by XdarksparkX
Originally written: September 21, 2010
[Images courtesy of VH1.com]
Six shitty actresses have fallen, four suspect actresses remain… this week the girls get in touch with their inner Emily Rose as they get possessed by the spirit of Hannibal Lector (not really, but kinda). It’s Scream Queens 2—Week Seven!
WEEK 7:
Power Percentage:
Total number of wins {1.0 for win, 0.5 for immunity/runner up} divided by weeks, plus 0.TTS (I.E. +0.7 for Jessica; 0.5 for Christine; 0.4 for Gabby]
Gabby finally comes to play and leapfrogs two spaces, though with the final week looming that pretty much means nothing. Though I must say, it is interesting that up until Tai, the Power Averages were right on par with the eliminations, and Tai’s elimination could be chalked up to necessity rather than overall performance within the competition. Not bad for an algorithm that took me all of 5 minutes to think up. So, the Final Three are set, and at the end of next week, one of them will be apart of one of the most abused dead-horses in the business. Everything they’ve been working for; all the uncooperative cauldrons, all the bricks thrown at their heads, all the maggots inadvertently swallowed, it was all to culminate to this. Next week, it’s Scream Queens 2—The Finals!
- SKILLS CHALLENGE:
This week, the girls will be possessed by a ghost in the Skills Challenge. The setup is that they’re attempting to contact a murdered woman via a séance, a woman who’s reputation staked her as the town tramp (lovely). The girls are to call on the spirit, have it enter their being, state its case and then exit their body. It’s a constant transitional performance basically.
Jessica played it off as if the girls reputation was not unfounded, like this girl really was the village bicycle (everyone’s had a ride!) She was almost overly sensual, I think Tai said it best in the confessional: “Whoa, Jessica. This is a little ‘bow-chicka-bow-wow’” And Christine comes along and takes cues from that but toned down physically, however her dialog is so vulgar it would make a sailor take notice and say “…damn.”
Tai was the one who actually thought “maybe this girl wasn’t the town slut, maybe some guy or girl just gave her that bad rep.” (Gasp! Deep story thinking and logistics are finally being used in this challenge!) She took this idea, and jacked it 425 feet into Ashburn Alley. Out of the park, walk off home-run. Her performance was simply outstanding. Is this a possible resurgence after her epic reality check last week?
As for Tai’s antithesis Gabby, she seemed too focused on her choice to cough when the spirit entered and exited her that it kinda pulled me out of her performance. It was like she was being choked by the spirit when it entered her, and then trying to throw it up when it eventually left.
Stand-Outs: Tai
Face-Palms: N/A - JOHN HOMA’S “GET OFF MY PORCH IF YOU’RE GONNA SUCK” ACTING EXERCISE:
Doing only what the Great Homa can, John wants the girls to explore the state of inebriation. “As a Scream Queen, odds are that you’re going to have scenes where you’re drinking” …and then attempting to run away from a lumbering seven-foot machete-wielding psychopath, only to fall on your ass and not get the fuck back up. Ahem, sorry, that ticks me off every goddamn time I see it. Anyway, Homa wants the girls to play plastered, without actually being plastered (because that would just be cheating… and unprofessional on a set, but mainly cheating).
After a few “drunken speech” tips, Homa sets up a scenario where at an office party, he is Christine’s boss and she has to drunkenly admit to being in love with him. At first, she flounders a bit, but she gets exactly what he wanted on her second try. He tells Tai to do the same, and the mood goes from lighthearted to HOMA RAGE in a matter of Tai overplaying her drunken state by crashing into an adjacent table. “KEEP THIS REAL, YOU!” You could just feel the anger-venom Homa spat out when he said this, “This is not a comedy, so why are you overplaying it!? I heard you were terrific with Jaime, so let’s go!” Damn, I don’t know if I can recall someone being on Homa’s shit list in back-to-back classes. Maybe I spoke too soon about her resurgence…
Homa changes things up when Gabby steps up. This time, he’s supposed to be her boyfriend who’s always abused her, and thanks to a little alcoholic empowerment, she’s finally going to give him a piece of her mind. What Gabby seems to miss are two critical concepts, “drunk” and “empowerment” because she displayed neither.
Jessica steps up and really nails down what Homa wanted, the back and forth between him and her felt very realistic, pretty much everything from her slurring of words to her off-balance stature was extremely believable. It’s a shame that after not being anywhere near the Bottom 2 for seven weeks, her head’s started to balloon so big I wonder if Falcon Heene is hiding in there.
