TV commentary:
Scream Queens- You know, I really wanted to hate this show, so I could discount it and move on, since I watch enough TV. (though I don't think its drawing the numbers Fox wants, so I'm guessing it won't last beyond the season) But the show can be pretty hilarious at times. Like some of the things are so over the top you can't help but crack up. Truthfully, I think it has an advantage over Glee in this respect. The problem with Glee was it had this same over the top humor at times, but at the same time, it wanted to be poignant and address serious issues. And I think the radical tonal shifts are what killed it.
But Scream Queens isn't the type of show to have very special episodes, so it can just be outrageous. People know what they're getting into, and won't get upset when it shifts from Burt giving a caring speech to his son to Sue freaking trapping Kurt and Blaine in an elevator with a Saw-puppet version of herself on a tricycle threatening to not let them out until they kiss. For god's sake, they had a very special ep about how Kitty had been molested at a sleep over when she was younger, and how no one believed her, and it ruined her life and she had to change schools and hide her past, but then in a different ep, make a joke about how Britney's first time was with someone who just crawled into her tent at cheerleader camp and she just had to let it happen. And its like... did they just gloss over her getting molested and play it off as a side joke?
But I digress, since Scream Queens is what it is, it can have ridiculous situations and just be dumb and funny. I can't remember if I posted about this last time, but I'm still too lazy to check because the Fox player sucks and the pilot was already erased off the DVR, but does the pin Grace carries that belonged to her mom, was it on Rose from Hart of Dixie when she died or is it not even hers at all? I feel like I may be missing a vital clue, especially since Grace thinks the killer is Chad and she went to do research with Pete to see if he could be the child? I mean, timeline wise, it does seem like Grace isn't old enough to be Rose's baby since she's an incoming freshman, and that the kid should be Chad's age. But I'm not sure if we the audience are supposed to know its wrong because she's the one with the pin.
Heh, other stuff, as I've said before, I do have a thing for Princess Leia's daughter on this, but maybe that's just my earmuff fetish. (Like really, if you were trying to use sexpionage to get like secrets or something out of me, and were trying to figure out how the girl should dress, it would involve like ear muffs, a varsity jacket, and knee high boots) Also, I'm amused that they've been really committing to the joke with just having her wear the earmuffs all the time. Its like, we get it, she's Carrie Fisher's daughter. It was also weird to hear
girl from Little Miss Sunshine all grown up and talking about getting double teamed. But hey, it was nice to see "Predatory Lez" was less of a caricature this ep.
Also, I love the soundtrack on this show. Like I'll never not crack up when a show uses Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's "Crossroads". But yeah, they've been playing a lot of recognizable hits these first three eps, I wonder how big their music budget is?
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