Full spoilers follow for Crystal Lake Season 1, which is available on Peacock now.

After 17 years since the last entry in the franchise, filled with movies that failed to get off the ground followed by a protracted legal battle over the rights that prevented any new projects from moving forward, the Friday the 13th series has finally risen from a watery grave with Crystal Lake, the new eight-episode Peacock series.

Set in the early 1970s, the series goes back to the roots of the franchise by focusing on Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini, taking on the role made famous by Betsy Palmer), the killer in the original Friday the 13th. Here, we follow the supposed drowning death of her son, Jason (Callum Vinson), and how she reacts to it in the aftermath, charting her descent into madness and murder that we saw in that 1980 movie – before she got her head cut off and her son took over the series in the second film.

By the end of the season, some major revelations have been made that reveal important aspects of the Voorhees family history that have never been delved into before across the 12 Friday the 13th movies, some which are no doubt already proving to be quite polarizing among fans. That includes a key aspect of Jason Voorhees’ history that answers a lot of questions! Let’s dive into what we learned, how it fits into the movie series, and where it diverges from it.

Crystal Lake has a big surprise actor and character pop up in its sixth episode, when we meet Elias Wittering, played by Midnight Mass/Gen V/Widow’s Bay veteran Hamish Linklater.

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