Scream: The TV Series (TV Series) Pilot (2015) User Reviews

This new adaptation of Scream may singlehandedly revitalize the slasher genre

[lnvicta · 7/10 · 1 July 2015]

After one episode I can safely say this is head and shoulders above Scream 2 and 3, and many recent slasher rehashes/remakes for that matter. Was it as good as the original? I have no clue, it's on an entirely different playing field. But for what it was - the pilot of an slasher TV show based on the iconic meta horror franchise Scream - it was fantastic. It has the classic wit and meta humor the series is famous for and managed to set up a world for old school slasher fans to get immersed in.

The characters have promise. Since it was the pilot there was some cringey expository dialogue and abysmal acting, but the leads have potential and none of the characters were outright annoying which was a pleasant surprise. It allows room for these characters to evolve into more than just archetypes as it's plainly stated in the show, which is a large part in what makes horror effective. Mind you, this wasn't scary, and it didn't try to be. However there are a few thrilling sequences that pay homage to the original Scream while still feeling fresh and creepy.

Scream recognizes exactly what it is, outing every generic horror trope the genre has to offer, and plays them out cleverly with buoyant finesse. The mystery will be long-lasting this time around: A full season's worth is a lot of hours and very few horror franchises managed to pull off that much of the same schtick (say what you will about Friday the 13th, at least it was consistently campy). But this pilot bodes well for the upcoming installments, promising a decent amount of suspense, self-aware humor, and the resurgence of one of slasher's most memorable villains.

After such a great setup, Scream may prove to be the next great horror mystery show and a harbinger for the bright future of slashers in television. This is certainly a show to watch out for.

Solid start !

[nicofreezer · 8/10 · 1 November 2021]

Overall i had a good time, but 40 minutes is short for a pilot. I loved the opening scène of course like the movie. Also the scene were they talk about TV shows Walking dead, kinda funny and when the geek talked about how slasher cannot because TV show, when its exactly what this show try to do, funny.

Last 15 minutes at the party was fun too 8/10 episode , ( but to see the osn of the sheriff not wanting anything to do with brooke is not really logical, how Can someone not beeing interested in having sec with brooke. I guess they need to make him badass, poor character develepment here, i already cannot stand this guy, they want too hard for us to love him )

Scream: The TV Series (2015) Pilot.

[nebohr · 6/10 · 6 April 2022]

If you have little experience with the slasher genre then this is probably a decent series for you to enjoy.

If you do have experience with slashers then you probably won't enjoy this series because there is very little original material here. Cookie cutter characters who are unbelievably dumb. Jump scares that are ineffective. Cliched male teens with raging hormones. Teacher taking advantage of student. On and on and on.

We did start the review with our normal 8- star rating, though.

This spin-off to the Scream franchise is exciting to watch!

[nhoover-40022 · 10/10 · 9 July 2015]

At first, I was wondering how are they going to keep the fans of the movies interested while making the show stand out as though not to compare it so much to the franchise. The first thing they've done is focus on social media as they used youtube to upload a video that went viral, and spoke of facebook, twitter, and instagram. Almost everyone of mixed generations are using social media to connect and share just about everything in their lives. So, what better way to make the show uniquely their own than to have the students and whoever the killer(s) are use social media to connect on a daily basis? This way it allows the killer(s) to remain hidden even in plain sight as they pick out their victims.

What I enjoy doing is noticing the subtle differences they use between what they say in the movies versus what they say on the show. A few examples for instance, we all know the famous catch phrase in the movies "Do you like scary movies?" and "I want to know who I'm looking at. I want to know who I'm talking too." and "What door am I at?" Where in there TV show they say, "What are you doing home tonight? Watching some TV?" and "You do look tired. You sound tired." and "What you should really be asking is Did you just lock me in or out?" This way we can relate to the version of the movies while allowing the show to stand out on their own.

The main focus on the show seems to be allowing the viewers constantly guess who the killer(s) is/are as we slowly get to know each characters personality. As the character Noah has mentioned, Everyone lies. Everyone has secrets. And everybody are suspects because they all have their own motive. This is what makes the show a great horror mystery filled with potential bloody crime/murder scenes!

