With Halloween just around the corner, you’re probably being inundated with monsters, gore and everything else typical of the horror genre.
It’s the perfect season to get into “Scream Queens,” the latest series from the creators of primetime juggernauts “Glee” and “American Horror Story.” Despite blood and murder aplenty, the horror-comedy anthology lightens things up by combining terror and violent slayings with humor in an over-the-top parody of the genre — while serving up a mystery to boot. “Scream Queens” premiered last month and a new episode airs Tuesday, Oct. 20, on Fox.
The series opens with a Kappa Kappa Tau sorority party in 1995. In an “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” situation, one of the sisters is discovered in the tub, covered in blood, with her new baby — “I thought it was the freshman 15,” she wails. Her callous sisters abandon her to go dance to TLC’s “Waterfalls,” and she succumbs to blood loss. Tragic.
Twenty years later, Wallace University’s Kappa Kappa Tau is still going strong, and is currently lorded over by the rich, beautiful and impeccably dressed Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts, “We’re the Millers,” 2013), a.k.a. Chanel No. 1, who’s every bit as nasty and heartless as her ‘90s predecessors. To her horror and disgust, the school’s new dean, Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis, “Halloween,” 1978), is declaring the highly exclusive sorority open to the unwashed masses — that is, anybody who wants to join, no matter how undesirable they may seem to Chanel and her ilk.
As if that isn’t bad enough, on the 20th anniversary of the 1995 death, terrible things start to happen again. A devil-masked killer is targeting Kappa Kappa Tau, and the bodies start to pile up not long into the first episode.
The show’s feel is a blend of “Scream” (1996) and “Mean Girls” (2004), or, as co-creator Ryan Murphy put it in ‘80s terms, “Heathers” (1988) meets “Friday the 13th”(1980).
“[Co-creators] Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] and I, all three of us, were always obsessed with the ‘80s/early ‘90s slasher genre that was always about young people and always about coming of age,” he said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
Like the Heathers, Chanel and her posse all have the same name.
Ariana Grande (“Victorious”) plays doe-eyed Chanel No. 2, newcomer Billie Lourd plays earmuffwearing Chanel No. 3, and Abigail Breslin (“Little Miss Sunshine,” 2006) plays kowtowing Chanel No. 5. Chanel No. 4 is conspicuously absent.
The Chanels aren’t the only ones being targeted by the Red
Devil; the sorority’s batch of strange and quirky pledges aren’t safe either. Far from endearing us to these misfits’ quirks à la “Glee,” the show makes most of them pretty irritating so that, in their own way, they’re not really preferable to the vicious Chanels — presumably so that we’re not too distressed when one of them is de-
capitated by a lawnmower, which adds to the first episode’s body count.
If the show sounds violent — and it is, at times — the blood and gore are toned down by the funny, clever script and sheer outrageousness of the over-the-top attacks. And the screaming. There’s a lot of screaming. A LOT. Falchuk discussed the comedy/horror balance in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter:
“The way you find the balance is understanding that, when you’re missing some ingredients, certain ingredients are super strong, and the flavor is so strong that if you use too much, it ruins the whole soup. Horror is something that is a really strong flavor, so just little drops of it is the best recipe.”
The actors haven’t been told who the killer is or if and when they themselves will be offed, so really, they’re just as in the dark about their characters’ fates as the audience is.
“We don’t want to tell the actors because it’s more fun if they don’t know, because then they all think that either they’re the killer
or that they could be killed,” said Falchuk. “Everyone is a suspect — and they should be. Every one of those characters absolutely could be the killer. It’s designed that way. Anyone could do it.”
According to Falchuk, only five people know the identity of the killer: the three co-creators and two assistants. Every episode will have at least one death, as well as a new clue as to who the Red Devil really is. His or her identity won’t be revealed until the final episode.
Unlike “American Horror Story,” which fully reboots every season with a different cast of characters, “Scream Queens” isn’t a true anthology, though it’s listed as such. Of course, with so many corpses by season’s end, the next season will require an awful lot of new characters. The survivors, however, will still be present.
“In horror movies, particularly in that era [the ‘80s and ‘90s], there was always the last girl, the final girl,” Murphy told EW. “So we’re playing with that. Whoever survives — and there will be people who will survive — they will go on next season to a new location and a new terror.”
