SCREAM THE TV SERIES: SOOOOOO CHEEEESSSSYYYY!!!!!

So I recently started watching Scream: the TV series, and being a fan of the original, which is one of my favorite movies, I just had to see it. And what are my major thoughts on it? I don't know whether to love, or hate it. Let's put it at this. By itself, it's super duper cheese and lots of fun. As a successor to the original movie, it's a horrible waste of time. The original, while being set in a 90's suburbs, has an overall timeless feel to it. This, on the first episode, throws YouTube, Twitter and Instagram at us. This to Scream is like Mean Girls to Mean Girls 2, which you have seen Mean Girls 2, you know what a disappointing waste of time that was. The first eight minutes introduces us to a YouTube viral video of two girls kissing in a car. (point lost) The video was posted by Mean Girl Nina played by Bella Throne. The scenes afterwards are supposed to be an homage to Drew Barrymore's role in Scream. Cast a well known actress, put her in the trailer, make her seem like a main character, and then kill her off in the beginning. But there's some differences.

In the original, Casey (Barrymore) is a fairly popular girl, but she's not a bitch. She's seemingly nice and is known to be a horror fan, so it's much more painful to see her die in the few minutes we spent with her. In this, Nina is a mean, nasty b-yotch, and totally deserved what she got. But the thing that sucked about it the most is the execution. In the movie, the killer plays with Casey before killing her, filling the air with suspense. In this one, the killer sends a few texts, throws a head in the pool and kills her. That's it. No suspense whatsoever.

Then we meet our main characters, and they are awful! Some characters are stereotypes of the original characters, and some characters are only here to be filler. In this, the Sydney character has been split like an amoeba and are now two different characters. One is Emma, and the other is Audrey. But Sidney isn't the only character that was split into two different characters. Randy is now also two different characters, taking on the forms of Noah and Riley. Billy is also two now. Will and Kieran. But The Stu and Tatum characters managed to be their own characters. Stu is now Jake, and Tatum is now Brooke. We also get to meet the new Gail Weathers,  Piper Shaw, who is by far the most redeemable character in this show. Everyone else is uninspired, unoriginal and just horrible.

Now let's talk about what I hate the most about this TV series. The new Ghostface. He is horrible! In the original, Ghostface was a guy in a Halloween store bought costume, and he was still scary. Here, they tried too hard to make him even scarier, even giving him an urban legend, but it comes across as cheesy. In the films, Ghostface doesn't rely on an urban legend and a homemade costume to be scary. He just is.