“Crystal Lake” Draws 1.3 Billion Minutes, Ranks Fourth on Peacock

By Elena Vasquez

Peacock reported 1.3 billion viewing minutes for “Crystal Lake” in its first 11 days.

The “Friday the 13th” prequel ranked fourth among Peacock’s scripted original series of all time, according to the platform.

Dividing 1.3 billion minutes by the series’ 398-minute runtime yields 3.3 million estimated views.

Peacock’s three higher-ranked scripted originals were:

• “The Best Man: The Final Chapters” (2022)
• “All Her Fault” (2025)
• “The Five Star Weekend” Season 1 (2026)

For Peacock, the 11-day total put “Crystal Lake” behind three scripted originals while placing it ahead of every other scripted original in the service’s history.

Three Peacock titles still rank above “Crystal Lake.”

What did Nielsen and Sprout Social measure?

Nielsen ranked “Crystal Lake” third among streaming original series across all television for the week of Oct. 19.

The same ranking placed it third among first-season series streamed across television that week.

Nielsen measured streaming originals, while Sprout Social separately tracked more than 7.6 million video views over 11 days and 1.8 billion impressions in one day.

The distinction matters: Nielsen compared audience scale, while Sprout Social counted exposure and social video activity.

Nielsen placed the prequel third on television, and Sprout Social counted 1.8 billion impressions in one day.

Who created and directed “Crystal Lake”?

Official production credits name Brad Caleb Kane as creator and showrunner.

Nine executive producers share the series’ executive leadership:

• Brad Caleb Kane, Marc Toberoff, Victor Miller, Robert M. Barsamian, Robert P. Barsamian, Stuart Manashil, Tyson Bidner, Michael Lennox and Roy Lee.

The series names four directors:

• Michael Lennox, Celine Held, Logan George and Quyen Tran.

Production credits identify A24 as the studio.

Michael Lennox appears in both the executive producer and director lists.

The cast list includes:

• Linda Cardellini as Pam Voorhees and Callum Vinson as Jason.
• William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, Gwendolyn Sundstrom and Nick Cordileone.
• Joy Suprano, Danielle Kotch and Phoenix Parnevik.

The listed creative team combines one creator-showrunner, nine executive producers, four directors and A24’s studio credit across the same 398-minute runtime for the prequel series.

Kane created the series and runs it as showrunner; nine producers and four directors share the credits.

What story does “Crystal Lake” tell?

Peacock’s official logline reads:

“single mother Pam Voorhees (Linda Cardellini) who has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason (Callum Vinson) tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before.

When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: Just who is Pam Voorhees?”

The logline links the two strangers’ arrival to disturbing events, keeping Pam Voorhees at the center of the town’s unresolved question about her own identity.

Pam’s grief over Jason’s drowning precedes the strangers’ arrival at her door.

The mystery centers on Pam Voorhees and what two strangers uncover at her door.

The next measurement will show whether viewing and social attention hold after the first 11 days.