Friday the 13th: The Series launches right in with crazy Louis scurrying around the antique shop trying to get some work done. A very unpleasant couple and their cute but bratty little daughter come in from the rain amid protests of "We're Closed!" from Louis... but he relents. When the little girl takes a liking to a talking doll Louis snatches it out of her hand and shoos the family away.  Not before the little girl takes the doll outside and it slashes the throat of some dude working on his car, but still... it seems Louis has had enough of his pact and decides that enough is enough. Satan promptly appears and throws him down an elevator shaft into the pits of hell.

We then meet Micki and Ryan - not much detail but I guess they figure that we have a whole series to get to know them. Then Jack comes around and the trio is complete. It is miraculous how quickly they determine that Louis had a pact with the devil, that the items are cursed and that they need to retrieve them all. But, they only had an hour after all...

The little girl's Dad came back and begged for the doll for the spoiled rotten daughter, and got it.  Now the trio has to get it back before the "little princess" kills the whold damn neighborhood.

Thoughts:

This series was lower budget than I remember... the effects in the beginning with the devil scene are really stupid. The point gets across though and it works for me just fine... my excitement is rising as I anticipate future episodes.  The kill scenes are pretty good with things moving on their own and that scary talking doll... a phobia of mine. So far so good as the series kicks off.

I think I forgot how friggin HUGE Micki aka "Robey" single-name wants to be a singer in Canada - how big her hair was!! I'm talking larger than her shoulders. And does she have a British accent or doesn't she?  She can't seem to decide. I also forgot about her fiance, which she pronounces like "Fi - Yawn - Si" who treats her like crap, is in the very first scene and then yells at her on the phone as she's deciding to stay out of town and work on the evil antiques. Strange... guess they wanted us to know that she had a life, albeit a crummy one, before the store.  Well, she looked rich I guess, but still treated like crap, her and her big hair.

Ryan is cool and kid-like exactly how I remember. Overall it's working great.

The meeting with Jack was preposterous... he snuck into the shop wearing a dark cloak, poked around the books, threatened them both with some kind of stick when they caught him, but when he said "I knew Louis and he owes me money... and btw I am a witch man with crystal balls and tarot cards" Micki and Ryan were like "Oh, okay... here's the keys. Here's the safe. Let's go hunting artifacts!"  The whole thing was a bit abrupt.

So, that is all for episode one.  A good start to the series that pretty much set the entire tone of a complicated story in one hour, and still managed to get the doll back. Isn't TV amazing?

Until next time, bloody hatchets to you all.