History Series / ScreamTheTVSeries

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The killer reveals themself to Emma and Maggie in the season finale. It's Piper.]]

** Episode 2 mentioned Series/GameOfThrones, {{Carrie}}, Series/HowToGetAwayWithMurder, and {{Series/Scandal}}. The Lakewood kids seem to have broad taste in T.V.

** [[spoiler: Made worse by the apparent revelation that he killed his wife some time before the show started and has been lying to his daughter to keep his secret safe.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Will and Jake]] toward Nina, with candid bathroom footage to boot. [[spoiler: Following Nina's murder, Will insists Jake delete the tapes. Jake complies...allegedly.]]

* TwoPersonPoolParty: In season 2 premiere, Jake proposes to Brooke to have sex in the pool but she refuses and breaks up with him.
* WaifFu: During self-defence class Audrey is able to throw Will around with ease, even though he is twice her size.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Naturally. This time, Ghostface's mask is modelled after the face of Brandon James.

** Dreams are a big theme in Season 2, as Emma begins experiencing repressed childhiod memories through her nightmares, and begins hallucinating again.

** Brooke, who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNc9lzz4QPk the promos]] even refer to as "the sex object" in a horror/slasher story. She has repeatedly been shown in her underwear
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Emma gets hit hard with this in episode 2 when she visits her mom at the job to give her some coffee, and walks in to find her mom examining [[spoiler: Rachel]]'s body. It hits Emma quite hard especially because at this point she doesn't know [[spoiler: Rachel]] was murdered and she believes [[spoiler: Rachel]]'s death is in big part her fault for [[spoiler: not stopping Nina from filming Rachel and Audrey.]]

** As if to keep pushing this, in Episode 7 [[spoiler: Emma accidentally trips the RubeGoldbergDevice Will is strapped to, causing him to die right in front of her]].
** Happens in the season finale, though not to Emma this time: [[spoiler:Rather, her mother, Maggie, has this reaction when she attempts to untie Sheriff Hudson, which opens the wound the killer had covered up, killing him instantly.]]

** Brooke is lured to the garage of her home and then confronted by Will in Episode 1. This is a direct reference to the death of [[spoiler:Tatum Riley at Billy Loomis' hands]] in the original.

* NightmareSequence: Episode 6 [[spoiler: starts with Emma and Kieran, fresh off their romantic entanglement at the end of the previous episode, going to explore the Brandon James house. Kieran vanishes and Ghostface calls Emma, taunting her. Emma tries to escape but is cornered by Ghostface who stabs her twice. Dying, Emma removes the mask only to see that [[TomatoInTheMirror Ghostface was her all along]].]] She promptly wakes up.

* ObliviousJanitorCut: In Episode 3, [[spoiler: Riley crawls onto the skylight of the police station, bleeding to death from a gash down her leg. She tries to get the janitor's attention, but he [[HeadphonesEqualIsolation can't hear her over his music]]]].

** Episode 4 explores this further, showing that Brooke comes to resent having parents that, frankly, have other things to do.
** Episode 5 takes a darker turn, suggesting that [[spoiler: Brooke's mother was DeadAllAlong, at her father's hand no less]].
** Episode 8 reveals that [[spoiler: Brooke's mother is alive and the dead guy was her drug pusher who OD'ed in the family home]].

* SanitySlippage: Episode 8 reveals that [[spoiler: Emma is developing insomnia after witnessing Will's death, and is experiencing a series of increasingly surreal hallucinations as a result]].

* AlternateContinuity: The show appears to be unrelated to the film series. The mask has also a different origin story.
* ApatheticCitizens: Most of Lakewood's teen populus reacts to Nina's death with mild indifference, dry humor, or as a legitimately good thing, seeing as she was an AssholeVictim after all.

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Emma and Piper.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Noah and Audrey are a duo of these.

* DelayedSeasons: The show takes place in October 2015, but was filmed in the summer. This results in lush, green foliage all around Lakewood, and a student body perennially dressed for spring break. (That said, the show ''was'' filmed, and possibly set, around Baton Rouge, Louisiana, an area that is genuinely like that in October. In most of the South, the chilly weather and fall foliage don't set in until November or even December, if they come at all.)

