*Spoilers*
Emma is really, really annoying me. Why go the that funfair, on your own, in the dark to meet dead guy Eddie? She's an idiot. Same for Noah, really. Just because he has survived before does not mean that he will survive now. Although, I would be gutted if he died as he is one of my favourites. Audrey admits to Noah that she brought Piper to Lakewood because she wanted to do a documentary on Brandon James, and she insists that she did not know anything about the murders - how true is this, really?
It seems Kieran is a bit on edge with how he feels with Emma, to be honest, me too. I liked her a lot in season one, now I really don't.
Brooke got all badass with Mr Branson but looks like more fool her. The killer comes into the hotel room and chops his hand off and burns it with an iron. Gross. Brooke was right to question why Seth lied about his whereabouts the night Jake died. He said he was with the psychology teacher, but, we now know he was waiting in that room for Jake, who was apparently going to give him ten grand to stay away from Brooke.
I can't help but think Stavo has some underlying motive, perhaps to do with Brooke.
Why were Riley's emails sent to Emma's dad sent from Emma's IP address?
Bit of a slow episode, I used to be able to write loads but lately that does not seem the case.
Oh - I don't think I caught any moth-man references either.
Monday, 21 November 2016
[Television] Scream - Season 2, Episode 5: "Dawn Of The Dead."
Dawn of the Dead is one of my favourite Romero films. Good title choice.
*Spoilers*
Just like Dawn of the Dead, the school went into lock down (Dawn locked down the shopping mall) after Jake's body fell from the rafters in the school theatre. Poor Brooke had to stand there still whilst Maggie took photographic evidence of the body. She's distraught - we can see. Annoyingly, further along the series Brook asks Maggie how long she thinks he has been dead, Maggie says 2-3 days and the Sheriff removes Maggie from the case due to her giving away important information. Oh dear.
I guess the main question is: how did Jake's phone end up in Emma's bag? Also, after this crazy girl fight with Emma and that idiot who pranked Audrey, Emma gets locked in a room by her psychology teacher? This teacher is off to me and I don't like her. She's always offering support to the Lakewood 6, well, 5, and she's been caught recording conversations (by the viewer, not the characters). Emma seems to be going absolutely crazy. She's hallucinating and acting out a lot, she's not making sense, she's smashing windows. She's totally drawing unwanted attention to herself. Would not surprise me if she was the killer and she was blacking out and doing this, whilst playing the victim. A bit like Fight Club - two personalities and does not even realise. She has a call from the killer, and she now knows that this is real and there is a new killer... finally.
Kieran's cousin, Eli, offering to get rid of the phone - odd.
Stavo's drawings of the Lakewood 6 getting brutally murdered - odd.
Stavo's dad, the Sheriff, not questioning his son about the mask in his room - odd.
Kieran has a gun in his locker, understandable that he wants to protects his friends, but - odd.
I did, however, feel bad for Stavo when he got jumped by all those students, all because of Audrey... she's winding me right up. She had something to do with this. What the Hell is going on right now?
We end the episode with Noah taking Audrey's phone and seeing the GIF of her on it where she is next to Jake's corpse. Big shock to Noah... let's see what he does with this information.
*Spoilers*
Just like Dawn of the Dead, the school went into lock down (Dawn locked down the shopping mall) after Jake's body fell from the rafters in the school theatre. Poor Brooke had to stand there still whilst Maggie took photographic evidence of the body. She's distraught - we can see. Annoyingly, further along the series Brook asks Maggie how long she thinks he has been dead, Maggie says 2-3 days and the Sheriff removes Maggie from the case due to her giving away important information. Oh dear.
