Scream photo recap: 'Heavenly Creatures' 

In any teen drama, the biggest mystery will always be the parents. Do they exist? Where are they? Why are their children allowed to come and go at any time and do whatever they want for any reason? Much of the appeal of a teen soap is how the protagonists are young enough to eschew adult responsibility, but old enough to not actually

authority figures or curfews or rides home. That’s why the parents get constantly murdered: In a teen soap, nobody’s more expendable than a parent.

the TV series killed off another parent this week! For those of you riveted by the extremely long and drawn-out plotline concerning Brooke’s dad’s various mayoral improprieties… Sorry. Sorta-Ghostface had other ideas, and those ideas involved a pitchfork to the heart. Still, “Heavenly Creatures” continued

’s late-season attempt to be, you know, scary. And in a handful of scenes, it actually worked! So let’s talk about it:

We began with a genuinely unsettling moment that put a new spin on the home-invasion trope: This time, the camera tracked

-esque P.O.V. moment. But the main thing to know is that the suspense was real, and I was into it.

After accidentally stopping by Chill Mom™’s bedroom (uh, Kieran, you’ve been here before, you know which bedroom is which), the killer went into Emma’s room and stole her dream diary! That was a dirty trick and certainly something the killer could’ve done when Emma wasn’t sleeping a mere 4 feet away. Still, it was a creepy moment, and when Emma awoke to find a mysterious wooden necklace with her name on it, she had to agree.

jewelry? Murder aside, the killer had really crossed the line this time.

After the cops arrived, guess who else busted through the door with an “I came as soon as I heard” intensity? You guessed it! The boyfriend, always a few minutes too late.

It’s always nice when characters in horror films actually

their dead friends, so seeing Noah in a grief-stricken daze felt real and affecting. His first love had been drowned in a casket! That’s the sort of thing not even mylar balloons and a latté can help you recover from.

Because he was still relegated to a hospital bed on account of getting stabbed nearly to death, Noah instructed his friends to go into his bedroom, dismantle his murder wall, and dispose of all his murder-themed artifacts. He had

with murder. But this gave them an opportunity to find a clue in his stash that not even a murder obsessive had picked up on…

It was an old newspaper clipping from a season 1 funeral in which Eli was standing in the background! But why was he at a funeral for a slain character he hadn’t met yet? And why wasn’t he wearing a black suit? And what kind of newspaper prints a photo of a funeral, anyway? Whatever the case, Eli was now seeming even creepier than usual, and that’s saying something.

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Because the mayor had bribed Eli’s mom to leave town (for reasons I honestly can’t remember at this point), Eli refused to move away and promised he’d personally “deal with” the mayor once and for all. That’s why he then broke into the mayor’s manse in a black hoodie. (I think we were supposed to believe this meant Eli was

the killer, but come on. This was just Eli being Eli.) Anyway, he found a stack of VERY incriminating paperwork in the mayor’s desk, and just to prove Eli was

Damn, that was a cold-blooded move. The mayor took one look at the note and fell to his knees weeping in fear. Just kidding, he stared at it with the dead eyes of a mannequin.

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