Friday the 13th: The Series Ep. 65 Midnight Riders Review

Midnight Riders originally aired on January 29, 1990. This was a fantastic episode. this is also the only episode to not include a single magical object. There have been episodes without cursed antiques before, but not without a magical object. This episode reminded me of a movie plot. I could totally see them making this into a stand alone piece. The basic story is that this town wrongly accused a biker gang of raping a girl. She lied to protect her boyfriend who was going to Bible college. He has a son later on. His son and his daughter are dating together, but they don't know that they're siblings. It's incredibly bizarre. When the planets align, the past can return according to the episode. The biker gang returns and kills all the ones responsible for wrongly killing them. Jack's father appears in this episode in his only appearance in the series. Jack's father was a sailor who drifted from boat to boat. He had died at sea a decade earlier but returned to try to make things right in that town. He had been the one who had beheaded the leader. I didn't like the way that the priest or reverend they said was presented. He, even when cornered to death, does not fess up to his sins and tries to save himself. It actually made me quite angry because the reverend was presented as entirely hypocritical. Overall though, the episode's really quite intricate and against type for this show. I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and I highly recommend it!