Scream: 10 Problems Season 2 Needs To Fix

For all their funny moments and self-referential gags, the Scream movies were dark and suspensful when necessary. Characters took what was happening around them seriously, they were deeply affected when people they knew died, and all these events felt like they really meant something.

In the TV series, nobody seems to give a crap that all of their friends are being killed, except in that it makes their life exciting. After Tyler and Nina are murdered, people treat the subject with less sensitivity than you would if you just saw the story on the news, let alone knew the people. When Riley dies, Noah is a little sad for like half an episode, and then he's just back to his jokey self. Emma for one episode seems messed up by Will's death, and then by the next week, it's like it never happened.

Really, these characters don't take any of this seriously enough considering they're high school kids who are watching their friends be murdered left and right. They approach the situation with all the gravitas of an episode of Scooby Doo. What exactly is the tone here? If the series was going for a goofy B-movie vibe, this would be fine, but that doesn't appear to be the case. They want the audience to care, and so the characters have to care too.