John D. LemayFriday the 13th: The Series - The Complete Series (Includes: Friday the 13th - The Series: The Final Season (aka The Third Season), Friday The 13th - The Series: The First Season, Friday the 13th - The Series: The Second Season)

I never seen this on TV before and one day accidentally seen the last episode and the first episode back to back on TV. I was instantly hooked to the show and decided to get the full series from Amazon.I'm hard of hearing and this show having closed caption is a huge plus for me. The episodes do not seem to be enhanced in anyway and I do agree that many episodes appear dark and hard to see. Otherwise as a 1980s show, the show is phenomenal. Each episode, you can see that they really put a lot of effort into making it near movie quality in terms of scenery, location, and just overall acting is very well.The show is about Micki and Ryan inheriting a store of their late uncle. Jack, a friend of the late uncle, came to the store to explain to Micki and Ryan that they have to retrieve the items sold because each item is possessed by the devil granting each buyer special powers usually in exchange for death.I do feel that the basis of the show is fundamentally flawed. Each item is cursed so they have to store it in this special cell because they can't actually destroy the items. However, what happen after their own deaths? Also, the show gets somewhat recycled and I can see at the start of the show, they went through the typical vices that covers love, youth, health, wealth, fame, and all the typical things you think someone might murder in exchange for a deal with the devil himself. As the show went on, I can notice a somewhat shift in the typical vices that people get into and instead it goes into the realm of complex unbelievable story that I can see would end the series.I also feel that each episode is somewhat silly. The crew goes into investigation, but everyone is willingly giving them information including the police who seem to give them info all willy nilly. Also, with so many murders and other strange things happening, wouldn't the police and others be pressured to solve all these seemingly unsolved crimes? I estimate that in season 1 alone there were about 100+ murders, with many of them where the artifacts were stolen so it doubles the number of murders. Also, sometimes when one person is killed, the crew is okay with it so long as the main star of the show is okay. For example, one episode Cupid, the guy uses the cupid doll to murder this random bar goer, but the crew were sighing that it wasn't this other woman, who is a college student. Very odd that they care about one person but not others.Overall I really like the show. I felt they did a wonderful job with each episode and the quality. I do think the name Friday the 13th has nothing to do with the show. I'm not sure why they called it that and given it was the late 80s when this show came out, I imagine a lot of folks mistakenly thought this show was about a movie series of the same name. As a matter of fact, I even thought the same thing when I first saw it on TV.Edit: At the time of the review, I watched about halfway through season 2. I'm now completely done with the show minus a few episodes. I wanted to come back to this and talk about this one episode Crippled Inside. It's probably the best episode of the entire series and probably the only episode where it shows a true deal with the devil. The other episodes I felt you never really connected with the characters, but Crippled Inside is the first episode where I felt for the character. It's probably the only episode of the entire series to show what an actual deal with the devil might be like. You're given exactly what you desire most in life, and you think it's going to make you happy but by the time you realize it's not, it'll be too late and you'll be too far gone. I really liked this episode and it made me think about the episode for a long time. It's one of the rare shows on TV where it actually made me think and not with a conclusion but rather just with an understanding that not everyone gets it fair and even though it is tempting to cut a deal with the devil himself to get it, it's just not worth it no matter what. If anything, I think you should get this series just for this episode.

Love this set.

I forgot all about this series. Thanks to the TV channel 'Comet' I was reintroduced to this series. Very good price, and had great video quality, the DVDs were all intact—many hours of binge-watching with my favorite takeout (tacos!).

Watching the series now. Halfway through and very happy with Disks so far. Will update if needed but don't anticipate my joy in the series quality will change

Nice to watch in the fall as Halloween approaches. Recommend the Scare Crow Episode and the two parter Quilt of Hawthorne.

Love this series

Enjoy the tv show

I am a fan of the movies and I love this series. The price is good, too.