TV Review: Scream The Series (Season 1, Episode 6)

Last Updated on July 22, 2021

EPISODE: BETRAYED

THE DISH: When Audrey is taken in by the police for questioning as a prime suspect, Emma seemingly has one less person she can trust. Who's goddamn guilty?!

WARNING: MINOR TO MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS EPISODE YET, STOP READING HERE!

THE DICE-UP: After last week's midway poll of Scream The Series made amends for its dearth blood with a juicy helping of paranoid suspicion, the aptly dubbed 6th episode – "Betrayed" – did a nice job of ramping up the mayhem on both fronts. Well, that is, after a rather cruel and taunting nightmare of Emma murdering her own self in Brandon James' home left us with a pair of blue-balls to open up the episode. How dare they! Before that we picked up where last week stranded us, as Emma went through with doing the naughty with Mr. Cool himself, Kieran. But back at school, shit gets awfully tangled when the new sheriff in town, Detective Brock, sicks the coppers on Audrey for prime suspect interrogation. Turns out her hair and DNA fibers were found at Rachel's suicide scene. Worse yet, the same was found inside the Brandon James mask Audrey lifted from the sick hospital scene a few weeks back. But come on, could it really be Audrey?

Well, Brock gets aggressive with the questioning, even going so far as to potentially pin Nina and Tyler's death on Audrey. She gets enough to permit a search warrant for Audrey's house, hoping to find incriminating video evidence of the night Nina was murdered. But in an oddly granted favor, Emma and Noah do Audrey a solid by obstructing justice or tampering with evidence when they break into her house and pilfer the SD card locked in her dresser drawer. But why? Why would Emma and Noah help, and what the hell is on the card in the first place? Audrey told the two to destroy the card without seeing the video, which they are inclined to obey at first. That is, until Emma is called in for her own line of questioning by Brock, who lays on quite a thick guilt trip over pleading the 5th.

But when Emma and Noah do watch the vid, we see that yes, Audrey verbally threatened to take matters in her own hands in regards to Nina. Hardly means she's a killer though, in fact this all seems quite obvious that Audrey is being set up by someone. Then, in an oddly cyclical turn, Emma's mom finally unbears her soul regarding Brandon James, even taking her daughter to see where the so-called madman grew up…the same house from the opening nightmare scene. Mama Maggie reveals that she should have stuck up for Bran, as she calls him, that like Emma with Audrey, knew that he wasn't a true killer. She exhorts Emma to stick up for Audrey the way she failed to for Bran 20 years ago. And like a good girl, she listens and gets her old pal off the hook. For now!

Meanwhile, in the B-story, Mr. Branson's suspicion has seemed to have waned a bit, as Noah now thinks he might be either framed or blackmailed into installing the webcam malware. Who the hell knows. Brooke and Jake keep their bond alive, investigating daddy's icebox for her mom's dead corpse. Nothing doing. Will, on the other hand, is starting to shack up a bit with Piper the reporter chick, who I'm starting to form by own suspicions about. She seems too extraneous, too unneeded. This was exemplified in the finale, where poor old Will caught the killer's thirsty blade after coming clean to Brooke's dad about the blackmail. Struck and torn from ab to groin, then gorily hauled off to bleed out somewhere in a dingy garage. Piper left struck to the ground, but weakly so, as to ensure full recovery. I tell ya, something about her really stinks.

All in all, "Betrayed" succeeded in rerailing Scream back on the grisly slasher track it belongs on. After a paltry and bloodless episode last week, I have to give the show props for not only dishing the requisite amount of blood, but also continuing to stoke the irons of suspicion among the entire cast. Now, I felt strongly, and still do, that Audrey was never going to be the killer, but then again, if it were her and Noah doing it all, that'd be pretty badass. I just can't see them killing both of their girlfriends just to get to Emma. Talk about overkill! Still, with only four weeks left, anything is possible at this point. Goddamn we're gonna have some f**cking fun over the next month fiiguring who's tucking the blade. Take a peek below, looks like man-hands to me!

KILL OF THE WEEK: While we can't be 100% certain, the only kill this week was that of Will. Poor dude got ripped int he ab with the trademark hunting knife, then dragged off to bleed out somewhere unknown. Guess we'll see next week if he survived the cut. Doubt it!

BLOOD & GORE:

• A knife stab to the thigh, requisite blood drippings.
• A vicious knife joust to the abdomen, gruesome viscera spilled.

WTF CHARACTER MOMENT: I question Emma's morality in this episode. First, she committed a serious offence by covering up for Audrey. She broke into a home, stole property, withheld evidence, then flat out lied to detective Brock at the end. What obscene gestures for such a pristine girl!