MTV's 'Scream' Ep. 3 - Much Like 'One Tree Hill' & 'Gossip Girl' - Terrifies

Warning: May Contain Spoilers!

MTV's Scream TV series is picking up the pace when it comes to kills and playing with the horror genre on television. This week's Episode 3: "Wanna Play a Game?" is obviously showing us that the writers are having fun playing with our expectations of a horror movie and how we expect the same tropes to unfold in the form of a serial--no pun intended. A fair comparison with the original film is that this episode is comparable to the point right before Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is attacked in Scream (1996). Our lead female character, Emma (Willa Fitzgerald), is being continually harassed by the infamous voice on the other end of the phone. In fact, she is the only one directly being addressed by him when he's in "killer mode." To the others in Emma's group of friends, (Bex Taylor-Klaus, John Karna, Amadeus Serafini, Carlson Young, Brianne Tju and Tom Maden), he pretends to be other people (much like in Scream 3 when the killer used a voice changer box, which was of the lastest in technological advances in 1999) in order to lure them into dangerous situations where the audience is constantly guessing "will he or won't he kill this person? Is the person they're talking to real or is it the killer?"

What is so great about the show so far is that it not only teases us with our own expectations, but it makes technology an accomplice in all crimes committed. One would think in a day and age where numbers can be traced and unblocked, Scream really finds loopholes for these situations and makes technology and social media part of the problem. There is never a time during the show, which violence and horror elements aside is reminiscent of One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl, where you'd be thinking "this would never happen." The show is clever and the anticipation for the next episode is bubbling.

Visit MTV.com to see the first three full episodes to catch up! Check out episode 4's sneak peak here.