I guess the main question is: how did Jake's phone end up in Emma's bag? Also, after this crazy girl fight with Emma and that idiot who pranked Audrey, Emma gets locked in a room by her psychology teacher? This teacher is off to me and I don't like her. She's always offering support to the Lakewood 6, well, 5, and she's been caught recording conversations (by the viewer, not the characters). Emma seems to be going absolutely crazy. She's hallucinating and acting out a lot, she's not making sense, she's smashing windows. She's totally drawing unwanted attention to herself. Would not surprise me if she was the killer and she was blacking out and doing this, whilst playing the victim. A bit like Fight Club - two personalities and does not even realise. She has a call from the killer, and she now knows that this is real and there is a new killer... finally.
Kieran's cousin, Eli, offering to get rid of the phone - odd.
Stavo's drawings of the Lakewood 6 getting brutally murdered - odd.
Stavo's dad, the Sheriff, not questioning his son about the mask in his room - odd.
Kieran has a gun in his locker, understandable that he wants to protects his friends, but - odd.
I did, however, feel bad for Stavo when he got jumped by all those students, all because of Audrey... she's winding me right up. She had something to do with this. What the Hell is going on right now?
We end the episode with Noah taking Audrey's phone and seeing the GIF of her on it where she is next to Jake's corpse. Big shock to Noah... let's see what he does with this information.
[Television] Scream - Season 2, Episode 4: "Happy Birthday To Me."
*Spoilers*
Audrey tries to bury that cork screw that was left in her car, only for it to turn up in her bed... nice.
Stavo seems to be obsessed with the 'Lakewood 6' and is drawing some kind of comic based on them. The end drawing is that of Emma, with a knife in her head.
It's Kieran's birthday and Emma was just going to do something as a couple. However, his cousin tells her he wanted something big so she has a party at her house. The cousin and Emma share an awkward moment where they look as if they're going to kiss. Not good. Anyway, they are luckily interrupted by Brooke who knocks on the door. In her hand is a very expensive tequila that is apparently from Jake. (The viewer knows it's not from Jake, because, well, he died a couple episodes ago.) Turns out this tequila has been spiked and everyone at the party is off their heads and hallucinating. Audrey 'sees' Rachel and kisses her, turns out it's actually Noah and he, Audrey and Zoe share some weird three way kiss. Emma follows the girl she sees in her dreams, only to be attacked outside by someone with the Brandon James mask. She is saved by her dad.
Noah has lost his shot with Zoe which is sad. Emma realises that if what she saw was not a hallucination, then there is another killer on the loose and it is happening all over again. Kieran's cousin is trying to mess with Emma and seemingly turn her off of Kieran, how mean.
Back to Stavo - his dad (the Sheriff) finds a Brandon James mask in his room. However, I am not putting too much thought into this. Any horror nerd likes to collect horror memorabilia - no matter how morbid.
The episode ends with Brooke on stage competing with four other girls in a pageant. In sheer Carrie style a banner comes down from the ceiling, pouring blood all over Brooke and her lovely white dress, and Jake's body lands in front of her. How heartbreaking for her. I liked the homage to Carrie, though.
Really good episode. I am still left wondering who the killer is.
Audrey tries to bury that cork screw that was left in her car, only for it to turn up in her bed... nice.
Stavo seems to be obsessed with the 'Lakewood 6' and is drawing some kind of comic based on them. The end drawing is that of Emma, with a knife in her head.
It's Kieran's birthday and Emma was just going to do something as a couple. However, his cousin tells her he wanted something big so she has a party at her house. The cousin and Emma share an awkward moment where they look as if they're going to kiss. Not good. Anyway, they are luckily interrupted by Brooke who knocks on the door. In her hand is a very expensive tequila that is apparently from Jake. (The viewer knows it's not from Jake, because, well, he died a couple episodes ago.) Turns out this tequila has been spiked and everyone at the party is off their heads and hallucinating. Audrey 'sees' Rachel and kisses her, turns out it's actually Noah and he, Audrey and Zoe share some weird three way kiss. Emma follows the girl she sees in her dreams, only to be attacked outside by someone with the Brandon James mask. She is saved by her dad.
