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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