Brad Caleb Kane is ready to take on the haters. That's a good thing, because his new show, Crystal Lake, is almost guaranteed to be met with criticism from riled-up Friday the 13th fans angry over the changes Kane is making to Jason Voorhees canon in his attempt to give slasher icon Jason and his murderous mother Pamela (Linda Cardellini) a fleshed-out backstory.

For one thing, Crystal Lake reshuffles the original timeline, moving Jason's death up from 1957 to 1971, and then compresses the amount of time between that event and the summer camp slaughter that follows.

"I think the mythology is a little wonky as it is in terms of the timeline," Kane says, somewhat defensively, when I bring up these timeline shifts.

In general, Kane isn't too worried about how Crystal Lake tweaks or outright changes the existing Friday the 13th canon. He calls out our modern obsession with lore as completely missing the point of these movies, which conveniently gives him a lot more freedom to tell whatever story he wants. Still, maybe Kane has a point.

"I bemoan a little bit like this thing that we've gotten into," he says. "I grew up watching these movies in theaters and what they were about was sensation. They're about a collective experience, a cathartic experience, with an audience full of people. It's about taking a ride.

"But somewhere over the last 20 years, watching these slasher movies that had multiple sequels became about collecting and hoarding information.

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