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Friday the 13th fans (hi) are anxiously awaiting Peacock\u2019s Crystal Lake prequel series that\u2019s set to arrive this October. Not just because we can never get enough of Jason Voorhees and that lake with a death curse, but because the series is finally going to delve deeper into the horror icon\u2019s mother, Pamela Voorhees (played by Linda Cardellini). <\/p>\n
Listen, Pamela may kill a whole lot of innocent people in that first film, released in 1980, but I always found her to be a sympathetic character. A mother who lost her only son to drowning because the camp counselors weren\u2019t watching him? Who wouldn\u2019t be pissed off? Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned, etc. Despite her importance to the franchise, though, the films have never really delved too deeply into who she is, what drives her, or where she comes from. She\u2019s a complex killer, one whose story is begging to be told. <\/p>\n
And that\u2019s exactly what Crystal Lake is setting out to do.<\/p>\n
Linda Cardellini recently sat down with Deadline<\/a> to express just that, offering hints about what we can expect from the show\u2019s depiction of Pamela. <\/p>\n Said Cardellini, \u201cShe\u2019s important to the series, but sort of unexplored. So I thought that would be really, really fun, to do something I\u2019d never done.\u201d <\/p>\n And when it comes to showrunner Brad Caleb Kane, Cardellini adds he \u201chas made sort of this mixtape of all the things that he would love to see happen for her. It goes all over the place for her character, and it\u2019s really fun.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Okay, so we still don\u2019t know too much. What\u2019s obvious from Cardellini\u2019s statement, though, is that fans are in for a wild ride with Crystal Lake. I fully expect something on the deranged level of Bates Motel, with the show carving into Pamela and Jason\u2019s relationship. Either way, I\u2019m excited to see a character who has always been a major piece of the franchise finally get her due. <\/p>\n Based on the slasher series begun by Sean S. Cunningham in 1980,\u00a0Crystal Lake\u00a0follows a doomed small town where camp counselors come to die. It tells the origins of the Voorhees family and leads up to the \u201cbirth\u201d of the ultimate slasher: Jason.<\/p>\n Aside from Cardellini as Pamela, the series includes earlier versions of other characters from the original film, such as Crazy Ralph (Nick Cordileone), Claudette (Danielle Kotch), and Barry (Phoenix Parnevik), along with new characters connected to the town\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Take a swim in Crystal Lake when the series slashes into Peacock this coming\u00a0October 15, 2026.<\/p>\n![\"'Crystal](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Crystal-Lake.jpg\")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: Crystal Lake<\/a> Friday the 13th<\/a> Linda Cardellini<\/a> <\/p>\n