‘Scream Queens’ is, without a doubt, a feminist show. This surprised even me, if I’m honest. Ryan Murphy’s ‘American Horror Story’ has certainly been a showcase of female characters over the last few years, even if the writing has let these fine characters down repeatedly. So seeing a mostly female ‘Scream Queens’ cast was pretty exciting, even just from a representation perspective. There aren’t too many (network) shows that focus largely on a group of female characters, so this push for a female-heavy cast was ‘Scream Queens’ first feminist win for me.

The cast also...

Spoilers for 1x12 'Dorkus'


As u may know, Ryan Murphy has zei that one of his main inspirations for the toon was a particularly nasty emai penned (or typed, rather) door a Sorority board member and sent to her sorority sisters in 2013. The emai went public and people were pretty horrified. Here are a few links, just in case u want to know a little meer about the emai and its influence on the show:
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Some (perhaps all) of these linken take a particular stance about the sorority letter, labelling the auteur as ‘deranged’. It is tough to find reports of the incident that...