The Walking Dead TV Series "Days Gone By" Review

 

Fans of The Walking Dead if you recall yesterday I promised you that i'd cover the first episode of The Walking Dead and well i'm a man of my word. I will admit that I got into The Walking Dead TV series a little late into it's run like around season 6 or season 7 as such I never got the chance to see what the show was like when it was at it's best and so here is my review of the pilot episode of The Walking Dead Dead TV series not called pilot thank god but instead the episode is called "Days Gone By" enjoy the review everyone.

The plot of the episode is Sheriff's Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up in a hospital after being shot by a criminal only to discover not only his wife and son missing but that a zombie apocalypse has started. I will admit I fully enjoyed the story of this episode alot more then I did the story for the first episode of the prequel series Fear The Walking Dead mostly because here there was actually a strong story holding everything together where as with Fear The Walking Dead it felt like the story was only very freaking loosely connecting everything together.

Starring in this episode is Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes , Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh and Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes. Also starring in the episode is Jeffrey DeMunn as Dale Horvath , Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee , Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes , Jim Coleman as Lambert Kendal , Linds Edwards as Leon Basset , Keisha Tillis as Jenny Jones , Adrian Kali Turner as Duane Jones and Lennie James as Morgan Jones.

For those wondering yes Glenn does technically appear in this episode since his voice is heard at the end of the episode which is why I credited Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee in this episode. As for what I thought about the acting in this episode it's alot better then the acting in recent seasons of The Walking Dead i'll give it that and that's because they have this thing called a good script for you see when the script is good and gives the actor alot to work with then there going to do there best work but if the script is bad like in recent season of The Walking Dead then the actor can only do so much to make the script work.

One of the bad things about this episode is that we don't get to spend much time with alot of the other survivors in fact excluding Rick we only get to spend time with three other survivors in the entire episode. Those survivors being Shane Morgan and Morgan's son Duane Jones which for an ensemble show is pretty bad since you have to make us love all of the characters and when you don't feature all f them in your debut episode then you make it pretty hard for us to love these characters and yes i'm not counting Lori or Carl since we only get one scene with them at the episode and other three we spend time with get more scenes and more screen time.

This wouldn't be an issue if the show was thirty to forty minuets long however the show is well over an hour long and so there's really no excuse. They very easily could have had scenes at the end of the episode with the group of survivors just working out what they should do and if they should go and help Rick this way you could get across what the group's current dynamic is like as well as get across what most if not all of the characters are currently like.

If you recall in my previous post I put across the theory that Fear The Walking Dead at least for it's first season was set during the time that Rick was in hospital. Well I still think that this is true simply because we don't know how long Rick was in hospital and by the end of episode we see then pretty much the entire city of Atlanta has been wiped out and is full of zombies and so there for it is possible that the events of at least the first if not first few seasons of Fear The Walking Dead could have taken place within that small amount of time.

Out of the two pilots that i've seen for this franchise this is the better paced one since I didn't find myself checking the internet while I was watching this episode. I honestly feel that every scene in this debut episode lasts just as long as it needs to and then moves on as such we get a better paced episode and one that flows better but at the same time the end scene with the group of survivors with Shane really isn't needed since it adds nothing to the plot of this episode and nothing is missed if that scene was t be removed.

The zombie makeup for this series has always been top notch and the same is also true for this episode which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone since Greg Nicotero a legendary makeup artist provides the zombie makeup effects for this show. I honestly cannot praise the makeup effects in this episode enough because they look so freaking good and alot of the zombies look so creative simply because for some of them you can actually see how they died when they were human which is something that you very rarely get to see in any piece of zombie media.

This episode is an hour and seven minuets long which makes it three minuets longer then the pilot episode for Fear The Walking Dead which clocked in at an hour and four minuets. So it amazes me that even tho this is the longer episode it actually the shorter of the two and that might be because there's stuff actually happening in this episode where as in the Fear the Walking Dead pilot nothing really happens until maybe the last twenty minuets but here there's alot of things happening and because of that you the audience never get bored.

Now I actually lost count of how many on screen kills not including zombies that we actually see in this episode I do know tho that it's not a high number. Which yeah is honestly to be expected since this is a zombie show and so the scare doesn't come from the kills but rather the situations that are characters find themselves in and the threat that one of them could die at any minuet and in that regard is pretty creepy but at the same time I would have loved to see some kills.