" iPhone, Touch Phones, Luxurious Houses and Teenage Rebels Include the Television Adaptation of " Scream "

[FelipeCarrillo · 9/10 · 22 February 2016]

The 90s were a big decade for world film, especially for horror, forcing every instant classics, one of them was the great reinvention of the Slasher, Wes Craven's "Scream". This classic influenced for "Halloween" and "Friday 13th" finished its career during 2011, with its fourth movie that destroyed all the constructed so far. It is now that they decide to revive the classic with a television series seemingly aimed at young people, under the channel MTV and Wes as executive producer.

The current version, adopted explicitly every detail and characters of the original, a group of high school students (the characters almost identical to the film's horror) that without thinking, they are subjected to a series of murder in Lakewood, a local legend that revives, everyone can be suspect but anyone can be the next.

"Scream" opens its pilot episode, praising the classical scene starring by Drew Barrymore, from the first moment, we know that Nina (Bella Thorne) and Tyler (Max Lloyd-Jones) are involved with cyberbullying towards Audrey's sexual video, this time the prelude to her death is more modern and sophisticated but permeating the atmosphere and dye of the original.

As it is mentioned above, it is possible that series is directed to teenagers, but in my opinion any lover of the franchise and the genre will have an exciting and interesting experience.

After seeing the first episode, presented to us to the cast of potential assassins, the innocent protagonist Emma (Willa Fitzgerald), her boyfriend and fellow Will (Connor Weil), her group of friends popular, Brooke (Carlson Young), her suitor, Jake (Tom Maden) and Riley (Brianne tju) in addition to the main character and first suspect of the massacre to come Audrey (Taylor-Bex Klaus), part funny and curious Noah (John Karna) and another possible suspect Kieran (Amadeus Serafini), they complete the bait for the legend of the village.

In the series premiere , they projected us the concern and speculation of group of friends for the embarrassing video, ordering a super party at the home of Brooke, a clear call to death, while Emma does everything is at your fingertips for a conversation with Audrey , which is very complicated.

It is refreshing and fast its central development, showing a possible likelihood of the origin of the killer, since its inception. It tells the legend of the village, 20 years ago, a strange boy was rejected and avoided by his friends, falling in love head over heels of Emmas's mom (surprisingly!), Daidy.

The appearance of the murderer is more soft and smooth as the original, but collects the same tricks of his predecessor, Emma anonymous phone calls, and the delivery of a heart of human for Daisy. The change in appearance of the famous mask is a double-edged weapon, not generating much terror to see it but respect and honor to the man or woman under the mask.

Nice phrases and parliaments of Noah where thoughts and opinions of what we think viewers say: "You root for them. You love them. So when they're brutally murdered, it hurts." The pilot episode plays its role perfectly, introducing to us in an urban myth, the presentation of the guys, and possible roots and beginnings of the problem.

The first chapter of TV adaptation "Scream" doesn't offer much, showing the same touches of horror than those of the film, aside from the reinvention of the genre, also gives us an acceptable teen drama, intelligent and compelling performances, some original characters and a murderer who provides the necessary mystery for TV.

MTV not aimed to create and renew the famous saga of terror, it was to create a series almost identical, having clear who would like more its series (adolescents), leaving much to be desired for the fans of the franchise, but running a tasty and entertaining experience for the public young, that the only thing you want is blood.

Scream continues next Tuesday with 'Hello, Emma'

Good set up

[Calicodreamin · 7/10 · 1 October 2020]

A good set up for a slasher series: teens that look like their 30, boos and parties and a creepy lake, teen drama, and a super creepy killer.

Daisy....Daisy.....

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 27 October 2020]

Scream is one of my favourite movies of all time, it's icon, fair to say the latter movies weren't so good, many, including me, expected this series to be rubbish.

However, it's not, it's great, and this is an excellent first episode, the story does actually work very well. They capture the essence of the first movie, the first killing (I won't name the famous star just in case,) and it's well made.

The mask, a shame it's not the original, but no matter.

Full of the beautiful people. It looks great.

I love the joke made in class about a slasher movie story being only suitable for a movie, not a series, this would prove that theory wrong.

Bex Taylor Klaus is the standout for me, Audrey is an interesting character, and her acting is a cut above, she is a class act.

Terrific start, 9/10.

