AVClub: Back in July, Ryan Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter that only four characters would make it out of Scream Queens’ first season alive, with a “huge amount” of the characters being killed off on a week-to-week basis. But even before this season finale, it was apparent that the Scream Queens that was promoted and the Scream Queens that exists were two completely different shows. I’ve said on a near weekly basis that Scream Queens’ inability to kill its darlings could be its greatest downfall. At this point, a savvy audience knows what they’re signing up for when it comes to the writing aspects of a Ryan Murphy production—with minor adjustment for the particular genre and tone, of course—but the core concept of Scream Queens lent itself to playing with the unexpected. With Murphy’s stable of actors and the show being another anthology series, the idea of mass deaths was actually something to look forward to, as it was obvious that the death of a character (and a particularly entertaining actor) wouldn’t prevent them from showing up in a future Murphy show or season. But for whatever reason, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan forgot to actually do the one thing they and the show’s slasher-anthology premise promised to do: slash characters.
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