Allie Kirkman is a freshman news journalism major and writes 'AK's OPINION: for the Daily News. Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Allie at aekirkman@bsu.edu.
For those of you who are into the B-movie style films that are so bad they’re good, the new Fox comedy/horror television series "Scream Queens" is for you. For those who don’t find comedy in continuous idiotic commentary and mean-spirited stereotypes, this show may be more exhausting than exhilarating.
The show begins with a flashback to 1995 in the Kappa Kappa Tau house of a crime that was never solved and haunts Kappa twenty years later. Chaos starts up present day after Cathy Munsch, the anti-sorority dean of the university played by Jamie Lee Curtis, goes head to head with Chanel Oberlin, Kappa’s snotty president played by Emma Roberts. Munsch says that the sorority must let any interested girl into the sorority. This news breaks out across campus and the Red Devil serial killer is born.
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The whole series is set up as a “who done it” with promises of at least one death in every episode until the identity of the Red Devil is revealed. But as each episode proves, every character has a secret and is more complex than when they were first introduced. This goes along with the writing style of creator Ryan Murphy who is also well known for his hit television shows Glee and American Horror Story. Twists and unexpected turns are the basis of the characters created by Murphy.
The show leans more on the comedy side than horror. The death scenes are poorly, cheaply done with dramatic effects that won't leave any viewer up all night in true terror. The action scenes, especially the ones involving murder, are sloppy and the acting isn’t the most attractive thing either. Personally, I think Emma Roberts is just a wooden actor and is expressionless most of the time. However, this may be due to her part as the president who lives out the stuck-up Greek stereotype.
What I can’t get past is everything that’s supposed to be funny about this show. Some of the lines are obviously directed towards a younger audience, being crude and down-right annoying. It's an overload of idiotic meanness and has absolutely no filter.
You might be thinking, "The show aired last week, so why do a review now?" Well, I didn’t want to base my opinion on the first airing of the show—pilot episodes are often only rough versions of what the show will become. So after week two this is how I feel: the show is okay. I feel like this is just going to be one of those shows where you either love it or you hate it.
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