Scream Queens this week managed to be the funniest episode as well as the most nonsensical. “Chanel Pour Homme-icide” changes the formula a bit. Instead of the most recently cured patient being offed by the Green Meanie, it is two of the new Chanel’s.
Of course the killer did go after Chanel #5 and Denise Hemphill in the Halloween episode. Chamberlin Jackson was attacked but Zayday was bypassed completely.
In this episode Nurse Hoffel has taken over as the new Chanel Oberlin, she calls the two Chanel’s “idiot b*tches,” and we learn that she is addicted to Pethidine and she knows all about Dean Munsch’s cannibal induced disease.
Denise Hemphill is not dead, although initially Munsch wants to throw her in the swamp. (Which, incidentally, would have been brilliant for last season since Hemphill was uber annoying. This season? Not so much.) Since the FBI agent cannot be resuscitated the Dean puts her in a cryogenic chamber.
The disease of the week in this episode was Madonna Accent Syndrome, aka Foreign Accent Syndrome. (This syndrome, or illness, really exists by the way so kudos to the writers for this one…) A patient changes her accent every single time she speaks (Not a really symptom…) after a head injury.
Perhaps the funniest bit of the entire two seasons of Scream Queens has the staff suddenly suffering from the same symptoms as Hotchkiss. Dr. Holt, Dr. Cascade and Chanel #3 all start changing their accents each time they speak. All of them are classic “Hollywood” versions of foreign accents.
John Stamos’ character gets the line of the episode with his complaint:
“Damn it. My accent keeps changing. Now I sound like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.”
ZayDay recruits Chanel #5 to help track down the “baby in the belly,” #5 is annoyed that three new Chanel’s have been taken on board. She is especially upset that one of the newbies is a male.
Hester is also recruited. She gets the second funniest line of the episode as well:
“I’m a psychopath, a sociopath and I’m also allergic to gluten.”
After visiting the woman whose husband was dumped in the swamp, ZayDay believes that Chamberlin is the “baby in the belly.”
Ms. Hotchkiss is cured and the staff have settled into a faux British accent, and they decide to call Madonna. Mensch fires Hoffel who blackmails her way into staying at the hospital.
Amazingly, Hotchkiss is not murdered.
The Chanel’s throw a party and set up Chanel #8 to be killed by the Green Meanie. Twink, aka Chanel #9 messes up their plan by stepping in to get the gift meant for #8.
#8 comes up to tell the Chanel’s that #9 wanted the present so she came back to the party. They find #9 on a morgue drawer and he has been gutted. As most of the Chanel’s scream, Hester smiles.
Dean Munsch tells off the three original Chanel’s for not telling her about their plan. Chanel #3 manages to work the word “onerous” into the conversation. Munsch brings in three more Chanel’s into the hospital.
She also says that she will find Hester. The first new Chanel dies, the one with six fingers on one hand. The Green Meanie chops off the extra digit and when the new Chanel thanks the killer, she is then stabbed to death.
Dr. Cascade is the “baby in the belly.” And, he has lost his English upper-crust accent.
This last reveal could mean that Cascade is the Green Meanie, but considering the size of the killer he probably is a red herring. If we go by size alone, the killer looks more like Nurse Hoffel.
She is quite tall, especially in heels and she is a full figured woman as well. Chamberlin is also big enough to be the Green Meanie but he was attacked as well. (Although looking at last season, there could well be two Green Meanies…)
This episode of Scream Queens was definitely worth a giggle or two. Although it does fall back on the season one formula, i.e. we are at a loss here, so let’s have a party. It works, as it allows one new Chanel to be skewered.
It does appear that someone on the hospital’s staff called Madonna as both Chanel #3 and Dr. Cascade have lost their accents.
Scream Queens airs Tuesdays on FOX.
CAST:
- Jamie Lee Curtis – Dean Munsch
- Emma Roberts – Chanel Oberlin
- Abigail Breslin – Chanel #5
- Billie Lourd – Chanel #3
- Taylor Lautner – Dr. Cassidy Cascade
- John Stamos – Dr. Brock Holt
- James Earl – Chamberlain Jackson
- Kirstie Alley – Ingrid Hoffel
- Lea Michele – Hester Ulrich
- Keke Palmer – ZayDay Williams
- Niecy Nash – Denise Hemphill
Guest starring Mary Birdsong as Penelope Hotchkiss, Trilby Glover as Jane, Moira O’Neill as Chanel #9, Pablo Castelblanco as Tristan, aka Twink.
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