You have a character who explains the ‘rules’…

I don’t like slamming movies for being woke by I’m noticing certain patterns in the Scream series. It may just be a coincidence but it probably isn’t. That said, the black lesbian girl is a fine actor but she’s basically just a b or c level version of Randy. They should have written her a bit differently

Btw the scene where they are sitting around going through each possible suspect I groaned.. been there, done that

I love the Scream series but I hope 6 is the last one they make

Maybe that's something they're saving for 7? She'll include that in the speech. Then they'll subvert it by actually having the twins kill or be killed

honestly i was hoping that the FBI agent would do a damn profile on the serial killer at some point in time

wtf didn't she do BAU training?!

You’re 100% right on this. Hollywood has never been so embarrassingly formulaic as today, yet the writers choose to ignore the fact that their hyper-overcompensating political correctness is exactly what should be being lambasted in a modern Scream movie. Woke morons.

The whole satirical self-aware commentary aspect of Scream pretty much died with the death of Randy. It just becomes contrived and unrealistic with every similar character they've tried to add to the franchise. Randy worked because he was believable as a horror movie obsessed geek who can't quite distinguish between fantasy and reality. I can't believe the characters in this movie actually sat down to discuss the supposed rules of horror movies. Nobody in the early movies took that seriously except Randy. That's the problem with the franchise, they're way too limited by the formula and ticking off the Scream checklist. It's possible to be self-aware without being too literal.

Okay, I'm not denying there's a lot of wokeness everywhere and while I'm not generally bothered by it, yeah it can be annoying when it's just there for the sake of it. And there's no denying what else has been said here about there at least being a pattern.

However. To play devil's advocate. Gale and Kirby are white, as are Sidney, Mark, Martha, and they all still have active character shields. The lead was a white girl for four movies and no one said anything of a white power agenda (not saying there was one, but nothing wrong with letting Latins and blacks have a turn as the narrative shifts). In the first four, most non-white characters died. And very few non-whites in 1 and 4.

And in 5 and 6. Well it makes sense that Wes is white like his mom, and they're targeted for her past involvement. Makes sense Stu's nephew is white like him. I guess we can assume the Carpenter sisters favor their mother and the twins favor their father. Makes sense that Richie's family is white like him. So there are organic, built-in, in-story reasons for some of the whites on both sides to be of the race they are. And it's also nice to have a story where the people of color are just existing as people, and the story isn't about the tragedies and trials and tribulations they go through because of being their race. It's not *about* their race, so it's not about shoving race down our throats, they're just there as they are. Also Tony Revolori is of Guatemalen descent.

Also Mindy wasn't even in the hospital for a day, she was there for about the duration of the final battle. I think Danny says something like "Mindy's on her way they couldn't stop her." And she mentions she's on good medications. Plus I'm sure she's got adrenaline.

But yes, Chad especially surviving both times now is ridiculous.

But, even since the original, these movies have traditionally allowed for at least one surprise/ridiculous survival.

That said, if they manage to get the Core Four back for #7 somehow, I like them all fine enough, but they do need to truly change up the formula. Have Sam be the killer and/or die, and have at least one but preferably two of the others die.

Based post! Right in the money. The only two fully white people in the friend group were the killers ofc 🙄 This franchise has been ruined since Wes Craven died…