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Forget ‘Crystal Lake,’ the Best Action Thriller in TV History Remains Unbeaten 29 Years Later

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Forget ‘Crystal Lake,’ the Best Action Thriller in TV History Remains Unbeaten 29 Years Later

Pamela Voorhees' story has many revisiting the world of Friday the 13th

Crystal Lake has been dominating the streaming charts. Over the past week, the series became Peacock’s fourth most-watched scripted original. It inspired hundreds of online videos analyzing its twists and turns, and reminded the world of the everlasting magic of Linda Cardellini.

The series is a Friday the 13th prequel, centered on Pamela Voorhees, Jason’s murderous mom. Through its eight-episode run, the show explores Pamela’s character and asks why she began killing camp counselors in the first place — to mostly really fun results. By its latter half though, the series feels bogged down by its own lore, introducing one too many twists to explain Jason’s nature, and why he’s known as one of the most famous killing machines in slasher history. It’s a price that’s paid by its characters. And while Cardellini has many wonderful kills in the series, when it comes to the best action thrillers ever made, only one show comes to mind — and it also features a badass female lead.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered 29 years ago with a twist straight out of Friday the 13th’s playbook. The iconic slasher classic upended expectations by revealing to an ‘80s audience that the bloodthirsty killer was the sweet-looking mom. Then, in the late ‘90s, Buffy took the blonde girl who tends to die first and made her the thing monsters are afraid of.

Buffy might not have had the biggest budget (a moment of silence for a Buffy series with proper fighting choreography), but all of its action sequences were anchored on Buffy Summer’s main struggles.


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