ACROSS
1 “Doll _ __” (Comedy on HBO starring the British actress at 3 Down ...NOTE: There is a symbol in the answer)
4 Oscar-winner Sally
9 Mr. Chaney Jr.
12 Beatles jacket style
13 Finnish architect Mr. Aalto (b.1898d.1976)
14 “__ _ Believer” by
The Monkees
15 Bungle
16 NBC drama series on which the central character has mysterious tattoos
18 Asphalt
20 Bit on CBS’ “The Late Late Show with James Corden” where the host drives through the streets with a celebrity singer in
the passenger seat, ‘__ Karaoke’
21 __ ballerina
23 __ _ bow (Gift wrapping step)
24 Like a not-toosmooth smoothie
25 Seize
29 Sport-__ (All-purpose vehicle)
30 “Rubber Ball” by Bobby __
31 Shakespeare’s The Taming of the __
34 Make a house
36 Hockey game venue
39 “__ Warning”: Aria in Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold
40 As per 16 Across...
Anonymous name of Jaimie Alexander’s tattooed character:
2 wds.
43 Wedding announcement word
44 Brainy series on CBS on which Bradley Cooper has
a recurring role
46 Immediately
49 Fruity drink
50 Huey Lewis & The News song: “__ __ Be Square”
51 Org. on Showtime’s “Homeland”
52 Candle material
53 __ William Scott (Movie actor)
54 Ron who played the title character on ‘60s series “Tarzan”
DOWN
1 “Roger _ __” (Michael Moore documentary of 1989 ...NOTE: There is a symbol in the answer)
2 Corn unit
3 Actress, Emily __
4 Nanette of “One Day at a Time”
5 “__ Fly Away” (‘90s drama)
6 Force out
7 Island of Hawaii
8 HLN program sharing the name of its host:
2 wds.
9 Cosmetic surgery procedure, commonly
10 Herman Melville tale
11 ‘N’ of NFL [abbr.]
17 Fight
19 Electric guitar need
21 Asset
22 Ms. Buzzi of
“Laugh-In”
26 Material collected from a crime scene
27 Actress Ms. Ward
28 Knight and Danson
32 “Able was I __ _ saw Elba.”
33 Some carpentry measurements
34 1979 to 1986 sitcom starring Robert Guillaume
35 ‘Depart’ suffix
37 “It’s true, I swear!”: 2 wds.
38 __ _ close eye on (Monitor)
40 Nickname of the actress who stars in ‘Hunger Games’ movies
41 Verdi opera
42 Taos, _. __.
45 Bus or train, e.g.
47 Squeaky door fixer 48 Manner Solution on page 10
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GOLF Golf Central (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR Whelen Series (1:00)
SYFY WWE Smackdown! (2:00)
TBS MLB Baseball National League Championship Series. (Live) (3:30)
7:25 p.m. (7) KCCO NFL Football Sea. at S.F. (Live) (2:50)
7:30 p.m. GOLF PGA Golf Round 1 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. (3:00)
8:00 p.m. ESPN NCAA Football Cal. at UCLA (Live) (3:00)
NBCSN Nitro Circus (1:00)
9:00 p.m. ESPN2 ESPN The Magazine (1:00)
FSN NHL Hockey Clb. at Min. (2:00)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 2 Taiwan Championship. (4:00)
11:30 a.m. NBCSN Off the Grid (0:30)
Noon (9) KAWE Sit and Be Fit (0:30)
ESPN SportsCenter (0:30)
ESPN2 First Take (2:00)
NBCSN NASCAR K&N Pro Series (1:00)
12:30 p.m. ESPN Outside the Lines (Live) (0:30)
1:00 p.m. ESPN College Football Live (Live) (0:30)
FSN John Gillespie’s Waters & Woods (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Sprint Cup Series Practice CampingWorld.com 500. (Live) (2:30)
1:30 p.m. ESPN NFL Insiders (Live) (1:00)
ESPN2 Highly Questionable (0:30)
FSN Minnesota Traveler (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR America (Live) (0:30)
5:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:30)
ESPN2 Around the Horn (0:30)
FSN UEFA Europa League Highlights (1:00)
NBCSN NASCAR America (0:30)
5:30 p.m. ESPN2 Pardon the Interruption (0:30)
NBCSN NFL Turning Point (0:30)
6:00 p.m. ESPN2 H.S. Football Paramus Catholic vs. IMG Academy (Live) (3:00)
FSN Three Wide Life (0:30)
NBCSN NCAA Football Yale at Penn. St. (Live) (3:30)
6:30 p.m. ESPN College Football Countdown (Live) (0:30)
FSN Minnesota Timberwolves: Track the Pack 2015-16 (0:30)
7:00 p.m. ESPN NCAA Football Mem. at Tuls. (Live) (3:00)
FSN NBA Basketball Pre-season. Mil. at Min. (Live) (2:30)
GOLF Golf Central (0:30)
