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Creating a brand new take on a classic character who has literal decades of history to their name is no simple task. No one knows this challenge better than folks who’ve made writing comic books their career, as so many characters have histories and continuity that are so long and complex they practically make new…

Months before playing a young Jason Voorhees in “Crystal Lake,” Callum Vinson entered the world of spies and government conspiracies in Netflix’s “The Night Agent.” In Season 3 of the Gabriel Basso-led thriller, Vinson appears as the Son — the extremely perceptive adopted child of the Father (Stephen Moyer). Living under the alias Henry, the…

Before Jason Voorhees became a masked killer, his mother, Pam Voorhees, also had blood on her hands. The prequel series “Crystal Lake” focuses on the matriarch’s backstory, as she kills several townsfolk in the wake of her son’s drowning incident at Camp Crystal. Although the Peacock original builds on the “Friday the 13th” legacy, it shows…

Peacock’s Crystal Lakeconjures up a bloody backstory for Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini), mother to horror icon Jason Voorhees and the killer behind the carnage of Friday the 13th.

Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for Thomson Reuters, for which he later traveled around India and the Middle East as an educator specializing in American English style and grammar…