Overall out of both this pilot and the one for Fear The Walking Dead i'd say that this is the better one simply because it had a stronger story among other things. As i've listed in this review this isn't a perfect episode but it is a good example of what this show could be like when it's at it's best and honestly based of this episode I can very easily see why AMC chose to keep this show around as long as did hell the next spin off series is premiering in a few days and as you all know is called The Walking Dead World Beyond as for this episode tho it gets an 8 out of 10 from me.

All of the images tat I used in this review were gathered from either the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page or Google Images. Since all of the main episode images I got were gathered from the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page I have no choice but to recommend the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page for high quality and high definition images from anything to do with The Walking Dead franchise and as always we end this review as we always do with our true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

  

 

Fear The Walking Dead "Pilot" Review

 

Comic book and horror fans i've been known to cover entire film series during these difficult times and well I thought that i;d tackle something a little different and that's take on two pilot episodes from The Walking Dead franchise. I will admit right now the only reason i'm doing this is because the new spin off series The Walking Dead: World Beyond starts on Sunday and that show looks pretty good and so here is my review of the debut episode of Fear The Walking Dead simply called "Pilot" and yes i'm covering these episodes in the order upon which they are set and not the order in which they were released and since Fear The Walking Dead is set before The Walking Dead i'm starting with that enjoy the review guys and girls.

The plot of the episode is after witnessing his friend kill someone junkie Nick has try to convince his mother and her boyfriend that something evil has started and that something will consume the entire human population. In all honesty the plot to the episode is alot better then what I made it out to be since the episode does a good job of telling it's story as well as setting up the zombie threat which for me at least is a good thing since this is a zombie show and so it makes sense that the actual zombies are treated like an actual threat and don't freaking sing and freaking dance *cough cough* Disney.

Starring in the episode is Kim Dickens as Madison Clark , Cliff Curtis as Travis Manawa and Frank Dillane as Nicholas Clark. Also starring in the episode is Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark , Elizabeth Rodriguez as Elizabeth Ortiz , Lorenzo James Henrie as Christopher Manawa , Maestro Harrell as Matt Sale , Scott Lawrence as Art Costa , Keith Powers as Calvin Jasper , Lincoln A. Castellanos as Tobias , Lynn Chen as A Nurse and Leon Thomas III as Russell.

Acting wise I feel that the episode does fair a little bit better but not by much and I say that because while the script is good dialog wise it's not so good character wise. The script doesn't give these actors that much to work with when it comes to there characters which means that the actors can only do so much in order to make the script work and while the actors do indeed do a solid job they can't be as good as they can be because the script doesn't allow them to be that good at least that's what I think anyways.

As mentioned this series is a prequel to main show however instead of featuring any of the main characters from the main show this show instead has a whole new set of characters. Which to me is the whole point of a prequel because now you have no idea if these characters are going to make it out of the episode alive or not because there not featured in this case even mentioned in the main show and so there's suspense and tension now there.

As to where exactly this fits into the shows timeline i'd say that it takes place slightly before , during and after Rick's coma. Of course this show would see a huge time jump for either season four or season five as such now the show runs currently with the main show with the events of both shows happening at pretty much the same time which for me just isn't that interesting yes it does open the door for possible crossovers but it also means that we don't get to see these characters learn that much about how this new world works or even how to kill zombies but there's a very freaking huge chance that they do learn how to kill zombie but i've just forgotten all about it.

As I said this show features an entire new cast of characters and what people forget about this show is that for some reason at least for this first season these new characters were pretty much hated by alot of people. Which is something that I just don't get yes this episode writes them pretty horribly but that doesn't mean that the characters themselves are bad Maddison for example is a caring mother who is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her kids safe this is something that we would see alot of during the characters time on the show.

We would also see the character of Nick learn to get of the drugs and learn his family is far more important then taking drugs. I'm not going to say that these are the best characters on TV because quite frankly there not but you can't fully judge a character of just one episode since in the case of this show you have eight episodes to get to know them and for there characters to be developed plus I think we can all agree that Maddison is the best character in this show and also one of the hottest females in The Walking Dead franchise.

