Friday the 13th: The Series Ep. 14 Bedazzled Review

Bedazzled originally aired on February 22, 1988. This is the second clunker episode for the season as well as the series. It's just really really dull until the final 5 minutes of the episode. The cursed antique is a lantern that helps one to find buried treasure, but the lantern in turn must be opened and burn someone (usually the diver who retrieved the buried treasure) for it to happen again. The lantern gets captured in the first 5 minutes and the rest of the episode is the previous owner doing everything he can to get it back from Mickey who is home away from Jack and Ryan babysitting a child. Jack and Ryan are in this episode; they capture the antique at the beginning of the episode. The biggest problem is that this is not the show to have a hostage situation. It just doesn't hold your interest for the full 45 minutes of the episode. The ending's really cool though. The previous owner gets burned by his own object, his own obsession. That's really clever execution and very satisfying, but it takes a solid 40 minutes of a 45 minute episode before anything of worth really happens. Overall, this is just a clunker episode that is easily forgotten in the entire run of the show.