Scream: 10 Problems Season 2 Needs To Fix

10. More Deaths

In the pilot of Scream, Noah said that you can’t make a slasher movie as a TV show, primarily because slashers are all based on body counts, and that’s not something you can emulate in a series that lasts for many seasons. At the time, viewers assumed the writers were including this meta commentary so they could go on to prove Noah wrong.

They really didn't. A lot of the first season was rather boring for the simple reason that barely anybody actually died. Across 10 hours of slasher content, there were only five deaths of named characters, including the two in the first five minutes of the pilot (and not counting the killer herself). Only two of the five were characters that were very significant, and in four episodes of the season, there are no deaths at all. Noah lays out in the pilot that the show will flesh out all these teenagers so that when they're killed, it hurts. Very few of them actually are killed, though. So much for that.

Had the showrunners approached this as a miniseries or anthology, they probably would have been more willing to kill off characters, but they clearly were setting things up for a long series, resulting in something that doesn’t feel like a slasher at all. You can’t call yourself a slasher if barely anybody gets slashed.