The new comedy horror show from Glee creator Ryan Murphy, which had its global premiere in Los Angeles yesterday, has been praised as a “sorority-slasher howler” and horror movie send-up that succeeds more often than not in being amusing when it’s trying to be.
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The girl with the iron fist and a pink glove, as she is notoriously known for, is only choosing those she thinks are on her level and this is where she clashes with Dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis), who instructs her and reminds her that pledging should be open to each and every student. Skyler Samuels, our lead heroine, is more a of straight man for the other characters to bounce off of.
Futoncritic.com’s synopsis reads, “The girls of Kappa House are dying for new pledges”.
Ultimately, with its ceaseless meanness and barrage of put-downs, Scream Queens is more exhausting than exhilarating. As with most of his shows, you kind of have to throw away all logistics and just go with it, and this new FOX series is no exception.
JAMIE Lee Curtis has a confession to make. She’s clearly supposed to be the hero, protagonist, final girl or whatever you want to call her, and she embodies the designation while putting a fresh spin on the stereotype. Then there are the frat guys they date, Grace’s love interest, well-meaning parents, the head of the sorority, and a few other people – I’m not sure exactly where they fit in. At this rate she’ll be on her second divorce by the time she gets her diploma. “When you go after people like her and Nick, their schedules are so insane between touring and music”. When administrators force her sorority to start accepting all comers-even, Chanel says, the “fatties and ethnics” (plus, in a wicked bit of music criticism from the writers, a deaf Taylor Swift fan)-she starts to fight back in brutal ways. “Scream Queens” is obviously a vehicle for “American Horror“-star Roberts, which means Chanel never stops talking”.
There’s a killer on the loose at Wallace University, and the sisters of Kappa House are all potential victims – and suspects. And it’s not just the horror aspects of the show that rush on by.
Not only does the pilot episode fly by at a rip-roaring pace, but a good deal of the material will have you cracking up.
Viewers are likely meant to be as comically unsettled by Chanel’s antics as they are by the murder scenes, and sometimes they will be. One by one he (or she?) picks off the offensive. As for that gore, Murphy and his team strike an absolutely brilliant balance of gross-out visuals and over-the-top humor.
Nick Jonas plays, Boon, the unsuspecting best friend of Queen Bee Chanel’s unfaithful boyfriend Chad and fellow Dollar Scholars frat brother.
Scream Queens, from the mind of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, centers on the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority that is targeted by a serial killer wearing a red devil mask. He’s notorious for delivering highly entertaining concepts that eventually fizzle out.
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The show airs on Fox in the U.S. and does not yet have a United Kingdom broadcaster, but here is a quick guide to who’s who in Scream Queens.