Noah has lost his shot with Zoe which is sad. Emma realises that if what she saw was not a hallucination, then there is another killer on the loose and it is happening all over again. Kieran's cousin is trying to mess with Emma and seemingly turn her off of Kieran, how mean.
Back to Stavo - his dad (the Sheriff) finds a Brandon James mask in his room. However, I am not putting too much thought into this. Any horror nerd likes to collect horror memorabilia - no matter how morbid.
The episode ends with Brooke on stage competing with four other girls in a pageant. In sheer Carrie style a banner comes down from the ceiling, pouring blood all over Brooke and her lovely white dress, and Jake's body lands in front of her. How heartbreaking for her. I liked the homage to Carrie, though.
Really good episode. I am still left wondering who the killer is.
[Television] Scream - Season 2, Episode 3: "Vacancy."
*Spoilers*
So Audrey finds Jake's body in that storage unit with a note pinned to him saying "See how I finished the job for you, Audrey?" That's a bit weird. She obviously can't call the police as that will incriminate her and whatever she has done in season one. So, she leaves his decaying body there until she returns with Noah. Low and behold the unit is empty and filled with furniture, although Noah notices a camera and takes this with hopes of finding something on it. When we get to Noah's house Audrey grabs a bookend and is about to hit Noah over the head with it so he doesn't find out what is on the tape... are you serious? She could have killed her best friend. Fortunately for Noah there is no media detected so his head stays intact. Audrey receives a text with a picture of Jake's body saying "don't worry, partner. I covered for you."
Emma meets her dad, for real this time, and he doesn't give her the answers she is looking for. We later find out that he beat her mum and broke her jaw... nice. He turns up at Maggie's door and states that he has received emails from Riley about Emma and this is contributing to the reason why he came back. Maggie tells him to go to the police, due to their history and all.
There's this new Sheriff's son and he seems odd. He seems obsessed with Brooke and keeps talking to her about Jake. He even pretends to be her boyfriend when Mr Branson turns up again. This is where we find out that it was actually Mr Branson that left the flowers on Brooke's car and not Jake's killer.
Remember that poor guy who Noah interviewed for his podcast? The front desk guy, Eddie, from the hotel? Well he was savagely killed, poor guy. The killer then texts Emma pretending to be her dad and asks her to meet them in the hotel room where Eddie was killed. Luckily she does not walk in the bathroom as this is where Eddie's body is (in the bath, like Psycho with the famous shower scene). Audrey gets a live feed from the killer showing her where Emma is, and Audrey rushes to the hotel to find Emma. Luckily Emma had walked out so was safe for another night. The killer texts Audrey saying that she should not have called the police and has left the corkscrew used to kill Eddie under her seat. Cool.
I'm not digging this Audrey story-line at the moment but I am sure I will once it starts to unravel.
So Audrey finds Jake's body in that storage unit with a note pinned to him saying "See how I finished the job for you, Audrey?" That's a bit weird. She obviously can't call the police as that will incriminate her and whatever she has done in season one. So, she leaves his decaying body there until she returns with Noah. Low and behold the unit is empty and filled with furniture, although Noah notices a camera and takes this with hopes of finding something on it. When we get to Noah's house Audrey grabs a bookend and is about to hit Noah over the head with it so he doesn't find out what is on the tape... are you serious? She could have killed her best friend. Fortunately for Noah there is no media detected so his head stays intact. Audrey receives a text with a picture of Jake's body saying "don't worry, partner. I covered for you."
Emma meets her dad, for real this time, and he doesn't give her the answers she is looking for. We later find out that he beat her mum and broke her jaw... nice. He turns up at Maggie's door and states that he has received emails from Riley about Emma and this is contributing to the reason why he came back. Maggie tells him to go to the police, due to their history and all.
There's this new Sheriff's son and he seems odd. He seems obsessed with Brooke and keeps talking to her about Jake. He even pretends to be her boyfriend when Mr Branson turns up again. This is where we find out that it was actually Mr Branson that left the flowers on Brooke's car and not Jake's killer.
