History Series / ScreamQueens2015

* KickTheSonOfABitch: When the Chanels beat the living crap out of a couple of obnoxious douche-bag frat boys in the cafeteria, ''everyone starts to cheer them''.

** Chanel specifically wants to work for Creator/FoxNewsChannel.

** At the end of the season, the Kappas have basically changed from a group of snotty right wing sorority girls to a bunch of homicidal (and homicidal maniac enabling) left wingers, meaning nothing was changed save for the political affiliation of the leadership caste. It get's worse: Zayday, Hester, and Grace also have Dean Munsch on their side, whereas with the Chanels, they were clearly at odds with the administration and Munsch, allowing them "cool rebel" status. And given that [[spoiler:Hester]] is a mass murderer, who has MAD level blackmail material on Munsch? God help the students of Wallace University, since Munsch will probably continue to cover up [[spoiler:Hester's crimes]], if she ever kills again since [[spoiler:Hester]] can destroy Munsch in a heartbeat.

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** For the faculty we have [[DeanBitterman Dean Munsch]] whose working to shut Kappa down, and is also a bitter, [[JadedWashout jaded]], [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] woman who was behind covering up the events in 95, and [[WomanScorned murdered her husband for leaving her]]. Grace’s father [[NiceGuy Wes]] who was a [[FormerTeenRebel Party Animal in his teens]] and [[spoiler:committed arson]] [[OverprotectiveDad to protect his daughter]]. And dedicated but [[LovableCoward only]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass sometimes capable]] security guard Denise Hemphill.

* OverprotectiveDad: Grace's father becomes the teacher of her film studies class to keep an eye on her. He is not even a film studies professor.

* ShoutOut: The entirety of visiting Hester to consult her on the new killings is clearly based on ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''. Likewise, one of the inmates flings cake into Chanel's hair. This is in reference of Multiple Miggs and him [[ADateWithRosiePalms "biting" himself]] and flinging his "blood" into Clarice's hair.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: {{Parodied}}. At Chanel #2's funeral, #3 laments that now they'll never find out what ethnicity she actually is. Her actress, Music/ArianaGrande, is of Italian descent, for the record.

The show is notable for its slick visual style and {{camp}}y, {{surreal humor}}, and many of the characters are broad {{archetype}}s with occasional moments of {{hidden depth|s}} -- this ''[[AuthorAppeal is]]'' a Ryan Murphy show, after all.

The show was canceled after two seasons, although its anthology format left no real lingering story. However, in 2020 Ryan Murphy confirmed that he was working on a third season revival of the show.

->''"It’ll be fun, like a 'Series/{{Friends}}' episode... but someone’s trying to murder all the Friends."''

''Scream Queens'' is a 2015 Creator/{{Fox}} [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror horror-comedy]] series by Creator/RyanMurphy. It features an {{ensemble cast}} including the likes of Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/EmmaRoberts, Creator/LeaMichele, Creator/SkylerSamuels, Music/KekePalmer, and Creator/AbigailBreslin, with [[Series/FullHouse John Stamos]] and Creator/TaylorLautner joining up in its second season. Music/NickJonas, Music/ArianaGrande, Creator/ColtonHaynes, and more familiar pop culture faces appear in minor roles.

** In season 2 premiere, Dr.Cascade played by Creator/TaylorLautner diagnoses a woman who has Hypertrichosis aka Werewolf Syndrome. Lautner played a werewolf in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series. There's also a joke about his body being cold, another ''Twilight'' reference.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Parodied. At Chanel #2's funeral, #3 laments that now they'll never find out what ethnicity she actually is. Her actress, Ariana Grande, is of Italian descent for the record.

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse in "Pumpkin Patch," Chad gives a speech about John F. Kennedy. During the speech, he refers to Kennedy as the 60th president, says he served in Vietnam, and attributes Franklin Roosevelt's "fear itself" quote to him. Calling Kennedy "John Fitzpatrick Kennedy, Jr." (President Kennedy's son is "Jr." and the F is actually for Fitzgerald) is the least glaring mistake he makes. Munsch can only express amazement that he managed to get into college.

* IllGirl: Hester, aka "Neckbrace", a girl with scoliosis. [[spoiler:Subverted, since she only ''pretends'' to have scoliosis and her neckbrace is not really hers, she stole it, as revealed in the finale.]]

** Their entire handling of Boone's death pushes this trope UpToEleven: For starters they manage to process the crime scene and move the body to the morgue without ever realizing that Boone is alive and the gash on his neck is fake. Then they rule the death a suicide... where the victim had a slashed throat and there are bloody footprints all over the crime scene. All of this of course, without the benefit of an autopsy, since the body ''disappeared from the morgue'' and they haven’t told anyone.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: All the sorority sisters and frat brothers are less than PC to one degree or another, but Chanel Oberlin takes it UpToEleven. She's shown to be racist, classist, homophobic and prejudiced against the fat, the deaf, the ugly… ''and that’s just in the first episode''.

* BaitAndSwitch: The opening scene features a girl running into a sorority party with her hands covered in blood, dramatically sayig that it isn't hers. Given the whole premise of the show, it's rather a surprise when it's actually from a pledge who just had a baby [[SurprisePregnancy while not even having been aware that she was pregnant.]] And then subverted, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome since the girl bleeds out and dies thanks to the sorority sisters neglecting to get her any medical help.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: The opening scene features a girl running into a sorority party with her hands covered in blood. Given the whole premise of the show, it's rather a surprise when it's actually from a pledge who just had a baby.

* {{Unishment}}: [[spoiler: After the Chanels sentenced to spend life in an insane asylum after their trial, they actually find happiness in the asylum. Chanel #3 fell love with one of the lesbian nurses, Chanel and Chanel #5 become best friends after the psychiatrists put the latter on medications that turn her into someone the former actually likes, and Chanel is voted "Asylum" president.]]