One of the things that I feel that this episode doesn't do that well is explore the family's dynamic which considering that one of the big selling points of this show was that it features a blended family as the main cast is really something that they should have worked on. In fact we only get one scene with Travis's other family and that's not enough even more so when you take into account that his ex and his other son become main players in this first season with the son becoming a big player in the show's second season. 

While not having Travis's ex wife and son be main players in this episode might not seem like a big deal it does become a big deal when you take into account that the ex wife dies at the end of this first season and we the audience are expected to care about her character. That sadly cannot happen because we don't have enough time to get to know her as a character and so when she does die it feels like she was just another character and not a fully developed character.

Rather understandably there aren't that many deaths in this episode I think in total there's about three maybe four. That being said alot of the zombie related deaths were pretty tame since there just the typical death that you'd expect to see in anything to do with zombies which while it does make sense since this is meant to be the start of the zombie apocalypse but at the same time I do expect the deaths to be creative at least.

Overall this wasn't a bad debut episode and I can see why this show is still going on because even from this episode I can tell that the series had alot of potential. Even tho this was a solid episode there was alot of bad things that are present in the episode and those things for me at least are very fundamental in making the show live up to the high standard of The Walking Dead as such this episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Google Images , the official Fear The Walking Dead fandom wiki page or the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page. I have to say that even tho there was amore of a verity of images seen in the official Fear The Walking Dead fandom wiki page I have to recommend that you use the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page just because they are more high quality images on there then there is on the official Fear The Walking Dead fandom wiki page and as always we end this review as we always do with our true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

 

 

My First Impressions Of Ratched

 

Horror fans I seem to making it a habit of covering either horror comedies or horror TV shows well we continue that trend with a new TV show. I will fully admit I know nothing about either the character that this show is being based on or the book and various adaptations in which she appears as such i'll be judging this episode as just that a TV episode and nothing more and so here are my first impressions of the new Netflix TV series "Ratched" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Nurse Mildred Ratched seeks employment at Lucia State Hospital as it prepares to admit a new psychiatric patient notorious killer Edmund Tolleson. I admit the story wasn't as good as I thought it would be just based of the trailer I thought that the story would be a lot better and be told better and while the story is told rather well the actual plot I thought was rather weak at least for something that's over fifty five minuets long at least.

Starring in the episode is Sarah Paulson as Nurse Mildred Ratched and Finn Wittrock as Edmund Tolleson. Also starring in the episode is Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs , Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover , Charlie Carver as Huck Finnigan , Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket , Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright , Vincent D’Onofrio as Governor George Milburn , Alice Englert as Dolly , Hunter Parrish as Father Andrews and Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood.

The acting in the episode was honestly a lot better then what I thought it was going which is honestly a good thing because I had no idea what to expect from this show acting wise. Nor have I heard of alot of the main cast for this show and so to see that the episode was really well acted is for me a good sign since it says that the whole show could be very well acted as well plus how they got Sharon Stone to act in this is truly beyond me.

This show is based on the character Nurse Ratched who first appeared in the 1962 novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest as well as appearing in the film adaptation of the same name. I've not seen the film nor have I read the book but as far as I can tell this series is meant to be a prequel to the book which means that die hard fans should expect it to fall into the same trappings that all prequels that feature the same characters or cast fall into.

If your like me and you haven't read the book or seen the film version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest then everything you see in this series will be new information for you. As such I really can't knock it for falling into those same trappings that all prequels that feature the same cast or characters fall into since I don't know anything about the book or film but I will be interested to know what die hard fans think of this new take on the character.

To me what was interesting about this episode is seeing how manipulative the main character can truly be when she wants something. This is something that we see all throughout the episode and it's something that honestly makes the episode and possibly even this series pretty scary because she's willing to do whatever she needs to do in order to get whatever she wants be it a job or even if she wants someone to believe she's a kind person there's always manipulation involved and that makes the character pretty scary if you ask me.

Honestly this episode can be pretty boring at times and alot of that does come down to the fact that there's very little story. Which is why I feel that this series shouldn't have episodes that come close to being an hour long if anything all the episodes in this series should be under thirty minuets just because I feel that's how much story they have but I could be wrong in future episodes they might have enough story to cover nearly an hour running time.

