Scream Queens: Pilot

Thank goodness stuff like this can't happen in real life. This show is completely ridiculous,  but it's great and addictive, for now, at least.
The main setting is the house of the Kappa Kappa Tau and it begins in 1995 with the first murder mystery of the show. During a huge house party, a girl gives birth in a bathtub without realizing she was pregnant. Instead of getting her help right away, they continue to enjoy the party but when they come back, she is dead, having bled out. What happens to the baby? Does anyone actually know?
Fast forward to the present. Grace Gardner (Skyler Samuels) is starting college much to the chagrin of her overprotective father (Oliver Hudson, much nicer and more attractive than he ever was in Nashville). He doesn't want her to join the sorority but she feels that she must, in honor of her late mother.
Unfortunately, Chanel (Emma Roberts) is in charge and she is just plain nasty. She is rich and spoiled but also deeply lonely. she doesn't even name her posse, simply calling them Chanel #2 (Ariana Grande), Chanel #3 (Billie Lourd, daughter of none other than Carrie Fisher) and Chanel #5 (Abigail Breslin). She doesn't like non-pretty or non-white people.
The Dean of the college, Kathy (Jamie Lee Curtis) hates sororities but she probably has a horrible secret and the security on that campus is just plain awful, especially after the murders keep happening. Chanel #2 is not long for this world and then a deaf recruit's head is run over. This is only after Chanel murders the overweight cleaning lady whom she is beyond cruel to. The sisters hide the body only to have it disappear. Grace is horrified and even teams with the suspicious Pete (Diego Boneto) to expose the group for what they truly are. Pete's secret is that he is also the school mascot, which happens to be the red devil, so Grace doesn't trust him at the moment, fearing he is behind the killings and with those creepy looks on his face, he just might be.
The characters in this show are utterly ridiculous. Lea Michele is just plain odd, but effective as Hester who is obsessed with death and wears a neck brace. When Chanel calls her a sociopath, she takes it as a compliment. Keke Palmer steals scenes as Zayday, who always has something great to say, including how crazy her grandmother is. Glen Powell is Chanel's on again, off again boyfriend, Chad who is a necrophiliac and a useless idiot. Also, he must have some messed up mommy issues because he sleeps with Kathy, which is just gross and she hates herself for it.
Nick Jonas guest stars as Boone who is sort of secretly gay but he is killed by the devil only as it turns out, he isn't. He is in the morgue, grateful that the red devil rescues him and he peels off the scar on his neck.
Now, some of the twists I saw coming, like when Kathy hit on Grace's father but he proved to be far more interested in Kappa's former member and now lawyer, Gigi (Nasim Pedrad) while others I could have never seen coming, like Boone turning out to be gay and then faking his own death. Why would he do that? What does he have to prove?
And that college campus is horrible. After the one girl is beheaded, they don't search the house which is a good thing because Chanel #2's body is still in the house, soaking in her own blood. Thank goodness this is only a TV show. Fortunately, the set is great, with Chanel's huge closet and stylized clothes and the acting is brilliant. The show has creepy camera angles and you don't know where it is going to head. I can't believe the pilot 'killed' off four characters. But yes, it is funny. It probably shouldn't be as death isn't funny. Yet, I laughed several times. It just happened. You should check it out. Grade: B+