Damn I hate this show yet I continue to watch it. It's not even funny nor is it thought provoking. I mean, if your a rich single parent family where Mom barely has to work and can jet set around to fabricate drama then maybe you can connect. I dunno.
Scream tries to rescue all that suspense from the golden age teen horror movies, but fails miserably, with a super predictable script that in the first episodes scrubs in the face the identity of the killer (indirectly), soon after you already know who Is the Serial Killer series still tries to create a whole mystery between the characters (this you already knowing who the killer is). Taking the (friendly) relationship between Audrey and Noah, the rest of the characters do not have a good chemistry, the relationship between them is painless, as are the dialogues and performances (which are worse than Kristen Stewart's in that movie you already Knows), and to complete, all the characters are underdeveloped and linear, without even a shallow depth, not to mention that they are super stereotyped, like: Emma is the exemplary girl, Audrey the lesbian rebel, Noah is the nerd knows everything, Kieran Is the heartthrob, Brooke is the bitch and Gustavo is the class asshole! Spare me, the series is so clichéd and predictable and with such a disappointing ending it leaves Lost in the slipper!
Put this off for a while to see what the reaction would be, it's ... pretty much what it says 'on the tin'. romcom vignettes, based on miscommunication drama and odd expectations, etc. highschool drama. Technically well produced, the art style, comedy and action flow is also exceptional. Characters are, strong typed initially, so you get to unravel a few of them, but they're all tinged with melancholy and confusion, which makes them semi realistic as teenagers.
The drama elements are, most likely from people's own personal stories with a touch of dramatic license, combined with just fantastic recreations/rumour/narratives to avoid embarrassing the writers, i.e. they're just different enough from cringe-y to be sugary reimagined versions, i.e. what if my crush said Y instead of walking away or ignoring me, etc. In a writing sense, they could "milk" romcom tropes for decades because they never have to make the characters real for more than 5 minutes or give them lives to live. They also don't focus on the erotic or adult too often, which is, arguably where the show will fall down for some viewers too, as they want the entire clutch of romantic angles in a big glorious 12 minute episode "basket".
And, there's options to thread /weave in standard characters later on that have longer lives, or returning roles or more interesting lives., i.e. mis-directed crushes, gay characters, fast/slow mismatches, age differences, uncomfortable sex or nudity, the third/fourth/fifth wheel, etc that Koi to Uso (love and lies), or more directly, Kuzu no Honkai (Scum's Wish) plays so heavily on. I think fans of the anime romcom setting will probably either adore or hate this format, or tolerate it, because either they want to be the voyeur, or enjoy the schadenfraude, the failed romance, yearning, or crushed hopes. there's probably a very large audience for that as well, the "tsun" aspect.
i wouldn't say it's low brow, or high brow drama, it's like relationship candy. for 3 to 6 minutes, you get a short, driven fantasy that's supposed to capture your feelings, then it switches to another couple. Nothing too complicated, nothing too demure, just candy for the drama itch that the audience wants to say no to, but just one more, and another, and another.
In this sense, you can binge watch an entire series of shorts like this for days on end, but not feel like anything has happened either. Some of the "flavours" in the relationship are significantly forced into being, but overall, like an assortment of candy in a grab bag, the sour and the sweet, the bitter and the bland mix well, and you'll keep on devouring more and more to see what's next.
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