship between Pamela and a cute-as-a-button […]

How 'Crystal Lake' Rewrites the Story of Jason Voorhees

All eight episodes of the Peacock and A24 prequel series premiered on October 15, filling the gap between Jason’s drowning and Pamela Voorhees’ eventual massacre at Camp Crystal Lake. The story takes place a year after her son Jason drowned, with Linda Cardellini playing Pamela. The question many viewers bring to Jason Voorhees in ‘Crystal...