7:30 p.m. (9) KAWE NCAA Hockey Minn.St. at Bem. (Live) (2:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 2 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. (3:00)
8:00 p.m. SPIKE Bellator MMA (2:15)
9:00 p.m. ESPN2 SportsCenter (0:30)
9:30 p.m. (15) KVRR KVRR Sports Extra (0:30)
ESPN2 NCAA Football Utah St. at SD St. (Live) (3:00)
FSN Wolves Weekly (0:30)
NBCSN NFL Turning Point (0:30)
SHOW Boxing Rob Brant vs. Harmonito Dela Torre (3:00)
Saturday, Oct. 24
9:00 a.m. FSN John Gillespie’s Waters & Woods (0:30)
GOLF Morning Drive (Live) (2:00)
NBCSN USA EPL Soccer (Live) (2:00)
HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (1:00)
TBS MLB Playoff Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
2:30 p.m. (5) KSTP (7) KCCO ESPN ESPN2 NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)
FSN Vikings: Beyond the Gridiron (0:30)
TBS MLB Baseball National League Championship Series. (Live) (3:30)
3:00 p.m. FSN #VikingsConnected (0:30)
GOLF Golf Central Pre-game (Live) (1:00)
NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Sprint Cup Series Qualifying CampingWorld. com 500. (Live) (2:00)
3:30 p.m. FSN Wolves Weekly (0:30)
4:00 p.m. (11) KARE ISU Figure Skating Skate America. (1:00)
FSN Becoming Wild (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. (Live) (3:00)
4:30 p.m. FSN Wild Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
4:45 p.m. SHOW Boxing Kell Brook vs. Diego Chaves Showtime International. (1:45)
5:00 p.m. FSN NHL Hockey Ana. at Min. (Live) (2:30)
NBCSN Off the Grid (0:30)
5:30 p.m. (5) KSTP College Football Countdown (Live) (0:30)
ESPN ESPN2 College Football Scoreboard (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN NCAA Hockey Mn.D vs. N.D. (Live) (2:30)
6:00 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR FOX Pre-game Show (Live) (0:30)
ESPN ESPN2 NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)
TBS MLB Postseason Show (0:30)
6:30 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR NCAA Football (Live) (3:30)
SHOW A Season With Notre Dame Football (0:30)
7:00 p.m. (5) KSTP Saturday Night Football Pre-game Show (Live) (0:07) (9) KAWE NCAA Hockey (2:30)
GOLF Golf Central (0:30)
NBCSN Nitro Circus (1:00)
TNT NBA Basketball Pre-season. G.S. vs. L.A. L. (Live) (2:30)
9:30 p.m. FSN Wild Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
10:00 p.m.
FSN Midwest Outdoors Magazine (0:30)
2:00 p.m. ESPN2 His & Hers (1:00)
FSN Outdoor Bound TV With Kurt Walbeck (0:30)
2:30 p.m. ESPN NFL Live (Live) (1:00)
FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30)
3:00 p.m. ESPN2 SportsNation (Live) (1:00)
FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
GOLF Golf Central Pre-game (Live) (1:00)
3:30 p.m. ESPN Highly Questionable (0:30)
FSN Rooster Tales (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Sprint Cup Series Final Practice CampingWorld. com 500. (Live) (1:00)
4:00 p.m. ESPN Around the Horn (0:30)
ESPN2 First Take Re-Take (0:30)
FSN Lindy Fish Ed. (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 2 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. (Live) (3:00)
HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (1:00)
4:30 p.m. ESPN Pardon the Interruption (0:30)
9:30 a.m. FSN Midwest Outdoors Magazine (0:30)
10:30 a.m. FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30)
11:00 a.m. (5) KSTP (23) WUCW
ESPN ESPN2 FSN NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 3 Taiwan Championship. (4:00)
NBCSN Premier League Live Bridge (Live) (0:30)
11:30 a.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR
NASCAR Pre-Race (Live) (0:30)
(11) KARE EPL Soccer Arsen. at Evert. (Live) (2:00)
NBCSN F1 Auto Racing Qualifying United States Grand Prix. (Live) (3:30)
Noon (9) KMSP (15) KVRR NASCAR Truck Racing Camping World Series Fred’s 250. (Live) (2:30)
1:30 p.m. (11) KARE Rugby Semifinal World Cup. (2:30)
2:00 p.m. (5) KSTP College Football Countdown (Live) (0:30)
(7) KCCO College Football Today (Live) (0:30)