Without giving much away in terms of spoilers I have to say that for me at least the best scene in the entire episode is at the end of the episode. Just because we get to see how creepy and how demanding Nurse Ratched can be as well how in control she really is it also helps that the writing , acting and directing in that scene is so well done it's great example of everything coming together perfectly and forming a great scene.

This is a horror show and that does mean that there are some deaths to be seen in this episode and as to be expected from a TV show there aren't that many deaths. I think we only see less then a handful of deaths and there all basic deaths there's all either throat slits or stabbings which is fine but when that's the only kind of killing that we see in the episode it does get kind of boring and it makes you wish that there was more of a verity of deaths.

Overall this is a pretty decent first episode and i'm glad that it got a two season order when it first picked up by Netflix just because there's alot of story with this character. That being this episode is pretty boring at times and I can see people being put off this series just due to that fact alone and since this is only my first impressions of the show I won't be giving you a rating and all the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Ratched fandom wiki page which I do highly recommend if you want to images from either this show or the episode just due to how high definition the images and as always we end this review as we always do with our true goddess Elvira wishing us al some very unpleasant dreams.

 

Friday The 13th: The Series "The Inheritance" Review

 

Horror fans alot of successful films have spawned TV shows it's oddly enough seems to be a right of passage for a horror film. Even more so for a slasher since for some strange reason TV executives seem to be obsessed with turning slasher films into TV shows and what alot of those shows have in common is they at least try to be like there respective film counterparts however there is one show which doesn't even try to be like the film series it's based off of and so here is my review of the debut episode of Friday The 13th: The Series with the episode being called "The Inheritance" enjoy the review guys and girls and everyone inbetween.

The plot of the episode is cousins Micki and Ryan inherit an antique shop from their late Uncle Lewis Vendredi and after selling one of the shops products they find everything in the shop is more deadly then they first fought and so have to try and get back the sold item in this case a doll before it's to late. Even tho I just gave a fairly detailed summery of the episode my summery is more story then what's featured in the actual episode since the actual story is so thin and it takes nearly twenty minuets to get going which is not a good thing at all.

Starring in the episode is John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion , Louise Robey as Micki Foster and Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak. Also starring in the episode is R.G. Armstrong as Lewis Vendredi , Sarah Polley as Mary , Lynne Cormack as Mrs. Irene Simms , Michael Fletcher as Mr. Simms , Esther Hockin as Babysitter , Sean Fagan as Boy #1 , Gordon Michael Woolvett as Boy #2 , Robyn Sheppard as Nurse and Barclay Hope as Boyd.

The acting in the episode even tho I say this alot I feel is true here but it was alot better then what I was expecting it to be. I went into this show expecting the acting to be really freaking bad if i'm being honest but to my surprise the acting was passable which for a show based of a movie is a very good thing , it helps that alot of the actors are at least putting in some effort into making the script and the idea work but they can only do so much tho.

Say whatever you will about the quality of Freddy's Nightmares at least that show is actually connected to the A Nightmare On Elm Street franchise even if it's just by having Robert Englund back as Freddy Krueger. This show literally has nothing to do with the Friday The 13th franchise hell even co-creator and Friday The 13th franchise producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. admitted that they only named the show Friday The 13th: The Series so it would be easier to sell the show to networks.

I get that you have to sell a show and I get that it could be hard selling a show and putting the name Friday the 13th in title would make it easier. However by doing that your going to make alot of fans of the Friday The 13th franchise both angry and confused angry because it doesn't feature any characters or settings that they are familiar with and confused because you don't make it clear if this is set in the same world as the films or not and so the fans will be watching just to see if there favourite character appears in any of the episodes.

In all honesty one of the good things about this episode hell about this series is the fact that they don't feature Jason's mask. I say this because there was a rumour going around that if the show did get a fourth season or even more time to film a final episode then they would have tried to connect the show to the movies through the way of using Jason's mask which on paper sounds cool but when you take into account that we see how Jason got his mask in Friday The 13th Part 3 it really makes no sense for the mask to appear in this show.

