Scream Queens (No Spoilers)

IMO, I think it shows some promise. Pretty funny, Ryan Murphy has a knack for assembling good casts, interesting music, and some unexpected twists. Either you love RM or hate him, I give him a pass sometime just for getting The Normal Heart made and directing it.

This show does have a blast with Jaime Lee, Emma Roberts, Lea M...and a lot of pretty young men too.

I can't take Murphy's Boys in the Band-era vision of misogyny transplanted into the mouths of women. I didn't make it past 40 minutes.

I laughed a few times, but I thought the whole thing was generally awful. It makes American Horror Story look like Shakespeare. Every time someone opened their mouths it was to deliver stilted exposition. Sure, a lot of these people were meeting for the first time, but everyone conversation seemed to be, " I am blank. I am from blank. My parent did blank, etc."

All of the black women were caricatures, even if Niecey Nash and Keke Palmer were pretty funny with what they had to work with. They show contains Murphy's patented "ironic" racism and - like Namo mentioned - outright contempt for women.

I liked when Goldie Hawn's hot son said, "You may not know this, but I'm a professor." That was not clumsy at all. And then he demanded a job! After the school year had already started! And wouldn't he have already had another job?

But nobody on this show behaves like a person in the real world, which is fine, since none of them look like they'd go to a college in the real world, anyway. But it's such a cartoon that I can't figure out what I'm supposed to care about.

Updated On: 9/23/15 at 09:40 AM

Why do Ryan and Lea insist on playing out their S&M psychodrama in front of the cameras?

Currently watching it now. Question: How is Emma Roberts a working actor? Truly a mystery.

Jamie Lee Curtis deserves better, but I see why she took the role.

From the AV Club recap

One of the biggest discussions is of course the one on race, and Scream Queens makes itself an easy target for that. In fact, it absolutely invites such discussions by continuing Team Murphy’s—despite being three white men—habit of having characters be outwardly despicable (yet supposedly entertaining) in the form of conversational racist, bigoted, hate speech.

“You see, out in the real world, people just don’t talk that way to other people. It’s not normal.”

When Jamie Lee Curtis’ Dean Cathy Munsch (who is basically the Dean from every movie about fraternities) says this, it takes on two meanings. The worst, more obvious meaning is the one where it’s basically an excuse for this show to have most of its characters speak to each other with total disrespect and absolutely no filters. By saying that there’s an awareness that this is not a great way to speak to or treat people—especially those that are considered “other”—it covers the bases for the show to continue to have characters speak and act that way. There’s the real world, and then there’s this world. It’s a pre-dismissal of the arguments against Murphy, Falchuck, and Brennan writing such hateful (no matter how exaggerated and creative—and sometimes juvenile) speech in this and any of their shows.

That AV Club quote is so spectacularly on the nose Ryan Murphy should look like WC Fields. It's time for his ilk to know the world is moving on rapidly.

Like I said at the start of this thread, #1) Let the haters begin....#2) People, this AIN"T Shakespeare.

I also don't know how seriously to take an AV Club review written by the same angry woman that reviews WWE wrestling and special "Boy Meets World" episodes...

Anyway I get it, it's not for everyone, you just don't need to make it your life's mission to crap all over it. One thing that would make Scream Queens better would be to cast Varla Jean Merman, as the killer even; maybe then people would get the camp for what it is. ..alright, already...

Oh Namo, has the sex dried up again and that's why your bitch is back? Personally I think this appeals to people who just wanna sit back and have fun and not over think. This ain't high art and ain't pretending to be, it's dumb fun and silly entertainment that has it's tongue firmly planted in it's cheek.

I watched it today on hulu+. I thought it was hilarious! I really enjoyed it.

I'm watching this now and I'm shocked at how it's even worse than I imagined it could be. Hopefully it'll get cancelled and show Murphy that everything he touches is not, in fact, gold.

I honestly think Murphy thinks he's making some sort of social commentary against racism with this script.

You know Ryan Murphy puts on skimpy little dresses and prances around his house saying mean sh*t to himself in the mirror, pretending he's that despicable Emma Roberts character.