ESPN ESPN2 College Football Scoreboard (Live) (0:30)
7:05 p.m. (5) KSTP NCAA Football (Live) (3:15)
7:30 p.m. FSN Wild Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. (3:00)
8:00 p.m. FSN NCAA Hockey N.East. vs. Min. (Live) (2:30)
NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Sprint Cup Series Qualifying CampingWorld. com 500. (2:00)
SHOW Boxing Kell Brook vs. Diego Chaves Showtime International. (1:30)
8:30 p.m. HBO Boxing Terence Crawford vs. Jean Pascal WCB. (2:45)
9:00 p.m. ESPN ESPN2 College Football Scoreboard (Live) (0:30)
9:15 p.m. ESPN2 NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)
9:30 p.m. ESPN NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)
SHOW A Season With Notre Dame Football (0:30)
10:00 p.m. (29) WFTC Vikings Connected (0:30)
NBCSN Premier League Match of the Day (2:00)
Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Sports Oct 18, 2015 to Oct 24, 2015
They said it was impossible. They said it couldn’t be done. But they weren’t expecting the combined star power of Ted Allen and Robert Irvine. OK, so that may be making things seem way more dramatic than they actually are, but with a name like “Chopped: Impossible,” I’d say it’s darn near impossible to not treat this like a Tom Cruise action movie. The special “Chopped” series — one of two premiering this month — premieres Thursday, Oct. 22, on Food Network.
“Chopped,” of course, is the never-ending hit that’s the backbone of Food Network’s cooking competitions. Four chefs are given the nighimpossible mission of preparing restaurant-quality dishes in a woefully tiny amount of time using a basket of mystery ingredients that don’t often work well together.
“Restaurant: Impossible,” on the other hand, features Robert Irvine (who always looks like he’s on the brink of bursting out of his shirt) going into failing restaurants and performing the impossible — namely, yelling at people until they run their business better.
Well, “Chopped: Impossible” isn’t in the restaurant improvement business, but nonetheless, chef Robert will be on hand with Ted Allen in
this very special “Chopped” series. He’ll be sitting in as a judge for what might seem at first blush to be a normal episode of “Chopped” — until the competitors open up their baskets of ingredients.
Food Network is describing the baskets as “mind-blowingly impossible,” which, considering some of the bizarre ingredients that have been in the baskets in the past, does not bode well for the contestants.
Cooking edible food with the most far-out ingredients that “Chopped’s” producers can find — it’s a tough mission, but is it impossible?
Of course, since this is an “impossible” mission, there has to be another twist. As is usual for “Chopped,” the competitors cook over three grueling rounds until one is declared the winner, and that lucky chef gets to take home $15,000.
This time, though, there’s a fourth round. In this wild-card round, the winner faces off against Irvine himself with the toughest basket yet. If the champion can manage to beat Mister Impossible himself, he or she will pocket an extra $25,000.
“Chopped” is already legendary among chefs for being a grueling competition, but “Chopped: Impossible” sounds, well, impossible. The special tournament premieres Thursday, Oct. 22, on Food Network.
Sunday, Oct. 18
Noon TRAV Bizarre Foods
1:00 p.m. (9) KAWE Jacques Pepin: Heart and Soul
TRAV Food Paradise
1:30 p.m. (9) KAWE Barbecue University With Steven Raichlen
2:00 p.m. (8) WDSE Around the Farm Table
TRAV Food Paradise
2:30 p.m. (8) WDSE The Mind of a Chef (N)
3:00 p.m. (8) WDSE A Chef’s Life (N)
TRAV Food Paradise
4:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise
4:30 p.m. (9) KAWE Food Forward
6:00 p.m. (2) KTCA (8) WDSE The Great British Baking Show (N)
11:00 p.m. (8) WDSE The Great British Baking Show
Monday, Oct. 19
Noon TRAV Bizarre Foods America
p.m. (11) KARE The Rachael Ray Show TRAV Bizarre Foods America