Scream (2015)
MTV | VH1 | MTV - Music Television | Release Date: June 30, 2015
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METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
10
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: Happily, Scream maintains a sense of humor, reinforced with snappy, self-aware pop culture dialogue. Read full review
75
NewsdayVerne GayJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: Scream is exactly what you'd expect. It may also be exactly what you want. Read full review
70
We Got This CoveredMitchel BroussardMay 31, 2016
Season 2 Review: Sporadically clever and requisitely gory - but still awkward and forced - more than ever, Scream the TV series will work wonders if you can just forget Scream the movie series ever happened. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: Whether Scream can overcome Noah's legitimate concerns about adapting a slasher movie for TV remains to be seen. But tonight's premiere gets the show off to a strong creative start. Read full review
70
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: Scream the TV series doesn’t have the cinematic flair that Craven brought to the original film, and that’s a bit disappointing, but right from the first scene there’s a unique energy to the piece. It doesn’t feel like a knock-off or a cheap tie-in. It’s a horror movie in weekly series form. Read full review
70
VarietyBrian LowryJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: 'Scream' leverages the initial murder to build suspense without much actually happening during the remainder of the hour, using a lot of dissonant strings instead of opened veins to set the mood. Yet the real trick will be teasing out the suspense as the number of viable suspects gradually dwindles, as well as making the audience see these characters as more than just chum. Read full review
70
The WrapDeborah DayJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: Luxe environments mixed with bitchy teen entitlement and karmic vengeance drive Scream beyond its slasher-exploitation film genesis to a stylish metaphor about a new generation’s excesses and mean-girl cruelty. Read full review
70
Kansas City StarSara SmithJun 25, 2015
Season 1 Review: The first hour of Scream is an efficient fright-delivery system wrapped inside a teen drama, but it’s meta-commentary that makes it worthwhile. That, and the pilot’s promise to spread out its jump scares more slowly and deliberately. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisJun 25, 2015
Season 1 Review: This reinvention is not a slasher tale at all but a drama that requires you to invest in its characters while forgetting that “somebody might die at every turn.” Read full review
65
Under The RadarZach HollwedelJul 1, 2015
Season 1 Review: Scream is a deferential adaptation well aware of its source material's strengths. It uses them to its advantage, fully embracing them for a result that, while never quite as salacious as the first film, is a more than worthy entry into Scream lore. Read full review
60
Yahoo TVKen TuckerJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: The result could easily have been a messy botch, but Scream is a little better than that. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: There are a few scares here, but while the “Scream” films kept audiences jumping, Scream the TV series risks putting viewers to sleep. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: At least in the pilot, this Scream seems set on calling back to its ’90s source and then ever-so-slightly tweaking expectation. Yet it never plays as anything more than copycat cleverness. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: For younger viewers just discovering irony and metafiction and possibly not acquainted with the screen originals, which have done them to death, this may seem fresh and fun. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonJun 25, 2015
Season 1 Review: Even for MTV’s young target audience, the characters in Scream are remarkably empty and bland. But this is a slasher show, after all. Read full review
50
Las Vegas WeeklyJosh BellJun 25, 2015
Season 1 Review: The plot may or may not come together in the end, but the execution, with unimpressive acting and bland dialogue, is unlikely to improve. Brand name aside, Scream is a generic thriller with more pretty faces than creative ideas. Read full review
42
Newark Star-LedgerVicki HymanJul 1, 2015
Season 1 Review: With MTV's Scream, anyone who has enjoyed the original is bound to be disappointed here. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: The writers try to copy the conceit of the original “Scream,” a horror movie built on droll horror-movie references. But the efforts are often clumsy, flagged with a wink-winking that deadens the gimmick. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJun 30, 2015
Season 1 Review: Scream ... isn’t completely awful. It’s just thoroughly mediocre, with a cast of actors who are generically pretty playing characters who are generic types. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJun 25, 2015
Season 1 Review: The new Scream feels too much like the old model, with significantly less star power and lacking any fresh narrative sizzle between the stalkings. [29 Jun - 12 Jul 2015, p.12]
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJun 26, 2015
Season 1 Review: The performances are bland, robotic and uninteresting--clearly these actors were recruited for their looks, rather than their acting chops. And most of the main cast white, which is inexcusable in this day and age and completely unrealistic. Read full review
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