More than 45 years after the first Friday the 13th, Brad Caleb Kane is righting a wrong from the set of the 1980 slasher.
Ahead of Friday’s premiere on Peacock, the Crystal Lake creator noted that a snake Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini) sets free after finding it in the camp pantry in the first episode is “a direct nod” to a trained serpent that was actually killed while filming the original movie.
“But [Pam’s] a different person in the first episode than the kids are [in the movie],” he explained. “Yes, it’s a direct nod, but then it
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