Let’s start off by saying there was not nearly enough of Chad in this episode. I really enjoyed the heavy nods to The Shining and Silence of the Lambs, though. And, let’s be honest, they went off the deep end in the best way this week!

Spoilers ahead!

Zayday’s not dead. She’s been left in a pit, a la Silence of the Lambs, while the Red Devil looms over her, complete with little dog. Because why not? He/She probably stole the dog solely for the purpose of that scene. Apparently he was going to court Zayday? Which is….really random. Between that and the haunted house set up last week (which I am SO SURE is a courting thing to Chad, I refuse to believe otherwise), the Red Devil has some seriously messed up priorities. Are we exacting some sort of revenge on the Kappas? Or are we trying to get into co-ed’s pants?

Speaking of… It occurs to me that the dad of Bathtub Baby was never addressed. Since the Red Devil is down with cutting off the arms and/or killing the Dickie Dollar Scholars, could it be that the sperm donor came from that fraternity?

One of my favorite exchanges this episode was between Dean Munsch and Denise. They’re just sitting around, chatting it up about how the Dean blackmailed Chad into sleeping with her and how it was forty-five seconds of awful. Come to find out, Chad’s slept with Denise, too. Seriously? Is there anyone on this campus he hasn’t slept with (my guess is no)?

I don’t know why Grace aggravates the hell out of me. I really don’t. And Pete is even worse. It’s all hectic and OMG FIND ZAYDAY OMG SELF-RIGHTEOUS WORDS OMG. I think under the timeline, Zayday has been missing less than twenty-four hours by the time we get to this point, so their crazy insistence that the (seriously bad at their job) police get involved is kind of nuts.

So she and her little posse (which includes her creepy dad, Gigi, and Denise) go out in search for Zayday using the Find My Phone app. Since it was that easy to track her down, you’d think they would have just started with that instead of trying to get everyone and their dog involved in the search. Easy, peasy.

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Naturally, when they find what appears to be the Red Devil’s lair (I have my doubts, but maybe that’s MTV’s Scream rubbing off on me), filled with weapons hanging artfully from chains, a murder room, and costumes all over the place. Side note—I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: why has no one thought to search the costume purchases?

Grace goes around, leaving her fingerprints all over everything (Look with your eyes, not your hands!). They find an empty hole where Zayday was previously kept. The Red Devil shows up, screws with Denise and Gigi, gets tased and disappears. I thought it was weird that he was basically screwing with them, prankster-style, and that thought was confirmed by the end-of-episode OMG. Gigi is in on it. Perhaps she orchestrated this whole thing? And since she told the Red Devil that things went too far and to take care of “him,” my guess is she means the bro Boone in his Red Devil costume since they obviously aren’t going to out the non-revealed Red Devil (if that makes any sense).

Zayday’s escape tale is suspicious as hell. Just saying. And, as Denise says, she’s got a chainsaw under her bed. The girl is not in the clear for being the Red Devil.

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Chanel had an eventful episode. She was turned in as the murder of Ms. Bean. She thinks Chanel #5 turned her in, but I think it was more shenanigans of the Red Devil variety. She’s a natural in prison and finds followers almost immediately, because of course she does. The first thing she does when she gets bail posted is to send #5 out to light all the jack-o-lanterns in her pumpkin patch, which #5 recruits the other two parts of her Eiffel Towering partners.

OF COURSE they’re twins. We knew they were brothers, but the whole twin thing just made my inner romance writer laugh and laugh and laugh. Twincest at its best. Naturally, the Red Devil shows up and, in the midst of a chase through the perfect replica of the corn maze from The Shining (complete with snow), the twins decide that she needs to choose one of them over the other because they’re both in love with her. She chooses her favorite half of the Eiffel Tower and they take off and leave the other to basically die alone. Cause that’s how Scream Queens rolls.

During the chase, they realize their footprints is leading the Red Devil right to them (which should have meant that he’d find them quicker) so they all holler back and forth to walk backwards so he can’t find them… The logic is so flawed. Why are all these people so painfully unintelligent? It’s funny in some cases, but it’s very eye-rolling here. I like to think the Red Devil was rolling his/her eyes, too.

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So big questions at the end of this episode: How the hell does the Red Devil walk so quietly? Shouldn’t his costume like squeak when his arms rub against his sides? Or does he walk like an ape to avoid that under the cape? AHEM.

Also, apparently Gigi is orchestrating the whole Red Devil shenanigans in addition to being rocking-chair-wailing-hag crazy? Not sure which is the real Gigi—the nuts one or the stone-cold manipulating maybe-murderer, but I’m intrigued.

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Katee Robert learned to tell stories at her grandpa’s knee. Her favorites then were the rather epic adventures of The Three Bears, but at age twelve she discovered romance novels and never looked back. Though she dabbled in writing, life got in the way—as it often does—and she spent a few years traveling, living in both Philadelphia and Germany. In between traveling and raising her two wee ones, she had the crazy idea that she’d like to write a book and try to get published. Her first novel was an epic fantasy that, God willing, will never see the light of day. From there, she dabbled in YA and horror, before finally finding speculative romance. Because, really, who wouldn’t want to write entire books about the smoking-hot relationships between two people? She now spends her time—when not lost in Far Reach worlds—playing imaginary games with her wee ones, writing, ogling men, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Visit her on her website, Facebook, or Twitter!