Anyone else watching? I’m not really in to horror but I love absurd, tongue-in-cheek television and this is it!
All the characters are caricatures of sorority girls, frat boys, campus security, dopey girls who want to be in the sorority, a dean with a chip on her shoulder and others.
Jamie Lee Curtis is in it and she is the actual original “scream queen” thanks to her role in the Halloween movies. I think it’s interesting that she is in this along with Carrie Fisher’s daughter and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son.
People get killed in every episode in gruesome ways but it’s far from scary. There’s the ongoing mystery of who the masked killer is and why they are doing what they’re doing.
Anyway I was late to this show but I’m grooving on it. Very clever and very fun.
I stumbled onto a marathon of it yesterday. Not bad. It’s by the same production team that does “American Horror Story” but is totally different. Well, maybe not *totally *different, but certainly much lighter.
It’s further proof that Ryan Murphy is an insane person (if anyone still had doubts).
I didn’t know about the Fisher/Schwartznegger stuff, but I think everyone knows who Emma Roberts is, hopefully. She’s the real standout of that family, IMO.
I tried to give it a shot during the premier. Made it past the uproarious scene where the cook/maid was clawing the flesh of her face after being plunged into the deep fryer, but turned it off when the riding mower ran over the girl buried up to her neck, with gore spurting out the side. Hilarious! :rolleyes:
I guess I’m a prude/wimp. I was willing to give it a shot, but don’t know why it needed to be quite as graphic as it is.
After my long-running semi-abusive relationship with Ryan Murphy’s previous FOX series Glee finally ended, I decided to stay away from any of his future shows. I thus have no informed opinion about Scream Queens, but based on past experience I suspect it will alternate between fantastic and awful, often within a single episode and sometimes within a single scene. If you’re not up for that you probably made the right choice in bailing now.
I consider myself a pretty hard core horror fan but I don’t usually care for horror/comedy. I do love this show however. It’s an absurd parody of slasher flicks that hits all the right notes. They could probably get away with dropping the slasher bits all together and I’d still love it for the comedy.
I was disappointed in last nights finale. And I don’t know if anyone else also feels that AHS-Hotel was kinda slumping in story as both these shows slogged along.
I know that Scream Queens hasn’t had a favorable run with the critics, but it was juicy and horrible for the fans just the same.
I gave up on AHS Hotel. I watched the first couple of episodes. The rest are recorded, but I don’t know if I’ll watch.
I did really enjoy Scream Queens and thought it was just a fun, silly program. I hope they bring it back for at least one more season. Just to see if it can gain some traction.
I really liked it too. I didn’t catch much of the finale, because although it was on, there was too much conversation going on in the living room to hear the TV. I sat and watched it anyway…and after a little while it actually caught the attention of the talkers and dragged them in too. One of them said, “Huh, I thought this would be dumb but it’s pretty funny.”
I’m not digging American Horror Story too much, but this is the first season I’ve watched. Maybe it will grow on me.