Perhaps the biggest issue that I have with the show is the fact that the story takes close to twenty minuets to get going. I say this because the episode is forty five minuets long (an hour with adverts / commercials) and so for a story to take that long to get going is not a good thing at all since it means that your now rushing to hit all of these plot points without taking the time to get us there at a more natural pace as such the episode has very uneven pacing with the first twenty minuets feeling pretty dull and going slow as heck but the final twenty five minuets going by super fast as such it leaves the episode feeling very uneven.

Now given that this show debuted on October 3rd 1987 and the original Child's Play movie was released on November 9th 1988 I feel that someone copied someone when it comes to the killer doll concept. Just because there are far to man similarities between Chucky and the doll that is featured in this episode I don't know who copied who but it's clear to me that someone copied someone and i'm hoping that i'm not the only one that feels like this.

Just to make things clear on what those similarities first is the fact that the kid is attached to the doll which while it doesn't mean that the concept was copied it does however lead into what else is to follow. Since both Child's Play and this episode have the kid and doll try and kill people only in this episode the kid knows what she's doing and the fact that there's something supernatural involved is enough to make me wonder who copied who.

Unlike the Friday The 13th films this series takes on a supernatural approach instead of being a slasher which from a budget point of view makes sense since it would cost alot to produce high quality make up effects. However at the same time the die hard fans of the Friday The 13th franchise would be expecting this show to be a slasher and so to against that would only upset the fans but all of that could avoided if they just changed the title of the show to it's original title which was The 13th Hour which to me is a more fitting title.

This show started airing on October 3rd 1987 with the final episode of the show airing on May 26th 1990 with the show lasting a good three seasons. This show actually didn't air on any network instead it went straight to syndication and so it aired on many channels / networks all at once which I honestly feel was a bad move for this show because the people who bought the show must have been expecting an actual Friday The 13th show and not something that is literally Friday the 13th in name only but who knows maybe the various networks knew what they were getting themselves into.

Overall this episode while it wasn't that bad it wasn't that good either it was a very mixed bag in almost every aspect. For everything that this gets right there are two or three things that it gets wrong which for your debut episode is not a good thing at all since it doesn't leave a good enough first impression on the viewers but the fact that this show lasted three seasons means that there must be some fans who like this show this episode tho gets a 5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Friday The 13th fandom wiki page , the official A Nightmare On Elm Street fandom wiki page , the official Child's Play fandom wiki or Google Images. If we are talking strictly images from this show then I would recommend Google Images just because those images I found to be more high definition however if we are talking images in this review then I have to recommend the official Child's Play fandom wiki page just because the poster for the original Child's Play was nearly nine mega bites and as always we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

 

  

The Final Girls Review

 

Horror fans the slasher genre was at it's peak in the eighties and  the one setting that audiences seemed to love was the summer camp setting. Hell that setting was loved so much that you could honestly make a film just riffing on the tropes that you'd see in one of those movies and well one such movie actually exists and well I thought I thought i'd take a look at it mostly because I honestly haven't reviewed this movie and so here is my review of "The Final Girls" enjoy the review everyone.

The plot of the movie is five high school students find themselves trapped in a nineteen eighties camp slasher film called "Camp Bloodbath" and have to find away to survive the movie while also teaming up with the cast of the movie one of whom happens to be the dead mother of one of the friends. The idea of having kids transported into a summer camp horror movie is honestly an idea that I haven't seen done before and I don't know it's not been done since this movie since the jokes honestly do write themselves and the story itself is honestly really freaking well told in my honest opinion.

Starring in the film is Taissa Farmiga as Max Cartwright and Malin Åkerman as Nancy / Amanda Cartwright. Also starring in the film is Alexander Ludwig as Chris Briggs , Nina Dobrev as Vicki Summers , Alia Shawkat as Gertie Michaels , Thomas Middleditch as Duncan , Adam DeVine as Kurt , Angela Trimbur as Tina , Chloe Bridges as Paula , Tory N. Thompson as Blake and Daniel Norris as Billy Murphy.

The acting in this film is alot better then it really had any right to be I don't think anybody would have blamed these actors if they turned in a bad performance. However none of them do in fact alot of the performers in this film turn in funny performances which for a comedy is always a good thing and it helps that the script while there's not alot there in terms of character there's enough for the actors to make the script work.

