SERIES PREMIERE: Emma Roberts, who’s stood out in the most recent American Horror Story reboot, stars in this new series, also from Ryan Murphy. It’s also envisioned as an anthology series, reimagining itself after each season, which in this case is planned at 13 episodes. It’s set at a college sorority, where a bloody and long-buried tragedy from 20 years before returns to haunt Roberts’ Chanel Oberlin and the rest of her snooty sorority sisters, as well as the geeky new pledges forced upon the sorority by the no-nonsense university dean of students. She’s played by Jamie Lee Curtis, who steals this show almost effortlessly from Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Ariana Grande and others. But the tone of Scream Queens is too arch, too mean, and, like the recent CBS series Stalker and Fox’s own The Following, too in love with its own depiction and glorification of violence. As a curiosity, sample it once, if you like – but I don’t think you’ll like. For a full review, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.

Leave a Comment: (No HTML, 1000 chars max)

Name (required)

Email (required) (will not be published)


Type in the verification word shown on the image.

New From TVWW

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption