Scream (TV Series) Review

It's over. The first season of this attempt to bring Wes Craven's slasher love to the MTV is ended and it has bring us some fun, laughs, scares and disappointment. Sometimes teen meolodrama looking, sometimes soft tribute thriller, there's at least something really  good to say about Scream: it's fun as hell at some points. Yes, obviously the show does not keep that level at all of its 10 episodes, but pilot and last four episodes maintain suspense, jokes and reference. If we really take account that this is an almost 8 hours of approach to a 4 movie saga, this is quite admirable.



Introducing is half of a victory, and Pilot was something peculiar, fancy and mid interesting. Even when myself (who really enjoyed Pilot) claimed about no-phone call at the very first murder, there was still a really cool exposition about new suspense tricks taking new social networks as an useful tool. Never thought Snapchat could have a profitable existence. Also, we didn't have to wait so long for the first creepy psycho phone call, as we had that 'You gotta ask yourself: did you lock me in or out?' at the very second episode.



Characters: Here we got something kind of complicated, as Scream saga used to create stereotypes as part of the parody movie was. However, here we have really mediocre actors along some who are not so bad playing the stereotype. Shameful or the perfect cover? The point is not such a big deal when it comes to tense and funny scenes, but it's when drama comes around (along death, obviuosly) when this all deliberate ridiculous acting falls apart.


Story: The fact that this new version turns into pyschokiller mythos positively affects on the references (Friday the 13th is one of the biggest examples) but it carries the story into more predictable fields and less surprising and shocking moments. I'm not going to spoil you guys anything but if you pay attention careful, there's a huge hint in the middle of the season about who the real killer is, and it only happens cause they show too much background of the original murders.

But, don't get me wrong, it's still really fun to play with the mystery. And yes, as we all supposed even before first episode came out, best part of the show is the new Randy, here called Noah. They've added something even more interesting to the character. While at the first three movies (I don't count that double Randy at the fourth one, that didn't work for me at all) Randy was aware that the killer was using clichés for the murders, this Noah sometimes gives the impression of actually being aware of him being inside a slasher tv show. That meta approach is definetly one of the coolest moment.

Basically, Scream the TV Series achieve on twisting the saga into something fun, enjoyable, not so scary, that creates an entire new universe for his own purpose. They could definitely do better in casting and being more careful with hints they show during season. But, anyways, it has a cool cinematography if we consider that is MTV the one behind the project and, in opposite to show writers' opinion, second season should totally be based on college enviroment. That could give you wider options in cast and it would create a marvelous parallelism with movies.