Scream but i dont know

[AvionPrince16 · 6/10 · 19 September 2023]

I dont really like the episode but i dont hate it either. Im pretty curious about what they will make later and how it will end. The beginning let me pretty surprised: i really enjoyed it and the murder work well and really make us think about the movies. But after that, the rythm decreased and we have just some stories of teenagers and we have all the clichés: the lesbian, the discrimination, the horror movies (like in the movies). So yeah i dont reallly know what to think for now but i hope it will get a little bit more interesting in the next episodes. We have also some scenes who are just copied and pasted from the movies and some of them look a little bit forced. It was just my feeling and how i perceived this first episode. I will continue despite my disappointment but need to say that it still have some dumb teenagers, a killer and some murders. So its interesting to see or to know who is the killer? We have also that kind of way to make us confused and make rise our suspicions with ome teenagers but its kind of superficial for now. Need to see more.

Almost Nothing of Interest in this Introduction to Scream, the TV Series

[HowItWorked · 4/10 · 7 July 2015]

Beyond the poor acting of cookie-cutter characters- jocks, awkward nerds, popular people who aren't jerks (wow, way to change it up!), there's nothing holding this together to make the viewer interested in what's going on. The most interesting moments of this first episode were the mother's relationship with a possibly dead or alive killer (who, for whatever reason, and I can't believe nobody's questioning this, was shot by one of twenty officers and then... left in the lake? after killing multiple people? for the sake of... the plot?). Everything is a rehash of a hundred other horror movies who did it better, especially the original Scream series that this is pretty loosely based off of. At least in the original cult movie, the meta references to horror movies weren't so contrived to the point that you're wondering whether somebody made a mistake in post-production. It's really not that hard. In the Scream movies, characters liked and knew some aspects of horror movies. In this TV series, we get characters forcing obnoxious lines on us in one of the show's most expositional and self-serving scenes. One character barely connects the Gothic theme of the class's book to Gothic horror being all over TV, referencing American Horror Story, Bates Motel, and Hannibal. Then, just like we saw in the trailer, the obnoxious Noah Foster character, played by John Karna, corrects his classmate who asks about movies like "Halloween" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in a monologue so contrived and unrelated to what's going on, you can picture the screenwriters at the last minute putting together its flimsy frame just to give the character something close to a reason to be saying it.

As for whether this show is scary... it's not, unless you're afraid of scary music and children's songs being sung slowly in the dark. Perhaps there could've be a sense of dread in some scenes if these 29 year old actors weren't so bad at playing 16 year old stereotypes. They only have about 1000 hours of footage to work from of the exact same characters in different shows and movies.

It doesn't feel like the creators of this show tried to make something unique and good. There were some, but very few moments that seemed original or interesting, like Snapchats from a killer, something ominous, smart, relevant; but even those were surrounded by such bad writing that they didn't really make a difference. At almost every turn of the episode, you can hear producers filling in the blanks of what to include based on what people liked in other shows and movies far more original than this.

It was also annoying to see another form of media try to incorporate "viral content" so unsuccessfully yet again. A video of two random, same-sex, unknown high school students kissing... in 2015... is viral? And just because you want some characters to be evil, doesn't mean that they can't be well-written. Are you telling me that these teens just go around finding students to film so that their videos can become viral? And that people at their school still respect them? Why are so many teenage characters written after 2010 obsessed with only three things- sex, popularity, and going viral? Do networks think we'll care about characters less if they're, I don't know, slightly unique at all? Complaining about characters being too unoriginal is not a new complaint in itself, but it's still a valid one here. Even if this show had invented all of its forgettable, cookie-cutter plots and characters, they're all still executed so plainly that nobody would even bother trying to copy them.

Being gay is scandalous in 2015???

[agm-78108 · 1/10 · 12 November 2021]

I am 10 minutes in to the pilot and it's already ridiculous. This show is from 2015 and a video of two girls kissing is scandalous enough to trend on all social media, garnering over 500 views? Then the next day everyone at the school is staring and gossiping? I could see if this was from the '90s maybe but 2015? I mean hell we got legally married in 2015!! Nonsense. DATED.

First Episode

[msudude22 · 1/10 · 23 February 2022]

I turned the first episode off after 20 minutes. The actors playing teenagers are way too old to be playing high school students. It was lame. Don't waste your time.

So not believable

[Just-A-Girl-14 · 3/10 · 2 May 2020]

I refuse to believe American teenagers are that dumb! Seriously, I love horror shows but I wish it was made to at least appear realistic. If you like dumb slasher movies, you'll probably like this. If not, skip it.