In a Shyamalan-ian twist, Gabby starts crying and says that she knows she could’ve done better when asked about it by Homa. He asks if he puts her back up there, will she give him better and she states a resounding “yes”, so he lets her try again. This straight up pisses in Jessica’s Trix cereal, because she swears that now that Gabby has seen her performance she knows what to hit in order to get what Homa wants. Jess starts to BAAWW about how “it’s not fair that certain people get second chances” She says that everyone else gets one shot and they have to bring it on that one shot, blah blah blah. By that logic Jess, second takes, reshoots and editing aren’t “fair” either. To be honest, this seems like her “I have to work harder because I’m Hispanic” demons are creeping up to the surface after watching a saltine cracker like Gabby get a second shot (not like you needed it Jessica, you were still kick ass). I think that she also knows that at this stage in the competition all it takes is one successful power play before she finds herself down a goal with a minute left to play.
"Baaaawwwww!"
Stand-Outs: Jessica, Gabby (second try)
Face-Palms: Tai, Gabby (first try) - DIRECTOR’S CHALLENGE:
Somewhere in Baltimore State Hospital, Hannibal Lector is grinning ear-to-ear at the prospect of this weeks Director’s Challenge. The girls are to play a psychopathic murderer locked in a modern day asylum, revealing the details of their killing spree to their very own Clarice Starling. The Jodie Foster for the girls is Heath Freeman, who’s most notable stint according to his IMDb page was a 7 episode run on Raising The Bar. Hey, at least SQ is a job, right?
Jessica, once again is out go-to setup girl. She tries on a Brooklyn accent for her character, and completely flubs her first take because she’s apparently more worried about how the accent is coming out than her lines and the actual performance. Tim gave her the opportunity to drop it after the first take, but she stuck with it and it was definitely for the better. She’s like a machine; she maybe take a bit to get booted up in the first take, but by the second take, she’s running as smooth as can be.
Christine went a different route, playing a more innocent and less sexually charged insane. It came off extremely well… until the end where she was supposed to scare Heath and sounded more-or-less like a Saturday morning cartoon villain. Ugh, damn it Chris you were this close! Her BFF in the house Gabby meanwhile, manages to absolutely destroy all comers on her first take, which left me pleasantly surprised. This is the best I’ve seen Gabby in any Director’s Challenge. Way to save your best stuff for the last leg.
And then there’s Tai. She was flat-out all over the place in her first take. Yes, the character is crazy but there has to be a transition, there has to be. Tim reiterates exactly this to her after her first take, saying that she’s making to many choices that are disjointed from one-another. Her answer to this? A f’n crotch shot. That’s right, Tai just flashed her shit all over town like she was Sharon Stone or something.
“…and lets face it Sid, your mother is no Sharon Stone!”
Stand-Outs: Gabby, Jessica
Face-Palms: Tai, Christine - THE AXE:
All of the girls were called to the Grand Ballroom for the judgments that follow:
Gabby was named Week 7’s Leading Lady, with Jessica's undefeated streak finally coming to an end as she settles for Runner-Up.
Christine and Tai were this week’s Bottom 2 performers, and ultimately it was…
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Tai who got AXED. Round and round the house they went, as Tai tormented poor Gabby. The bitch, she thought it ‘twas all fun… POP! goes the ego.
- Jessica (3-1-0; 7) 1.200
- Gabby (2-1-2; 4) .757 [previously 4th]
- Christine (0-1-2; 5) .571
Tai (1-2-2; 5) .785Sierra (1-1-4; 2) .450Sarah (0-1-2; 3) .425Allison (0-1-2; 3) .425Karlie (0-0-1; 2) .200Rosanna (0-0-1; 1) .100Lana (0-0-0; 0) .000
Power Percentage:
Total number of wins {1.0 for win, 0.5 for immunity/runner up} divided by weeks, plus 0.TTS (I.E. +0.7 for Jessica; 0.5 for Christine; 0.4 for Gabby]
Gabby finally comes to play and leapfrogs two spaces, though with the final week looming that pretty much means nothing. Though I must say, it is interesting that up until Tai, the Power Averages were right on par with the eliminations, and Tai’s elimination could be chalked up to necessity rather than overall performance within the competition. Not bad for an algorithm that took me all of 5 minutes to think up. So, the Final Three are set, and at the end of next week, one of them will be apart of one of the most abused dead-horses in the business. Everything they’ve been working for; all the uncooperative cauldrons, all the bricks thrown at their heads, all the maggots inadvertently swallowed, it was all to culminate to this. Next week, it’s Scream Queens 2—The Finals!
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