YMMV / Scream: Resurrection

• Broken Base: Fans of the first two seasons are conflicted whether or not it was a good idea for Resurrection to focus on a new set of characters since Season 2's introduction of a third killer wasn't resolved.
• Complete Monster: Beth is the seemingly savvy de facto leader of the Deadfast club and the true mastermind behind the new Ghostface killing spree. A self-proclaimed "killer wannabe" who fantasized about living a horror movie, Beth got her chance when she met Jamal, and learned about his half-brother's past and secrets. She manipulated Jamal to take the Ghostface mantle to terrorize her supposed friend and his half-brother, outwardly pretending to care about her new friends. As part of their brutal murder spree, Beth personally kills her boyfriend by forcibly overdosing him; has another friend burnt alive in a car; and kills her next boyfriend by sawing through his stomach and groin with a bone saw, watching him bleed out. When Jamal is nearly exposed, Beth has him kidnapped and mortally wounded to not leave loose ends, and when she finally reveals her true motives, she shoots and seemingly kills Marcus before chasing down and trying to kill Liv.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Amir is the most popular of the main cast because of how endearing he is, which made his death in episode 4 the most heartbreaking.
• Fanon: It has been so far accepted by fans that even though this season focuses on a different cast and characters and with a different story and setting, that this still takes place within the same universe as the first two seasons in the vein of American Horror Story.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • In this promotional picture, Beth is closer to the front while the rest of the cast, including Deion himself, are far away in the back. From a viewer's perspective, it makes no sense. But after watching the finale, and then looking at the picture through the perspective of Beth, it makes sense because this is how Beth sees herself and the rest of the cast. She's the "hero", while everyone in the back, including the real hero of the story and the final girl(s), are just Cannon Fodder to her.
  • There are repeated appearances of a Twix-style candy bar called "Twins"; one of Twix's commercials jokingly reveals that the reason for Twix having two separate candy bars is due to the founders of Twix (both brothers) having a fallout, thus leading them to have separate factories to create the individual left and right Twix bars, with each side claiming how each bar is different and better than the other. Thinking of the "left/right" Twix campaign helps to understand the symbolism behind the Brand X version in the show:
    • The "left/right" rivalry is started by an old family quarrel. The death of Deion's brother is the motive for the killings.
    • The punchline of the Twix campaign is that the two chocolate bars are the same, or at least so similar, you can't tell them apart. In the last episode, it's revealed that Deion and Marcus had switched costumes so Tommy wouldn't bother Marcus, so Deion ended up getting attacked by Hookman and died while hiding from him; Marcus was mistaken for Deion and decided to keep the ruse going out of guilt and to redeem himself for failing to save his brother.
    • Unrelated to the "left/right" campaign, but still involving the Twix bars, one package of Twix or Twins has two candy bars; most Scream-related media has more than one Ghostface. Including this one.
• Love to Hate: Even after The Reveal of Beth to be Ghostface, she still puts up an amusing Faux Affably Evil Perky Goth Deadpan Snarker demeanor even when pursuing her victim. Beth is also one of the few Ghostfaces to not be a complete mean-spirited Hate Sink despite the Complete Monster trope above nor a Large Ham.
• Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize: Why cast a high-profile non-actor like the rapper Tyga in a seemingly small part if you're not gonna make him one of the killers?
• Salvaged Story:
  • The MTV series changed the killer's mask to accommodate the Brandon James plot, but this became a subject of controversy with some viewers criticizing the Lakewood Slasher as an In Name Only version of Ghostface. Here, Resurrection reverts the killer's mask back to the movies' Father Death mask.
  • On a minor note, while Mike Vaughn was generally deemed an adequate voice actor for the MTV Ghostface, Resurrection reinstates Roger L. Jackson as Ghostface's voice to stay consistent with the films.
  • A few common criticisms of the MTV series were that the love triangles and other subplots slowed down the main story and that the Lakewood Slasher's body count was too low to compensate for such issues. In contrast, while Resurrection has a similar kill count to the prior MTV seasons, it has a lower episode total due to the faster pacing.
• The Scrappy: Liv, whose behavior throughout the season is widely seen as moronic at best and outright selfish and self-destructive at worst.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The majority of the hate for this season/ministries comes from the fans of the MTV series, who are upset that the show isn't going to continue the story from the previous two seasons and that the series would focus on a new set of characters.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The show has Hookman, a Candyman-expy played by Tony frickin' Todd himself, who ends up confronting the Icon of Halloween, Ghostface. Their "fight" lasts less than 5 minutes onscreen and Ghostface ends up curbstombing Hookman offscreen.
• Win Back the Crowd: Interest in Resurrection increased after the trailer advertised the return of Roger L. Jackson and the original Ghostface costume.

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