Overview
- Peacock announced the date Monday at NBCUniversal’s upfront, setting Crystal Lake to debut Oct. 15 on the streamer.
- Linda Cardellini stars as Pamela Voorhees, with Callum Vinson as young Jason, in a prequel that explores Pamela’s life before the first film.
- Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane describes the series as a paranoid 1970s-style psychological thriller that carries slasher DNA.
- The eight-episode series lists directors Michael Lennox, Celine Held and Logan George, and Quyen Tran, and it wrapped filming in New Jersey in October 2025.
- The show marks the first major Friday the 13th screen project since 2009, following years of rights disputes that steered this revival toward a Pamela-and-Jason origin story.