Trying to make gallery with views in Drupal 7
This question could use a bit of clarification.


  Using views I made a tab menu page that will appear on only the Series content type


What does the view currently display if not all the pictures associated to the series? Just every single pictures that exists in the database? Or doesn't display anything? If it displays every single picture existing, then you need to add a "Contextual filter" to the view, choose the field that you use to reference the series. And choose "Provide a default value" and choose "Content ID from URL" option.

For display I would use HTML List type of views, and use image presets (core) to display the thumbnails and use lightbox2 (contrib) module to display the large image.