{"id":7900,"date":"2015-12-02T11:41:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2015-12-02T12:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:48:51","slug":"review-scream-queens-s1-e11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/02\/review-scream-queens-s1-e11\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: ‘Scream Queens’ S1 E11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe week before finale episodes always means one thing: slow.\u00a0That means\u00a0I should have seen it coming when nothing of real note happened during Tuesday\u2019s episode of Scream Queens<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I mean, sure, the Red Devil shoots Chanel with a crossbow \u2013 of course she has a furry sling \u2013 Grace gets kicked out of Kappa \u2013 way harsh of Zayday not to go with her \u2013 and Denise is revealed to be the new chief of police \u2013 I guess that\u2019s sort of a step up? But no one DIED. There was no real intrigue, no mystery, no worry that someone\u2019s life was actually at stake (except for that split second when I thought the writers were doing the unthinkable and killing Chanel off).<\/p>\n

There was, however, lots of talk about murder this episode of Scream Queens<\/em>, and surprisingly not from the Red Devil. The Kappas set out to murder Dean Munsch, who they\u2019re sure is the Devil, while Chad puts a threat on Pete\u2019s life. Haven\u2019t they all been through enough? Haven\u2019t enough people died needlessly? Why do they have to go around and throw more death into the mix?<\/p>\n

And poor Dean Munsch! After she proves her Rasputin-like powers and survives multiple murder attempts, she realizes that the Kappas didn\u2019t want to be friends and were instead trying to kill her. Even though the Dean is clearly a little bit of a psychopath, we\u2019ve also seen that she kind of has feelings. She seemed so excited about their feminist club that her face when she figured out Chanel\u2019s plan made me feel a little badly for her.<\/p>\n

While I didn\u2019t\u00a0believe that the Dean would successfully be murdered, Chad\u2019s throwaway comment about anyone who denies a Dickie Dollars duel will be killed had me a little concerned. It was a bit odd that they never touched back on that, but\u00a0perhaps they have to save all of the\u00a0major big deaths for next week. We\u2019ll come back to this in a bit, though.<\/p>\n

The biggest reveal during this week\u2019s episode of Scream Queens<\/em> was the motivation behind Gigi\u2019s murderous scheme. It turns out that she wasn\u2019t the Kappa to take the babies, her sister was. And when her sister couldn\u2019t take it any longer and killed herself, Gigi decided to raise the babies as murderers to get revenge for her sister\u2019s death. I\u2019m glad to see that the writers actually gave her character a believable motive, as well as the fact that Wes and the Kappas found out the truth behind Gigi.<\/p>\n

The other kind of reveal was that Pete is (probably) in cahoots with the Red Devils. Let\u2019s look at the evidence: after Boone\u2019s real death Pete is left all of Boone\u2019s possessions, which he explains away with a half ass excuse. Next, he acts super shady about not wanting Grace to resort to murder, and is super sketch talking about how the Devil is \u201call the mess and filth of this place.\u201d And finally, he tries to skip town due to his guilt about an unspecified event. Oh, yeah, and he tells Grace he\u2019s a murderer.<\/p>\n

Now, none of these things mean he\u2019s the Devil or even working with them. It could just mean that he\u2019s a separate murderer like Dean Munsch or Chanel Number One. It could be that the writers just want us to think he\u2019s in line with the Devils. That could be true. However, it\u2019s getting so close to the end that it\u2019s likely just the simple answer: that he was working with Boone all along. I can\u2019t remember which, but either my boyfriend or I called this the first episode. I hope it was me.<\/p>\n

There were two things that I noticed this episode that should have been above the Scream Queens<\/em> writers, the first being the blatant Galaxy Edge marketing, when Chanel gives one to each of the Chanels. The girls\u2019 phones flashing with the colorful edge feature unique to the Edge was directly followed by a Samsung Galaxy commercial. I know I can be a little unobservant sometimes, but I hadn\u2019t noticed any other blatant marketing in any previous episodes of Scream Queens<\/em>. Even though I wasn\u2019t all, \u201cI can never watch another episode again!\u201d I did\u00a0interpret that\u00a0as a little silly how they tried to squeeze it in there.<\/p>\n

The other thing that was cringe worthy was the Scream Queens<\/em> writing crew\u00a0attempting to take on the \u201cfirst time\u201d issue. It seemed like it was just thrown in without real thought or build up. While I know it was supposed to bring on a big reveal, it ended up just being kind of awkward, and not in a good way.<\/p>\n

No worries, though. Next week is another two-hour episode. Yay! It\u2019s also sure to be bloody, because the producers of Scream Queens<\/em> revealed long ago that only four would survive this season, and as of right now I count\u00a011 main characters.\u00a0This brings me to my earlier issue that they probably could have spared a few murders for this episode, but whatever. That means that next week\u2019s finale will keep us on the edge of our seats the entire two hours. Can\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The week before finale episodes always means one thing: slow.\u00a0That means\u00a0I should have seen it coming when nothing of real note happened during Tuesday\u2019s episode of Scream Queens. I mean, sure, the Red Devil shoots Chanel with a crossbow \u2013 of course she has a furry sling \u2013 Grace gets kicked out of Kappa \u2013<\/p>\n

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