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TV Media Weekly | October 17 - 23, 2015 The Chanels aren't the only ones being targeted by the Red Devil; the sorority's batch of strange and quirky pledges aren't safe either. Far from endearing us to these mis- fits' quirks à la "Glee," the show makes most of them pretty irritat- ing so that, in their own way, they're not really preferable to the vicious Chanels — presumably so that we're not too distressed when one of them is decapitated by a lawnmower. If the show sounds violent — and it is, at times — the blood and gore are toned down by the funny, clever script and sheer outrageous- ness of the over-the-top attacks. And the screaming. There's a lot of screaming. A LOT. Falchuk dis- cussed the comedy/horror balance in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: "The way you find the balance is understanding that, when you're missing some ingredients, certain ingredients are super strong, and the flavor is so strong that if you use too much, it ruins the whole soup. Horror is something that is a really strong flavor, so just little drops of it is the best recipe." The actors haven't been told who the killer is or if and when they themselves will be offed, so really, they're just as in the dark about their characters' fates as the audience is. "We don't want to tell the ac- tors because it's more fun if they don't know, because then they all think that either they're the killer or that they could be killed," said Falchuk. "Everyone is a suspect — and they should be. Every one of those characters absolutely could be the killer. It's designed that way. Anyone could do it." By Jacqueline Spendlove TV Media W ith Halloween just around the corner, you're probably being inundated with mon- sters, gore and everything else typi- cal of the horror genre. It's the perfect season to get into "Scream Queens," the latest series from the creators of prime- time juggernauts "Glee" and "American Horror Story." Despite blood and murder aplenty, the horror-comedy anthology light- ens things up by combining terror and violent slayings with humor in an over-the-top parody of the genre — while serving up a mys- tery to boot. "Scream Queens" premiered last month and a new episode airs Tuesday, Oct. 20, on Fox. The series opens with a Kappa Kappa Tau sorority party in 1995. In an "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" situation, one of the sisters is dis- covered in the tub, covered in blood, with her new baby — "I thought it was the freshman 15," she wails. Her callous sisters aban- don her to go dance to TLC's "Wa- terfalls," and she succumbs to blood loss. Tragic. Twenty years later, Wallace Uni- versity's Kappa Kappa Tau is going strong, and is currently lorded over by the rich, beautiful and impecca- bly dressed Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts, "We're the Millers," 2013), a.k.a. Chanel No. 1, who's every bit as nasty and heartless as her '90s predecessors. To her horror and disgust, the school's new dean, Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis, "Halloween," 1978), is de- claring the highly exclusive sorority open to the unwashed masses — that is, anybody who wants to join, no matter how undesirable they may seem to Chanel and her ilk. As if that isn't bad enough, on the 20th anniversary of the 1995 death, terrible things start to hap- pen again. A devil-masked killer is targeting Kappa Kappa Tau, and the bodies start to pile up not long into the first episode. The show's feel is a blend of "Scream" (1996) and "Mean Girls" (2004), or, as co-creator Ryan Murphy put it in '80s terms, "Heathers" (1988) meets "Friday the 13th"(1980). "[Co-creators] Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] and I, all three of us, were always obsessed with the '80s/early '90s slasher genre that was always about young people and always about coming of age," he said in an interview with Enter- tainment Weekly. Like the Heathers, Chanel and her posse all have the same name. 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