Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Scream: The TV Series… As we roll into the final few episodes Scream: The TV Series is gaining some serious momentum. Either putting Willa Fitzgerald through the Scream Queen wringer. Peppering the walls with Kubrick references, or employing strobe effects and pints of fake blood. Elsewhere however homages […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘In The Trenches’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Scream: The TV Series… When a twist makes you swear out loud, then someone, somewhere, did something right. Especially if that curveball is proper ‘Heath Robinson’. If I’ve lost you just Google the reference. Name checking The Expendables, Maze Runner and Shawshank in the space of five minutes […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Betrayed’
Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Scream: The TV Series… Amadeus Serafini is an anomaly. Part Christian Slater during his Nicholson phase, with a smidgen of Jason Patric pre Speed 2 and post Lost Boys. Noticeable only for his absence from my reviews, Serafini has floated around on the periphery having little impact for […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Exposed’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Scream: The TV Series… Webs of deceit are quickly unravelling this week in an episode where no one gets killed. Now I know the premise rests on someone regularly biting the dust, but every now and again it’s good to clean up. There are no film references or […]
MTV renews Scream for a second season
MTV has announced that it has renewed the small screen slasher Scream for a second season. “It has been a wonderful experience working with Bob Weinstein and his team, who are such connoisseurs of this genre, and we are thrilled by how our viewers have responded to the reinvention of Scream,” said Mina Lefevre, MTV’s […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Aftermath’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Scream: The TV Series… It would be presumptuous of me to think that I have influence on the course of any programme, much less one like Scream: The TV Series. That strangest of all hybrids. An ironic genre mash-up, which itself was a deconstruction and revitalisation of the […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Wanna Play A Game?’
Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Scream: The TV Series… Things are messy this week beginning with a misplaced opening flashback. Such techniques need employing with precision and purpose, to provide that all important point of reference. But what Scream: The TV Series does within five minutes is confuse rather than scare. A woman […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Hello, Emma’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Scream: The TV Series… It is now officially time for the gloves to come off. Scream: The TV Series rolls into episode two with mild invention and solid character development. Lifting dialogue from the film canon as a tagline and name dropping Manhunter references, this series is being […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 1 Review
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Scream: The TV Series… Anyone remember Party of Five? Exactly the same as Dawson’s Creek but without those homely qualities of a Katie Holmes or Michelle Williams. It aired on Channel Four in the Nineties, convincing Miramax producers that casting Neve Campbell in Scream was a good idea. […]