* TheGrotesque: Brandon James, whose facial deformities made him an outcast and required him to wear a mask. He eventually snapped and went on a rampage.

** Will's an even bigger one. Jake plays a role designed for comedic relief, whereas Will's just a douche and antagonizes almost every single character

* AbsenteeActor: Amadeus Serafini (Kieran) in Episode 4.

* AlphaBitch: Nina. Everything she does seems carefully calibrated for the viewer to not miss her when she bites it eight minutes into the pilot episode.

* [[SlasherMovie Slasher TV Show]]

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Emma and Piper.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Episode 6 reveals that [[spoiler: Maggie and Brandon James were neighbors and best friends growing up, explaining Brandon's infatuation with her]].
** To add to this, Episode 8 reveals that [[spoiler: Brandon and Maggie had comfort sex, resulting in a child that was born shortly after the murders happened]].

** The killer also keeps mementos from his victims: a necklace of Nina's, [[spoiler: an action figure of Rachael's, and Riley's keychain.]]

* DestroyTheEvidence: Audrey implores Emma to destroy the SD card from the night Nina died. The card, which features Audrey on a furious tirade about the BeautifulElite Nina represents, obviously makes Audrey look very guilty. [[spoiler: Audrey claims [[MoralityPet Rachael]] talked her out of doing anything rash, but of course she has no proof. Emma ends up giving the card back to Audrey by the end of the episode]].
** Emma also does this, in a way, when she [[spoiler: provides false alibi that gets Audrey off and the issue of Audrey's DNA inside the Brandon James mask is chalked up as cross contamination, which the show had shown that Audrey's DNA could not have gotten inside the mask. Whether Audrey's DNA was planted inside the mask or she's actually guilty has not yet been revealed.]]
** In the season finale, [[spoiler: Audrey burns several letters between her and Piper and documents stolen from the police station, hinting that she was involved with the murders.]]

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Brought up by Jake in episode 7 when spit-balling on the killer's identity. Jake brings up the possibility that the killer is a background character like the way they do on cop shows - someone who is tangentially connected to the victim who seems harmless and concerned about the murders. Noah is one such suspect which Jake believes fits this bill. [[spoiler: Right idea, wrong suspect.]]
* DueToTheDead: The Mayor leads a moment of silence for [[spoiler: Rachel]] and Nina before the school basketball game in Episode 2. That same episode shows a memorial has been set up on a fence near the school, completely with sappy, shallow mementos from Nina's friends.
** In Episode 5, the town holds a candlelit vigil for Nina, Tyler and [[spoiler: Riley]]. Emma is set to speak on behalf of her dead friends, but is unable to concentrate when she realizes [[ParanoiaFuel Ghostface is watching her]].

** [[spoiler: Piper was planning to make herself look like one after killing Emma and Maggie.]]

** Early in the series, Jake and Will have a discussion about collecting the money from Nina and Tyler's blackmail operation. The camera lingers on the tractor Will is piloting. [[spoiler: In Episode 7, Will is hooked up to a similar device and hacked to pieces]].

* {{Gorn}}: Episode 7 introduces some real splatter rather than just stab wounds as [[spoiler: Will is sawn in half by some kind of industrial wood cutter and it sprays all over Emma]].

* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler: In the season one finale, Sheriff Hudson is tied to a tree and when Maggie unties him, she pulls a piece of tape off of his stomach, opening a wound that causes his intestines to fall out.]]

** Happens in the season finale, though not to Emma this time: [[spoiler: Rather, her mother, Maggie, has this reaction when she attempts to untie Sheriff Hudson, which opens the wound the killer had covered up, killing him instantly.]]

->You can't do a slasher movie as a TV series. Think about it: Girl and her friend arrive at the dance, the camp, deserted town, whatever. Killer takes them out one-by-one. Ninety minutes later, the sun comes up and survivor girl sits in the ambulance watching her friends' bodies being wheeled past. Slasher movies burn bright and fast, TV needs to stretch things out. Y'know, by the time the first body is found, it's only a matter of time before the bloodbath commences.