This film takes shot at pretty much any slasher film that's set at a summer camp most notably Friday The 13th. Since how this film's killer came to be could be seen as a spoof of Jason Voorhees as well as the fact that the villain's main theme is a spoof of Jason's classic theme and the fact that the killer in this film like Jason wears a mask that looks like a hockey mask , I honestly like that they chose to borrow elements from the Friday The 13th movies and spoof them but at the same time I couldn't help but wonder why they didn't look at other slasher based summer camp films like how funny would it have been to see them try and spoof Sleepaway Camp for example.

Even tho this is a horror film to me the main focus of the film and it's story isn't about the friends trying to survive this movie but rather the fact that Max our man character trying to come to terms with the death of her mother. This to me is seen quite alot in the film since out of all the movie characters that she could form a bond with it's her mothers character that she goes to and when she feels stressed out it's her mother's character that comes to comfort her and hell they even have a heart to heart talk near the end of the movie thus making sure that Max has come to terms with the death of her mother but thats just what I think anyways.

There are alot of crazy cool camera movements in this movie which is honestly something that I wasn't expecting to see at all. However while those camera movements are indeed pretty cool nine times out of ten there not really showing stuff that's important to the story however there are times where the camera does pick up stuff that's important to the film and it's story like for example the theatre scene we see every part of what causes the fire which leads to our main cast breaking the screen and thus becoming trapped in the movie but then there are times like the car crash at the start where the camera rolls with the car and that's just not needed since we don't need to see that.

I had only one wish during this movie that's when the our main cast get trapped in the movie I wished that the film went all out to sell us that it's in a cheesy slasher summer camp movie. Like they could have changed the aspect ratio to the screen more like a VHS / TV and the video and sound quality should have been dropped those things to me would have not only been pretty funny but it also would have helped sell the fact that our main characters are in a cheesy as hell summer camp slasher film but nope they keep everything the same.

This film has a lot of commentary when it comes to slasher films set at a summer camp like the fact that the writing is very rarely that good or the fact that they feature the same sort of characters. It's that kind of attention to detail that makes me believe that writers M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller watched alot of these movies because they hit alot of the tropes that are found in those movies even like I said to using the same kind of characters in every film.

Now then since this is a horror comedy it only makes sense that I talk about the jokes that are in the film. Which yeah the jokes really aren't that funny at least in my opinion anyways which is a shame because alot of the actors are giving really funny performances the actress who plays Tina (Angela Trimbur) is honestly really funny but alot of the time the cast are given nothing funny to say which is something that you never want in a comedy.

Now it wouldn't be a slasher film without any kills and so it only makes sense that we now talk about those kills. Which yeah just like the jokes did nothing for me personally but here I feel that that makes some sense since the focus is more on spoofing the summer camp slasher film rather then being an actual slasher but with that being said it is still kind of a slasher film and so you'd expect the kills to be pretty decent which sadly they weren't or at least in my opinion they weren't anyways but her you guys might like the kills in this film.

Overall this is honestly a really entertaining film that doesn't take itself to seriously and yet still finds time to have those serious moments. I'm not going to lie and say that this is a perfect film because as i've said in this very review that couldn't be further from the truth with one issue being that the film doesn't take full advantage of it's cheesy 1980's summer camp slasher movie setting but even with all that mind the film gets a 7 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from Wikipedia , the official Friday The 13th film fandom wiki page and Google Images. Honestly given that I got more images from Google Images I kind of have no choice to recommend that you use Google Images if you want images from this film just because out of the three websites that I used Google Images is the only one with high definition images from this film and as always we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

 

 

Scream: The TV Series "Pilot" Review

 

When it comes to the Scream franchise it seems that people only seem to talk about the first two films with some people occasionally talking the third and fourth films. However it seems that no one talks about the TV series and I don't get why since it does have involvement from franchise creator Kevin Williamson and was one of the last projects that original franchise director Wes Craven worked on and so here is my review of Scream: The TV Series with the episode called "Pilot" enjoy the review everyone.

The plot of the episode is a high school student is killed in her home and her death is a catalyst for a series of events that will change a group of friends forever for better or worse. I will fully admit that this was perhaps one of the hardest summaries that i've written just because this is a mystery show and those typically don't reveal anything regarding plot and the plot of the first episode is usually pretty hard to find but the story here while it was pretty thin at times it was still an enjoyable story to see play out.

