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Scream Queens: “Ghost Stories” Review
Posted On Nov 18 2015
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Full spoilers for “Ghost Stories” continues below. I’d complained in previous weeks that it felt like Scream Queens was just filling space until the season finale, but this actually was a fun use of an episode. I equate it to the pre-Halloween episode that did the same thing.
Last week we watched as the student turned private investigator worked out the name of an older Kappa sister who died after giving birth to an infant in the bathroom of the sorority home. He still has yet to show up, which could mean more details and potential character connections with the Red Devil are yet to be revealed. Could it be that the dead KKT sister was a Manson fanatic who imparted their father’s mindset on to her twins? We’re all dying to know! However, instead of alleviating the fears of the members due to a serial killer at large, she will tell them a horrendous ghost tale. Boone borrows a “date shirt” from Chad to try and woo Zayday into getting with him – turns out, he’s not gay – by turning her shirt compliment into this amazingly bad pick-up line: “You know what it’s made out of?”
The promo below is a nice visual for most of that, complete with a trademark scream at the end. His packing obsession, his immediate acceptance that Boone is a ghost, his deadpan statement that he needs to marry Chanel #6 because he thinks she’s pregnant – it’s the one performance that is consistently flawless and hilarious, and he makes every episode better that he’s in.
Though there are only four episodes of Scream Queens left this season. SCREAM QUEENS is clearly strongest on episodes that narrow the scope and focus on the most essential characters.
Before I get into the three ghost stories that inhabit the Chanel plot, I want to go through everything Boone does in the episode.
He runs into Chanel #3 outside, when he’s outside pretending to be Joaquin Phoenix, and she’s the one that spreads the lie that he’s a ghost, an idea which Boone runs with. Could it be one of the Chanels? Better yet, this week’s episode was loaded with Chad.
