Scream

I like this stuff. Male and female models, high school, parties, horror movie references, a scumbag with a razor, and no shortage of decent gore. The downside is the poor quality of the Scream mask, but it's made up for by his voice and wisecracks. The final trailer promises a decent horror rom. Episode 3 is the best so far. It's shaping up great, I'm enjoying Nerd and Brooke the most oddly enough. 80%. (2015-07-03)

I quite like the Scream films within its genre (especially the first and fourth ones) and I don't like horror movies, so I couldn't pass up the series version about a masked killer who plagues a small town and the people in it who have secrets from the past. Right off the bat, there are a few major differences that affected my final rating of the entire first season. Probably the biggest stumbling block was the mostly unlikeable cast, their oddball performances, and actually the somewhat low frequency of the killer's appearances and his looks. The creators managed to keep me in suspense until almost the very end before I suspected who the actual perpetrator was, which is a big plus. The few scenes in which the killer chased his victims also worked out well. All in all, an average series with a catchy (and borrowed) theme that gets noticeably tripped up by both the cast and the sort of too "high-school-teen-problems" look. (2016-02-01)

I have such a strange opinion about Scream. I had been avoiding it for a long time because I had read rather negative reviews like that it's a mess and simply a stupid series for teenagers. Well, basically it's absolutely true and I'm really aware of that. But something about it just entertains me. It's quite a relaxing thing, fortunately I quite like the characters, although what they go through there, I would have moved three times over by now. Basically, they have a tough shell, too tough indeed. And by that I mean that Scream doesn't really play that brilliantly with logic. The conclusion of season 1 seemed more like from a bad dream, and even though the writers try to be shocking, to me it felt like mockery and complete slapdash improvisation. Everyone is the killer and no one is the killer; the killer is everywhere and nowhere, just a really precise little assassin with a teleport and a very well-mastered hacking skill. However, so far it's just getting started shyly, the characters are rather stupid figures (except for the funny Noah) and it's hard to build any deeper relationship with this work. Season 2 starts to toughen up a bit, unfortunately, we are still on the same wave. Although, the plot is a bit more tangled and even more unbelievable, the killer is once again absolutely (un)shockingly revealed, and then we have an extra two-part Halloween special, which I didn't like much. We find out that the end of the second season was just an alternative one, and we reveal another killer again. Scream is really a stretch and unfortunately it is not done on purpose, but it is taken very seriously. If it weren't, my rating might be a star higher. Despite all of that, it's my guilty pleasure. The writers left an open ending, I'm afraid of how stereotypical the third season could be, and I'm curious how long those kids can last, but I keep watching. Also, I praise the great soundtrack. (2016-10-27)