* WaifFu: During self-defense class Audrey is able to throw Will around with ease, even though he is twice her size.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Naturally. This time, Ghostface's mask is modeled after the face of Brandon James.

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** At the school dance, Kieran and Emma dress in homage to PulpFiction, even aping the dance moves.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the pilot episode, Noah explains to Riley how slasher TV shows use the personal lives of its' characters to make you care about them so that it'll hurt when they get murdered. [[spoiler: Two episodes later, Riley get killed by Ghostface and Noah is very heartbroken about it.]]

* TooDumbToLive: As expected of a series based on Scream every character breaks all the rules for surviving in a horror movie. At the very least, when you know there is a killer on the loose, you don't go to a dark, isolated location based on a text message of a guy who has been missing for days or go play hooky in the middle of nowhere with a guy you barely know. That's not even GenreSavvy, it's just common sense.
** Emma, who keeps expecting this sociopathic, manipulative stalker who has killed several people to "play by the rules". [[spoiler: Especially in episode 7, where not only she runs to save Will blindly, but just stops as soon as she feels she's hit something, giving the machine enough time to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe rip Will in half]].]].
** By episode 9, with the exception of Ghostface him/herself (or themselves), Audrey, Noah and Piper, pretty much every single other character fits into this category, including main character Emma and just about every single authority figure in town.
** Brooke in the Season One finale. Note to anyone who may find themselves in a slasher movie situation one day: A small, enclosed box that can be turned into a freezing death trap just by plugging it in is a crappy choice of hiding places. If that's your only option, you might as well just try to fight the slasher and hope for the best.

* FosterKid: Kieran was one, up until his foster parents died in a car accident, forcing him to move to Lakewood to live with his biological father, the Sheriff.

* HopeSpot: Also in Episode 9: " The Dance". After Emma and Kieran rekindle their romance they share a dinner with their parents and things seem on their way to hunky-dory. Alas and of course, it is not to be.

* InMemoriam: The Season 1 finale is dedicated to Wes Craven, who died the week before it aired.

** More subtly, [[spoiler: Audrey has a picture of James pinned to her wall]], possibly hinting at a secret interest of her own.

* ScatterbrainedSenior: Casey James, [[spoiler: Brandon James' mother]] is like this. Emma assumes that [[spoiler: Branson is Brandon's son because she prompted Casey to tell her, thus leading Casey herself to believe it was true, before Piper figures out that Casey meant Kieran instead]].

* DumbBlonde: Brooke suggests TheCastleOfOtranto started the 'castle genre'. Then again, she might just be ObfuscatingStupidity to score some private 'study sessions' with Mr. Branson.

** Brooke in the Season One finale. Note to anyone who may find themselves in a slasher movie situation one day: A small, enclosed box that can be turned into a freezing death trap just by plugging it in is a crappy choice of hiding places. If that's your only option, you might as well just try to fight the slasher and hope for the best. While Brooke ''does'' live, this kind of stupidity would have been life-threatening nine times out of ten.

** Brooke in the Season One finale. Note to anyone who may find themselves in a slasher movie situation one day: A small, enclosed box that can be turned into a freezing death trap just by plugging it in is a crappy choice of hiding places. If that's your only option, you might as well just try to fight the slasher and hope for the best.

* HopeSpot: Also in Episode 9: " The DanceDance". After Emma and Kieran rekindle their romance they share a dinner with their parents and things seem on their way to hunky-dory. Alas and of course, it is not to be.

** Episode 2 introduces podcaster Piper Shay, this universe's answer to Gale Weathers, [[spoiler: and Roman from the third film.]]

** In episode 3, Piper Shay reveals that Emma's so far unseen father was a GenderFlip version, as she clearly calls him 'the only survivor of the Brandon James attacks'.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Piper[=/=]Ghostface is killed by a bullet to the head at the end of the Season One finale, but Noah, narrating a final episode of her podcast, notes that she herself was attacked by Ghostface. While he admits that it's entirely possible that she simply banged herself up to make herself look like a victim, he also points out that Will confirmed the attack and raises the question of who was wearing the mask that night.]] [[spoiler: The final scene implies that it was Audrey.]]