Grantland September 18, 2015 There’s enough to like (or at least tolerate) to recommend it.
Variety September 15, 2015 For anyone who watched Glee wondering what it would be like to see the Cheerios get skewered, this is probably for you.
Detroit News September 18, 2015 It’s an odd mash-up that leaves little room for real connection to the characters, having faith instead in laughs and blood. Then again, laug...
AV Club September 22, 2015 Like so much of the fuel dumped into the social media furnace, Queens is instantly forgettable.
Vulture September 22, 2015 Scream Queens' visual details alone elevate it beyond just about every other series premiere this week. Even if the party ends badly, at least ther...
Boston Globe September 22, 2015 he humor is lively for a while, with lots of pop cultural wit, clever insults, and showy guest stars… before it all becomes pretty tiresome.
Newark Star-Ledger September 23, 2015 It’s relatively engaging and slickly produced, with effective visuals showcasing Eddie’s new talents, but the side effect of this show...
USA Today September 21, 2015 Yet despite all its flaws, vulgarities… and for all the justifiable fear that, like many shows from this team, it will go screaming off the quality...
New York Times September 22, 2015 The referential humor of Scream Queens tends to be better on the Halloween side of the equation than on the Heathers side, and some of its sendups...
Observer September 21, 2016 The season premiere still feels hopeful, even if it is just a little bit. The writing, truly, does seem better. And John Stamos! That’s...
Scream Queens feels in almost every way like American Horror Story Lite, which is not so bad.
Autostraddle June 26, 2018 Maybe I’m a curmudgeonly old woman who can’t stand the flippant way these three male writers treat female identity politics.
Grantland September 22, 2015 The show finds its voice when it veers away from Mean Girls and indulges in the kind of irresistibly quotable, spitfire insults that you might find...
New York Post September 15, 2015 Now [Ryan Murphy] has trained his campy eye on a younger generation of gamines for "Scream Queens," a smart sendup of sororities.
Daily Telegraph October 27, 2015 Shiny, gory and whip-smart, Scream Queens thus attempted to pummel the viewer into submission with sheer, rictus-grinning relentlessness. And it wo...
It’s a fairly entertaining, but completely confusing, case of whiplash.
The Guardian September 22, 2015 This is as about as much fun as you can have sitting on your couch sober with your clothes on.
Hollywood Reporter September 17, 2015 Fortunately, while Scream Queens boasts overlapping AHS talent on both sides of the camera, the Fox series is lighter, livelier and favors comic gr...
Orlando Sentinel September 21, 2015 But Fox’s Scream Queens is a nasty, trashy hybrid of Glee and American Horror Story.
Ally McBeal meets the DC Comics universe in this surprisingly lighthearted (or so it seems) superhero drama.
SFGATE September 21, 2015 Scream Queens may get better, but its first two episodes are far too tame, especially coming from Ryan Murphy’s house of usually hilarious ho...
New York Daily News September 21, 2015 As in Glee or American Horror Story, Murphy delights in misdirection and abrupt shifts of tone, both of which he does well. The dialogue is snappy...
Globe and Mail September 21, 2015 The first two hours suggest brilliance.
Rolling Stone September 29, 2015 Thor’s Jaimie Alexander is likably vulnerable and earnest as Jane Doe, straining to figure out her past despite her amnesia. Yet the FBI agen...
Observer September 17, 2015 A new cast comes aboard, just as varied but no less impressive… The premiere episode is a thrill ride start to finish.
TheWrap September 22, 2015 What makes it work is Murphy’s renowned world-building.
Newsday September 22, 2015 The horror? It’s pretty much nothing you haven’t seen before.
TIME Magazine September 22, 2015 Ryan Murphy wants his shows to do it all, including stuff that’s never really worked for him.
Boston Globe September 21, 2015 The lighthearted script – complete with meta-conversations about what to name a female superhero – is welcome; too many of these sto...
Like AHS and Glee, it could become a mess, but the launch is fun.
Los Angeles Times September 22, 2015 Two things bear repeating: Curtis is glorious, and one hopes the show will quickly rise to meet her. More important, Murphy, Falchuk and Brennan kn...
AV Club September 23, 2015 Really, Ryan Murphy productions have bled together more and more as the years go by, and Scream Queens feels like the pinnacle of that.
The Atlantic September 22, 2015 The best way to watch it is probably with a distraction-maybe while swiping through your phone-and then glancing up whenever someone on screen...
The plot isn’t even the best part. It’s the evocative paranoid world that creator/executive producer Frank Spotnitz has built.