Remember that poor guy who Noah interviewed for his podcast? The front desk guy, Eddie, from the hotel? Well he was savagely killed, poor guy. The killer then texts Emma pretending to be her dad and asks her to meet them in the hotel room where Eddie was killed. Luckily she does not walk in the bathroom as this is where Eddie's body is (in the bath, like Psycho with the famous shower scene). Audrey gets a live feed from the killer showing her where Emma is, and Audrey rushes to the hotel to find Emma. Luckily Emma had walked out so was safe for another night. The killer texts Audrey saying that she should not have called the police and has left the corkscrew used to kill Eddie under her seat. Cool.
I'm not digging this Audrey story-line at the moment but I am sure I will once it starts to unravel.
[Television] Scream - Season 2, Episode 2: "Psycho."
So I noticed a Vacancy reference (the sign) but not a Psycho reference...
*Spoilers*
Anyway, it turns out Emma was dreaming of the farm because her mother would take her there when she was little to visit the James family. Emma and her mother go back to that creepy barn house, only to find that there were no pictures or news paper clippings of her there at all. Brooke voiced her opinion in thinking that Emma was hallucinating, just like she did with Will and her father.
It is here that I noticed a credit: Executive Producer Wes Craven. Why haven't I noticed this before? It's super cool that Wes Craven worked on this series as he was such a great guy. Horror legend. RIP.
I kept noticing this blue Buick following Emma but thankfully we did not have to wait long to find out who it was. Her dad is officially back. Not hallucinated back, back for real.
I'm glad Kieran does not have to move to Atlanta now. But I find his aunt and cousin really weird. They are clearly in this for their own beneficial reasons and not for Kieran.
Audrey is doing my nut in. So Noah tries to get an interview with this hotel worker who claims to know Piper's accomplice. He was so close to saying who and then receives a call from Audrey that states if he tells anyone she will rip his guts out or something... Thus, putting Noah's podcast on a stand still. Noah stated that this worker said there is a room full of stuff people have left behind and he believes some stuff could belong to Piper. Is this the Psycho reference? The hotel? Perhaps I should have paid a bit more attention. Audrey breaks in after dark to find Jake's body in there with a note on how they are finishing the job for her or something. Odd. Very odd.
Normally I can write paragraphs and paragraphs but this episode I can't. I don't feel we've reached the tense part yet.
*Spoilers*
Anyway, it turns out Emma was dreaming of the farm because her mother would take her there when she was little to visit the James family. Emma and her mother go back to that creepy barn house, only to find that there were no pictures or news paper clippings of her there at all. Brooke voiced her opinion in thinking that Emma was hallucinating, just like she did with Will and her father.
It is here that I noticed a credit: Executive Producer Wes Craven. Why haven't I noticed this before? It's super cool that Wes Craven worked on this series as he was such a great guy. Horror legend. RIP.
I kept noticing this blue Buick following Emma but thankfully we did not have to wait long to find out who it was. Her dad is officially back. Not hallucinated back, back for real.
I'm glad Kieran does not have to move to Atlanta now. But I find his aunt and cousin really weird. They are clearly in this for their own beneficial reasons and not for Kieran.
Audrey is doing my nut in. So Noah tries to get an interview with this hotel worker who claims to know Piper's accomplice. He was so close to saying who and then receives a call from Audrey that states if he tells anyone she will rip his guts out or something... Thus, putting Noah's podcast on a stand still. Noah stated that this worker said there is a room full of stuff people have left behind and he believes some stuff could belong to Piper. Is this the Psycho reference? The hotel? Perhaps I should have paid a bit more attention. Audrey breaks in after dark to find Jake's body in there with a note on how they are finishing the job for her or something. Odd. Very odd.
Normally I can write paragraphs and paragraphs but this episode I can't. I don't feel we've reached the tense part yet.
