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Season guide

Friday the 13th: The Series: Season 2

26 episodes Premiered Sep 30, 1988
Previously on Friday the 13th: The Series

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Friday the 13th: The Series Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (6): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (20): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Doorway to Hell

Sep 30, 1988

Lewis Vendredi was defeated in the previous episode Bottle of Dreams, but he has another plan. Vendredi is using a mirror that he prepared before his death, hidden away in an old h

S2·E2 Core

The Voodoo Mambo

Oct 7, 1988

During a local voodoo celebration, Jack meets an old friend, Hedley, who is a voodoo houngan, and the ""Keeper of Fire"". Hedley's granddaughter Stacey is to be initiated as a prie

S2·E3 Core

And Now the News

Oct 14, 1988

In an insane asylum, a doctor is using a cursed antique radio to enact miraculous cures on his patients. The cost, as usual, is that the radio then kills another doctor's patients,

S2·E4 Core

Tails I Live, Heads You Die

Oct 21, 1988

A Satanic cult leader gets ahold of the cursed Coin of Ziocles, and needs it to resurrect three powerful witches. Flip the coin and it comes up heads...killing the victim and allow

S2·E5 Mytharc

Symphony in B#

Nov 4, 1988

Jack is a fan of deceased violinist, Janos Korda. Ryan's new girlfriend Leslie, a violinist, is Korda's widow. Each year a new album of Korda's ""lost"" music is mysteriously relea

S2·E6 Core

Master of Disguise

Nov 11, 1988

The trio become involved in a movie production when they loan some (non-cursed) antiques out to a set. Handsome actor William Pratt is the star, and Micki and he soon fall in love.

S2·E7 Core

Wax Magic

Nov 18, 1988

An eccentric wax sculptor and his wife tour with a carnival. Not so coincidentally, a series of ax murders follow the carnival and the ""Hall of Horrors"" wax museum the sculptor r

S2·E8 Core

Read My Lips

Nov 25, 1988

Micki's college roommate wants her to be bridesmaid at her wedding. However, the woman's fiancee, a ventriloquist, appears to be going insane. He spends most his time talking to hi

S2·E9 Core

13 O'Clock

Jan 7, 1989

A woman and her boyfriend get hold of a cursed pocketwatch that lets the owner stop time for one hour (13 o'clock) if they kill a victim at a particular train station. Two street o

S2·E10 Mytharc

Night Hunger

Jan 14, 1989

A young hot rodder is given a gift by Lewis Vendredi: a silver key chain that lets him win car races. However, he has to kill those he races against to get the curse to work. His u

S2·E11 Core

The Sweetest Sting

Jan 21, 1989

A demented bee keeper, McCabe, uses a cursed antique beehive in a complicated scheme. First he turns loose the bees in the beehive, which kill someone and make a blood-honey. Then

S2·E12 Core

The Playhouse

Jan 28, 1989

Two children trapped in an abusive home stumble upon a cursed playhouse. The playhouse lets them enter a fantastical world of clown and parties in return for them luring in a child

S2·E13 Core

Eye of Death

Feb 4, 1989

An antiques collector, Atticus Rook, makes a fortune selling new antiques from the Civil War era. It turns out that they are "as-new": by fueling a cursed "magic lantern" with the

S2·E14 Core

Face of Evil

Feb 11, 1989

The compact lost in last season's ""Vanity's Mirror"" is found by the dead girl's sister, who is now working as a make-up artist. Inadvertently, the aging starlet she works for get

S2·E15 Core

Better Off Dead

Feb 18, 1989

A doctor is trying to develop a cure for a childhood syndrome lending towards hyperviolence. Due to his mistake, his daughter was inadvertently infected with the disease from a con

S2·E16 Core

Scarlet Cinema

Feb 25, 1989

An outcast college film student is obsessed with werewolves. Mercilessly teased by frat boys and rejected by the girls, he stumbles upon a cursed movie camera. When he films someon

S2·E17 Core

The Mephisto Ring

Apr 15, 1989

A World Series ring for the infamous Black Sox game allows its owner to predict winning games to gamble on...if the owner puts the ring on a sacrificial victim and condemns them to

S2·E18 Core

A Friend to the End

Apr 22, 1989

This is essentially two half-episodes. In the first, Micki and Ryan are trying to recover a cursed piece of rock, the Shard of Medusa, from a sculptress. Using it, she can kill a v

S2·E19 Core

The Butcher

Apr 29, 1989

While Micki and Ryan are on vacation, Jack has nightmares of his World War II experience when he was captured by the Nazis and nearly killed by Rausch, a commandant known as The Bu

S2·E20 Core

Mesmer's Bauble

May 6, 1989

A homely record-store clerk is obsessed with pop diva Angelica, and happens to stumble upon a jewelry robbery where the thieves drop one of the items: a cursed pendant that first b

S2·E21 Core

Wedding In Black

May 13, 1989

A mysterious snowglobe is mailed to Curious Goods. When Micki gives it a shake, an old boyfriend of hers shows up, and convinces her to join him at a bed & breakfast. Then Jack and

S2·E22 Core

Wedding Bell Blues

May 20, 1989

While Ryan and Jack try to recover a pair of cursed snowshoes, Micki hears from one of Ryan's street contacts, a punk named Johnny. He's managed to track down a pool cue that bears

S2·E23 Mytharc

The Maestro

May 27, 1989

A famous dancer, Anton Pascola, is crippled in an accident before completing his masterpiece, ""Shiva."" He obtains a cursed symphonia (music box). Using it, he can have students d

S2·E24 Core

The Shaman's Apprentice

Jun 3, 1989

The son of an Indian shaman, who has embraced the white man's medicine and become a doctor, is frustrated by the patients he loses. He stumbles across a cursed Indian rattle hidden

S2·E25 Mytharc

The Prisoner

Jun 10, 1989

A crook names Railsback gets hold of a World War II kamikazi jacket. When smeared with the blood of a murderered victim, it lets the wearer become invisible. Railsback is in prison

S2·E26 Mytharc

Coven of Darkness

Jun 17, 1989

The trio attempt to recover a ""witches' ladder"", a beaded necklace that can greatly enhance a witch's power. It is in the safekeeping of a coven of white witches. Unbeknownst to

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