Scream: Resurrection - Endgame

One call from Ghostface once again reiterates that Deion has something to admit, to cop to, and he hasn’t seemed to have satisfied the game. A big football game where the recruiter agrees after some convincing from Deion’s coach could be Deion’s chance to finally build a good future for himself. Deion tells his dad he won’t play in the big game, but Pop admits he hopes he doesn’t make similar mistakes, too many regrets can come back to haunt you.  Deion decides to listen to Pop and commit to a possible future. As for Jamal, he’s kept alive by Ghostface despite being impaled by the garbage picker! A phone recording is sent via message to the detention club, and all starts to come together. Plenty of exposition gets laid out by Jay(mal) when Deion arrives to save him, copping to doing many of the Ghostface killings…but not all of them. Liv and Deion later learn who the other Ghostface was…Beth. Beth, the one who laid out all the rules, including the final girl (ultimately two, as Kym claims some cred for herself) and who should be the Ghostface, is the other killer, eventually turning on Jay when he was vulnerable. Jay lets Deion know exactly how he feels about him and his involvement in the Ghostface killings.

Deion’s admitting to being Marcus I must credit my wife for actually calling in the previous episode. She mentions it to me and my daughter and I hadn’t really put much thought into that. Turns out Deion wanted to help his bullied brother, Marcus. Marcus, constantly picked on by the school bully, was finally allowed to wear Deion’s jersey and helmet. Marcus leaves behind Deion at the junkyard, and Jay eventually found out about it, venting to tattoo artist, Beth, about how much he hates his half-brother. So Beth took advantage of that hate and their Ghostface game took shape. Deion carrying this secret, telling Liv, and wanting everyone else to know the truth; this was a big motivational tool for Jay to commit to his Ghostface murders and Beth pleasantly admits she’s always been a sociopath. Beth says she was born bad.

Liv and Beth talk about converging at the high school while Beth later admits that “Ghostface” told Kym to just leave her friends behind and survive. Beth shooting Deion as he is about to call police is the BIG REVEAL besides all of Jay’s exposition which, much like Beth to Liv, seems to go on forever.

Blab, blab, blab. She goes on and on, ad nauseum.  Like some Bond villain. Just the fuck up, Beth. She drones her monologue for so fucking long, enough time was allowed for somebody, anybody, to come to Liv’s rescue. Giorgia Whigham, as Beth, is just having the time of her life when the truth comes out. Her delivery, the swagger, the mocking of Liv, cool with all she’s done and plans to do; Giorgia finally gets to channel Skeet Ulrich and many other exhaustively unflappable villains who must get out their novella of reasoning for killing folks. But out of the cast, many might feel Beth had the best lines and was the most interesting character, while others perhaps will enjoy Kym for her strong personality, take-no-shit attitude, and confrontational delivery.

At least before learning of Jay’s betrayal and Beth’s psychopathy, he had his big play in the big game for his parents, girlfriend (no longer the cheerleader), and San Diego State recruiter to enjoy. And, ultimately, because Beth couldn’t seem to get on with it (she had the ax while Liv was hobbling due to a knife stab to the leg) enough time elapsed that interrupted her grand finale.

Overall the six-episode third season threw enough twists at the viewer by the end to keep things going, but I’m not sure how much more mileage the Scream brand has left. Michael Myers seems to never truly die, so Ghostface, with its many different killers behind the mask, might find a long shelf life as long as creative minds want to mine that shaft. 2.5/5