Starring in the episode is Willa Fitzgerald as Emma Duval , Bex Taylor-Klaus as Audrey Jensen and John Karna as Noah Foster. Also starring in the episode is Amadeus Serafini as Kieran Wilcox , Connor Weil as Will Belmont , Carlson Young as Brooke Maddox , Jason Wiles as Sheriff Clark Hudson , Tracy Middendorf as Maggie Duval , Brianne Tju as Riley Marra , Max Lloyd-Jones as Tyler O'Neill , Mike Vaughn as The Voice Of The Killer and Bella Thorne as Nina Patterson.

Acting wise this episode isn't that good which is sadly what I expected to be the case which is a shame because a TV series based on Scream should be super easy to write and even easier to act. However barring a few actors alot of the actors in this episode just don't do a good job in this episode and the writing let's all of the actors down since the kind of writing that you expect to find on a bad show on The CW and not something that you'd expected from an entry in the Scream franchise.

As you can tell by the name of the series this show is set in the world of the Scream franchise however you don't need to have seen any of the films of watch this episode. Since the show makes no reference to the films or even includes any of the films characters which for me is huge disappointment because you could have had the die hard fans watching this episode if for example Sidney , Gale or even Dewey appear for quick cameo near the start of the episode or even at the end of the episode.

I can see why they chose not to have any of the characters from the films appear since they most likely want this show to stand on it's own two feet which is fair enough but the makers of this show must have known that this franchise has die hard fans and those fans would have loved to have seen any of the films characters appear even if it's just for a quick cameo. Hell they don't even mention any of the films characters or it's location despite the fact that in the Scream Gale wrote a few books detailing the events of the first film which were then turned into very successful movies and so the town would have been very well known as a result and so it would have been very plausible for this show's Randy Noah to know all about Woodsboro.

As is tradition with the Scream franchise this episode and thus the series opens up with a big name star getting killed off. I'm honestly glad that they chose to keep this tradition alive just because even tho it's a very small thing to include it's something that the fans of the franchise would have missed and the fact that the major star in this season was Bella Thorne who incase you didn't know has been in some trouble recently only made it all the more sweet and kind of ironic or at least in my opinion it seems ironic anyways.

As with anything to do with the Scream franchise this episode makes fun of the fact that a slasher film couldn't be turned into a TV show. This was something that I actually liked because when the show was first being made I had these exact same questions and so it felt like the show was answering or at least asking something that I myself was asking only instead of doing it on articles about the show it was being done in a classroom.

To me something that really wasn't needed was seeing the reason as to why pretty much everyone hates Bella Throne's character Nina Patterson. To me that really wasn't needed as it adds nothing at all to the overall story as such I honestly feel that they should have kept it hidden as to why everyone hated Nina or have some people have mixed feelings about her plus it just felt like a pointless update to something that didn't really need updating.

I mentioned this before but it's a pretty big issue and so I want to bring it up again and that's the fact that the writing in this episode is really bad. The writing in at least the first two Scream films while top notch is at least bearable the same cannot be said here since the writing treats it's audience like there kids and so everything is dumbed down and the teenagers in this episode don't talk like actual teenagers they talk like what  thirty to forty year old thinks teenagers talk like which is just freaking bad in my opinion.

In a rather understandable move there aren't really that many deaths in this episode in fact there's only two or three deaths in the whole episode which for something that's forty four minuets is to be expected. I will say that the three deaths that we do get in this episode are in my opinion really well done and while there not super creative they do add stuff to the story be it kicking of the events of this season or adding to the season's overall story.

Overall this episode was honestly pretty decent it did have alot of good things going for it but sadly it had alot more things going against it. There are a ton of things that this episode gets wrong and you only get one chance to make a good first impression and while the rest of the series is at least decent from what I remember looking back on it now it's a wonder that this show even got to season 2 let alone season 3 as such this episode gets a 5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Scream fandom wiki page or Google Images. I honestly cannot say where it's better to get images from since from what I can tell the official Scream fandom wiki page doesn't have that many images when it comes to this episode and the image I got of Google Images is pretty low quality as such i'll just say use whichever website you want and as always we end this review with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.