Creator Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story) took the stage during the TCA Press Tour to talk about his new FOX series, Scream Queens, starring Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Keke Palmer, and Abigail Breslin. Accompanied by the cast and co-creators Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk, Ryan explained how Scream Queens is tonally distinct and very different from FX's American Horror Story.
"I think that Scream Queens has a much more satirical, cartoonish quality to the attacks than American Horror Story does," Murphy said, "which is much more sexualized and darker at times. And yes, we have had healthy discussions with broadcast standards. Shockingly, more about the language and the girls having an empowering sense of their own sense of sexuality. I mean, that is the one thing I always find very upsetting, is that violence is cool, for the most part. That's very easy to get through in my job. It's language, it's slang, it's trying to really reflect how people talk. It's trying to write characters who are open about their sexuality, who talk about their sexuality that gets the most attention and the most push‑back."
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"I think that Scream Queens has a much more satirical, cartoonish quality to the attacks than American Horror Story does," Murphy said, "which is much more sexualized and darker at times. And yes, we have had healthy discussions with broadcast standards. Shockingly, more about the language and the girls having an empowering sense of their own sense of sexuality. I mean, that is the one thing I always find very upsetting, is that violence is cool, for the most part. That's very easy to get through in my job. It's language, it's slang, it's trying to really reflect how people talk. It's trying to write characters who are open about their sexuality, who talk about their sexuality that gets the most attention and the most push‑back."
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