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Scream Queens


So this series is pretty weird, I liked it though but it's pretty satire. It also feels like if American Horror Story and Bad Neighbours had a baby, then this would be it. Pretty slapstick horror but in a good way. Slight SPOILERS but nothing you won't see in the trailer... maybe.

So in a flashback to 1995 a Kappa pledge has a baby in a bathtub during a party. She didn't even know she was pregnant but the sorority sisters don't want to miss out on the song Waterfall so they leave her there until the songs finished. So when the song is finished and they go back into the bathroom they find her dead as another sister holds the baby.

So back to 2015 Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts) is president of Kappa and she is an angry, horrible person. She breaks the fourth wall (well with her thoughts) and she introduces us to the rest of her Kappa sisters who she names Chanel 2, 3 and 5 as she doesn't care what there names are.

Chanel then has a meeting with the universities new Dean, Cathy Munch (Jamie Lee Curtis) who mentions the sororities colourful past including such incidents as drunk goat beastiality and the last president being assaulted. She wants to revoke Kappas charter but Gigi Caldwell arrives, she's there lawyer and Kappa alumni. She also seems to dress like its the 90's due to some traumatic event... *cough cough* I wonder if it's linked to the 1995 flashback.

Then we meet Grace Edwards (Skyler Samuels), it's her first day of college and her dad is driving her to campus. He asks her not to join a sorority and feels weirdly anxious of the thought of it. We then find out Graces mum died when she was two and she only naturally wants to feel close to her. That means she has to join the same sorority as her mum Kappa.

We are then introduced to Grace's roommate Zayday (Keke Palmer), Grace convinces her to pledge Kappa and we then met the rest of the potential pledges. At the meeting it is then announced by Dean Munch that Kappa cannot pick and choose it's pledges, doors are open to everyone. These include, Hester Ulrigh (Lea Michele), Tiffany (Whitney Meyer), Sam (Jeanna Han) and Jennifer (Breezy Eslin).

I'll try not to ruin the rest for those who haven't seen it. I'll just say its fun and campy. Some of the jokes could be crossing a line and made me feel a tad uncomfortable but it's satire, this may be due to the fact that it's mostly in the head of a vein, horrible person who hates everyone equally. Zayday would be my favorite character in it, she is so funny and Keke Palmer does a great job, same goes for Emma Roberts, she doesn't seem to get a lot of love for this character but she does a great job. The cast is full of women which is great for equality (feminism FTW!) and there all pretty funny. I'm looking very forward to seeing what else is in store.

Check it out, episodes one and two are available at the moment. Episode 3 is available 29th Sept.


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