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