[Television] Scream - Season 2, Episode 1: "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
*Spoilers*
So just like Scream 2 we started the episode where teens are in the cinema watching a movie based on the events that happened in the lives of the characters in season 1. Audrey works in the cinema and falls for a prank done by two teens from her school. They pretend to be the killer and chase her about, leading to the part where she stabs the ghostface. I never understood people doing pranks like this, they do it in the Scream franchise and you just think, people actually died. These are the lives of real people. Anyway, Audrey is inundated with texts stating how they 'know what she did last summer' - told you there was this feel about the series. So clearly she was some accomplice, she even got really defensive when Noah suggested that there was one, to which she snapped that there wasn't. These letters to Piper are more than just incriminating. Or is Audrey just one to stick in the 'it's not what it looks like' category?
Emma returns from a psychiatric ward I'm guessing after she had a massive breakdown in school after the murders. She returns home and the others throw a welcome home party for her. Things with Kieran are weird. They broke up and remained friends, but now she is back he is acting sketchy. She has these nightmares about a barn owned by Brandon's brother and she goes to visit it. I guess we will have to keep on watching to see where this ends up, because as she investigates with Brooke, she walks into the house opposite and there are pictures and news clippings of her everywhere, also there is the (presumed) killer.
Brooke and Jake are finally together but I am so upset that this had to end so quickly. I feel so bad for Jake. He was killed in such a brutal way. How awful for him. I will miss him, and poor Brooke is yet to find out.
There is a new Sheriff in town and with a new Sheriff comes a new son, Stavos - a horror nerd like Noah, cool. We are also introduced to new girl Zoe. She knows everything about her psychology class and her and Noah seem to have a bit of chemistry.
I love the Romero reference. Audrey tells Noah that there is a 'Romero-thon.' I am a big Romero fan, love his zombie films, I even met him and London Film and Comic Con. He's really cool.
Flicking through Netflix I have noticed that all the episodes are named after horror movies. What a really cool addition. I love horror movies, so I wonder if there's reference to them all in the episodes? Hopefully season 2 does season 1 justice as season 1 was absolutely incredible.
So just like Scream 2 we started the episode where teens are in the cinema watching a movie based on the events that happened in the lives of the characters in season 1. Audrey works in the cinema and falls for a prank done by two teens from her school. They pretend to be the killer and chase her about, leading to the part where she stabs the ghostface. I never understood people doing pranks like this, they do it in the Scream franchise and you just think, people actually died. These are the lives of real people. Anyway, Audrey is inundated with texts stating how they 'know what she did last summer' - told you there was this feel about the series. So clearly she was some accomplice, she even got really defensive when Noah suggested that there was one, to which she snapped that there wasn't. These letters to Piper are more than just incriminating. Or is Audrey just one to stick in the 'it's not what it looks like' category?
Emma returns from a psychiatric ward I'm guessing after she had a massive breakdown in school after the murders. She returns home and the others throw a welcome home party for her. Things with Kieran are weird. They broke up and remained friends, but now she is back he is acting sketchy. She has these nightmares about a barn owned by Brandon's brother and she goes to visit it. I guess we will have to keep on watching to see where this ends up, because as she investigates with Brooke, she walks into the house opposite and there are pictures and news clippings of her everywhere, also there is the (presumed) killer.
Brooke and Jake are finally together but I am so upset that this had to end so quickly. I feel so bad for Jake. He was killed in such a brutal way. How awful for him. I will miss him, and poor Brooke is yet to find out.
There is a new Sheriff in town and with a new Sheriff comes a new son, Stavos - a horror nerd like Noah, cool. We are also introduced to new girl Zoe. She knows everything about her psychology class and her and Noah seem to have a bit of chemistry.
I love the Romero reference. Audrey tells Noah that there is a 'Romero-thon.' I am a big Romero fan, love his zombie films, I even met him and London Film and Comic Con. He's really cool.
Flicking through Netflix I have noticed that all the episodes are named after horror movies. What a really cool addition. I love horror movies, so I wonder if there's reference to them all in the episodes? Hopefully season 2 does season 1 justice as season 1 was absolutely incredible.
