MINORITY REPORT (FOX)

Based on the international blockbuster film by executive producer Steven Spielberg and the first of his films to be adapted for television, MINORITY REPORT follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen.

I didn’t have much of an opinion about MINORITY REPORT the TV show when I first read FOX was going ahead with it. I assumed it would be a pretty standard buddy cops in the future along the lines of the quickly cancelled show ALMOST HUMAN so I was pleasantly surprised to see that the TV version of MINORITY REPORT is taking a bit of a different approach to the buddy cops in the future stuff and I like what I saw.

SCREAM QUEENS (FOX)

Wallace University is rocked by a string of murders. Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority for pledges, is ruled with an iron fist (in a pink glove) by its Queen Bitch, CHANEL OBERLIN (Emma Roberts, “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” “Scream 4”). But when anti-Kappa DEAN MUNSCH (Jamie Lee Curtis, “Halloween,” “A Fish Called Wanda,” “True Lies”) decrees that sorority pledging must be open to all students, and not just the school’s silver-spooned elite, all hell is about to break loose, as a devil-clad killer begins wreaking havoc, claiming one victim, one episode at a time. Part black comedy, part slasher flick, SCREAM QUEENS is a modern take on the classic whodunit, in which every character has a motive for murder…or could easily be the next blood-soaked casualty.

I am always a guaranteed tune in for a dark Ryan Murphy show. I love his AMERICAN HORROR STORY and was a fan of NIP/TUCK and his short-lived show POPULAR is one of my all-time favorite guilty TV pleasures. So the idea of his bringing the slasher genre to TV is an easy sell for me and when you add in the G.O.A.T. Scream Queen, Jamie Lee Curtis to the mix then you couldn’t keep this show off my DVR. It doesn’t hurt that they put together a pretty snazzy trailer that delivers on humor without missing a beat as far as the horror goes.