IN THE USUAL RYAN MURPHY FASHION
Ryan Murphy directed the first hour of tonight's two-hour Scream Queens premiere on FOX. The premiere opens with a scene set in 1995, at a sorority house party. The first shot is a close-up on a girl's blood-soaked hands, the right one quivering. She holds them palms-up as she walks through a party crowd to her sorority sisters. When the head sister sees her, she says, "Did you just get your period all over yourself?" [Small SPOILER ALERT]..... It turns out that the blood belongs to a pledge who has just given birth in a bathtub upstairs. The kicker (and this is so very 1995) is that the girl didn't have any idea she had even been pregnant.Scream Queens is a much jokier affair than Murphy and Brad Falchuk's American Horror Story, although it is cut from much the same tonal fabric, with a heavy syrup of Glee. (Falchuk, who directed tonight's second hour, co-created Glee as well as Scream Queens with Murphy and Ian Brennan.) Aside from Carrie, the premiere episode reminds of Heathers, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Halloween (via star Jamie Lee Curtis), Psycho, Friday The 13th, and Tim Burton's Batman. There's also an outrageous murder conducted via text messages and Facebook posts that you can't help but give in to-- I was laughing out loud, all the way to the final gasp of an implausible but uproarious punchline.
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Updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:10 AM CDT
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Updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:10 AM CDT
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