Sunday, 13 November 2016
[Television] Scream - Season 1, Episode 10: "Revelations."
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Blimey, wow, what a season finale.
I think season 1 was absolutely brilliant. I went in with an open mind, I did not think that they could turn a slasher movie into a television series but here we are. One of the best shows I have seen in a while. I thought it was phenomenal. I was constantly left guessing who the killer was. I fell in love with the characters, I know their names and their stories as I have followed their journeys. I feel like I can connect to them. This is a sign of a truly well written script and brilliant directing. Loved it. I really did.
*Spoilers*
This episode continues straight from the dance and the ghostface appears on screen with the Sheriff. Noah has realised that the killer has stopped connection from all phones. Thus, the friends cannot get a hold of one another during this episode.
Emma and her mother proceed to find the Sheriff and a clue leads them to the tree behind their house. We find the Sheriff strung up and barely alive. He tries to mutter something to the pair but I couldn't really make out what he was saying. As Maggie tries to cut him loose, well, the "gut-wrenching" part happens and his innards just fall out everywhere... Poor Maggie tries to hold them in but there is seriously nothing she can do for him to come back from that. Piper appears at the scene and Emma tells her she cannot get hold of her friends, Audrey and Brooke, so she asks her to go and check on them. Of course, she does this.
Audrey and Brooke are (so far) fine at Brooke's house party and are bonding over mutual feelings of the current situation. Jake turns up to try and make Brooke jealous. After a little heated argument, Jake leaves Brooke on her own. During this, a drunk girl finds a dead guy in the pool house bathroom so the whole party splits and leaves. When Audrey goes to see what happened, the killer runs up to her and presumably knocks her out. Seth Branson turns up at Brooke's house telling her how he is not the killer. He says that the person in the mask lets him out and kills the officer. He states that he knew how looked so he fled and the only place he knew where to go was to Brooke's house. She locks him out and doesn't know whether or not to believe him. This is where the lights go off and the killer appears. We don't see any more of Seth Branson. Brook is then chased by the killer and locked in the freezer where she could either live or die. Luckily, Noah and Emma arrive at the party to check on her, find Jake, find Kieran who gets there because Emma apparently *did not* text him. Kieran gives Emma a gun, again. They find Brooke and set her free.
Noah goes outside and finds Audrey, she's hurt, but alive, and the group regather. I love this part. Brook asks for someone to call a doctor and Noah says they can't because of the phone situation. Brooke states that there is "a landline inside" to which Jake replies "A landline? What is this - 1996?" 1996 is when the original Scream film was released. Nice reference there. As Emma goes to the landline it starts ringing and the killer answers. The killer has Emma's mother and tells her to go alone - to the dock where Brandon James had been shot. Emma goes alone and finds her mother tied to a chair on the dock looking very bloodied.
The killer appears and we find out that it is indeed Piper that is the killer. Turns out she's Brandon and Maggie's daughter. Yes, like she says, it's "2015" and we shouldn't be sexist. To be fair, in Scream 2 it was Mrs Loomis that was the killer, and in Friday the 13th the original killer was Mrs Voorhees. So we know that women can kill. Anyway, she tells this whole story about how she got given away, her father branded a monster and how Emma got to live a perfect life. This affects her greatly, just like Scream 3, where Sydney's brother is the killer. Same sort of story I guess. Piper states how she is going to frame Seth Branson and she will walk away a hero. She gets a few slices at Emma and Maggie, but Audrey "saw Emma run into the woods" and followed her. She ends up shooting Piper, just like her father was shot. Here's another Scream reference - Piper comes back from the water and tries to stab the girls, Emma shoots her, Audrey says "nice shot " and Emma says "they always come back" - a common theme in the Scream franchise.
So this all makes sense, yes. But then they add these after shots of Audrey burning letters from Piper and burning the documents that were stolen a year before. Was she a partner to Piper? Did they do this all together? I guess this is what season 2 is for!
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