Pilot (Scream Queens)
| "Pilot" | |
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| Scream Queens episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Ryan Murphy |
| Written by |
Ryan Murphy Brad Falchuk Ian Brennan |
| Production code | 1AYD01 |
| Original air date | September 22, 2015 |
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"Pilot" is the pilot episode of the horror black comedy series Scream Queens. It had its world premiere at the 2015 Comic-Con, and premiered on September 22 2015, along with the next episode, "Hell Week", as the special two-hour premiere on Fox. The series focuses on a college that is rocked by a serial killer in a Red Devil costume. The episode was directed by series creator Ryan Murphy, and was written by Murphy and his co-creators, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan. Ariana Grande and Nick Jonas guest star as Chanel #2 and Boone Clemens.
The series premiere, along with the second episode, was watched by 4.04 million viewers and received mixed reviews from critics.
At a party in the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority house at Wallace University, Amy (Chelsea Ricketts) stumbles down the stairs with blood soaked hands and warns the current president Bethany Stevens (Anna Grace Barlow) and her friends Coco (Anna Margaret Collins) and Mandy (Grace Phipps) that something has happened upstairs in the bathroom. They enter the room only to find a postpartum Sophia Doyle (McKaley Miller) holding a baby, disgusting Bethany and she scolds at Sophia before leaving the room to dance to "Waterfalls" by TLC instead of helping the duo. When they come back, they are shocked to find Sophia dead and wonder how to cover the incident up.
In modern day, Kappa Kappa Tau is ruled by the cruel, vain and ruthless president Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts) and her minions, whom she doesn't care enough to learn their names and just called them based on her own name; Chanel #2 (Ariana Grande), Chanel #3 (Billie Lourd), and Chanel #5 (Abigail Breslin), are the most popular and mean girls of the campus and the current residents of Kappa Kappa Tau. In the past, there was a Chanel #4, but she died of meningitis. Dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) hates sororities, especially Kappa, and won't let Kappa have the same system that it currently carries. She hates Chanel because she sees her as the example of what's wrong with girls these days. In her office, Munsch tells Chanel that she thinks that she was the one who injured the previous Kappa president, Melanie Dorkus (Brianne Howey), to get her position, but Chanel denies it. Munsch says that she's going to take Kappa down this year, starting by revoking their charter. Just then, Gigi Caldwell (Nasim Pedrad), president of the national chapter of Kappa Kappa Tau and a lawyer, walks in and says that Munsch is not allowed to revoke their charter. Chanel then threatens Cathy and exits. The dean then tells Gigi that Kappa won't have it easy this year and Gigi tells Cathy she has a suggestion. At the same time, Grace Gardner (Skyler Samuels) arrives at Wallace and has a tearful goodbye with her father, Wes Gardner (Oliver Hudson). She befriends her roommate, Zayday Williams (Keke Palmer) and they plan to pledge Kappa Kappa Tau, even though Zayday is hesitant.
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