Holiday TV: 'Cupid's Quiver' (Friday the 13th: The Series)

 Another Friday the 13th is here.  The first of 3 this Year.

This one comes the day before Valentine's Day, so love is truly in the air!

This is Season 1, Episode 3.  We are checking out...

A man is rejected at a Bar.

In response, he unwraps the Cupid Statuette that he apparently brought with him and uses it to entrance the woman who just turned him down.

Good thing this is Canada- they are too polite to steal it from the bar!

She falls in love with him and they have offscreen sex.

In the afterglow, he tries to choke her to death, spurred on by the creepy Statuette.

He's thankfully interrupted, but a College 'Kid' (who was nearby and called the Cops) takes the Cupid with him.

Our Heroes are now looking for it and we are at the Campus of said College 'Kid.'

We meet Eddie, who is the even creepier version of Langly from The Lone Gunmen and he's fixated on a girl.

He manages to steal the Statuette from the 'Kid' (since he's a lackey who cleans up for the frat).

He uses it at a bar to get what he wants.

In the afterglow, he enacts an elaborate murder plan involving opening a jar of honey, retrieving a Beehive (safely) and locking the woman in the car with said bees.

Foreshadowing the Vampire Bees in Season 2.

He uses it on his unrequited 'love,' but the gang interrupts and chases him off.

He gets Cupid back and gets her to show up...

...but it was actually a trick by our Heroes!

He tries to escape with it yet again, but falls to his death in the process.

Love hurts.

The End.

A tale of an incel decades before the term was coined.

This one is interesting, because they could have made the bad guy pathetic and made you feel sorry for him.  Instead, he's just a creep and you don't.

It is the easier choice, but is it the better one?

The Cupid Statuette is a creepy prop and it is elegant in its simplicity.  The face is creepy.  It moves just enough to let you know that it is magic.

Good work all around.

I appreciate the twists and turns in the tale.  It still goes where you think it will, but I appreciate the journey.
That said, why use bees to kill the girl in the truck?  So random!

All in all, it is a good (and topical) Episode.
Next, you'll tell me that the Director went on to be highly acclaimed or something...

A tale that is about love and rejection.  Just don't reject a chance to revisit this underrated Show.