Crystal Lake was supposed to make sense of Friday the 13th’s incredibly complicated lore. What began as the quintessential summer-camp slasher has morphed over the decades into a story about immortal zombies, cryogenics, and space travel. Peacock’s new streaming series was supposed to simply set up the twist of the very first movie — that Pamela Voorhees is the murderer — and establish how her deformed son Jason could have survived his initial drowning.
That mystery is solved by the end of the eight episodes, but in an incredibly convoluted way that turns this horror prequel into a full-on sci-fi thriller. Here’s how it shakes out, if you’re too squeamish to sit through all the gore.
