Ryan Murphy turns a corner, whilst at the same time going off course

I'll look at the take on the Scream franchise's TV movie made for Halloween tomorrow as my movie drought continues but today (tonight) lets head to another bunch of screamers, Scream Queens.

Also I will touch on the mid season reboot of American Horror Story - Roanoke.

Scream Queens is the on again off again show that FOX (in the USA) screen every now and then when they feel like it. If it's not a VP debate, it's world series and after 7 weeks you'll be lucky enough to see 5 ever so random episodes.

This last weeks episode saw the series shrink to under 1.5 million US viewers. Terrible.

We have seen a major cast member killed off and I have a feeling this show will also be killed off soon leaving Ryan Murphy with his American Crime Stories and Horror stories. Not to mention the upcoming Feud on FX with an awesome all star cast and a first season 8 episode run.

Murphy like the end of Glee seems distracted, all these projects and all these characters (based on real life folk or made up) are starting to all feel a little too camp.

When Murphy nails it like with American Crime Story, he kills it, but when things start to go pear shaped like Nip/Tuck Season Six, they really lose the plot.

Scream Queens was always going to struggle in a second series, being a horror show (like horror movies) there are only so many cast members you can kill off without the audience completely abandoning the series.

I love the high camp, culture references from week to week (or fortnight to fortnight) but do all middle Americans get all the culture references and snippy side comments if they are Trump voters? If Murphy wanted to make a smart and witty teen/horror series maybe FX, Showtime or HBO would be a better fit than US Network TV.

So Scream Queens in my spilt personality vote, is impressive yet the Green Meanie is a super shit villain compared to the more believable Red Devil.

With added Green Slime it almost makes the show a little comical.

The cast is outstanding, but the story lines in this series really need some work. Scream Queens could be Murphy brilliant instead it's Murphy distracted and not on par with the brilliant new series of American Horror Story - Roanoke which has turned yet another amazing corner.

Creating a show in a show and using the already outstanding cast in this way has boosted my interest in this already brilliant chapter. And 6 episodes in this year the show has not yet jumped the shark. Every year around this time (or earlier in Coven's case) the show loses the plot however this year we are on track.

Last week beating Scream Queens by almost a million viewers this series is the third best from the AHS franchise. Already renewed for a seventh outing I have a feeling Murphy is onto his longest living and best series to date here. As long as he doesn't get TOO distracted.