Friday the 13th: The Series Ep. 19 The Quilt of Hathor Review

The Quilt of Hathor originally aired on May 2, 1988. This was a phenomenal episode. It gave me exactly what I had been asking for: more connections to the characters. The majority of this episode takes place in an Amish community. Amish communities always fascinate me in film and this episode is no different. There's a scene early on when Ryan is dancing with this Amish girl Laura and it's like directly lifted from Witness it's not even funny. Ryan falls so deeply in love with Laura in this episode he gives up his duty to find the cursed objects. You can see in his eyes how deeply he feels connected to her. You feel for him and are rooting for him to win the girl. However, you also feel for Mickey who has such a strong connection to Ryan because of their duty. Mickey is devastated, left in tears at the prospect and what seems finality of Ryan leaving, and that's just the emotional part of the episode. The cursed antique is a quilt that makes your dreams a reality. If you dream someone to die, they die in real life. The boldest thing happened at the end of this episode...it didn't end. It was left open to be continued, a first for the series and a wonderful step in the right direction. The quilt Mickey has is a fake, proven by the fact that it can be destroyed. I can't even imagine how the show's audience must have felt by the finale of this episode. They must have been dying to see the next week's conclusion as well as I am right now.