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With a trio of personalities behind the murders, Scream 6's startling Ghostface reveal had a distinct follow-through on a serial killer show. Scream (2022), sometimes referred to as Scream 5, and its sequel concentrated on half-sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter. One of the original Scream Ghostface characters, Billy Loomis, Sam's real father, led Ghostface to target them and their friends in Scream and Scream 6. The Carpenter sisters won not be returning for Scream 7 after Tara's actress Jenna Ortega left the show and Sam's actress Melissa Barrera was surprisingly sacked from it. This has generated a lot of debate around Scream 6 as Melissa Barrera was let go from Spyglass Media Group, the production company behind Scream 7, for pro-Palestine posts tagged as "antisemitism" and a "incitement of hate." Luckily, Sam managed to provide her plot a relatively appropriate ending, and Barrera has kept front stage in horror films like Abigail. Viewers have speculated about what would have happened to Sam and Tara Carpenter in Scream 7, and one Scream 6 character receives somewhat of an alternate plot in a well-known serial killer television series.
Liana Liberato played Quinn Bailey, Sam and Tara's roommate and the daughter of detective Wayne Bailey (Dermot Mulroney). Quinn emerges as one of the Ghostface mask assassins at the close of Scream 6. To allay suspicion, she had pretended to be Tara and Sam's friend as well as her death, returning for one last combat scene and devastating revelation. Liberato portrayed a believable manipulative killer, hence it was not surprising when the Ghostface actor returned as a serial killer in Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2.
Introduced in Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2, episode 4 in a wild turn that revealed "Gold Star, the serial killer the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) has been hunting down," Liberato's character, Jade Waters, is not one person but a gang of five. While Criminal Minds features unsubs, or unknown individuals whose revelations can produce the same kind of gasps viewers in cinemas viewing the Scream movies experience, the serial killer series may lack Ghostface. With Liberato's storyline so far exactly matching her Scream 6 performance, Scream and Criminal Minds also love misdirected and fake outs.
Usually starting with introducing who the unsub is at the beginning of the show, Criminal Minds episodes follow a structure whereby viewers see the BAU team attempt to ascertain what they already know. Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2 waited a while to reveal the unsub, which created the same thrill and suspense as the Scream movies in the series' comeback. Evolution season 2, episode 4 was set as though Jade's dad was "Gold Star," and she was playing out trying to exact revenge on him by pilfering his characteristic killing method.
Jade dies her father, though. Attending a reform institution, she and a group of victims of staff abuse "trauma bonded" and developed into Serial Killers. Because of her father and her relationship to her half-brother, another former Ghostface, Quinn turned murderous in Scream 6. Sam kills her at the conclusion of Scream 6 to exact retribution; in Criminal Minds: Evolution season 2, Jade lives and exacts retribution. With Criminal Minds: Liberato's character might elude justice even longer, so reversing Quinn's Scream 6 fate.
One similarity between Quinn in Scream 6 and Jade in Criminal Minds: Evolution is driven by a need for retribution and has been molded by their fathers. This implies that Liana Liberato is adept in capturing nuanced individuals who struggle with pain and a quest for justice—albeit in rather different ways.
Although Criminal Minds: Evolution explores the psychology of Serial Killers, offering a more complex view of the reasons behind their actions, Scream 6 concentrates on the horror genre. Liberato's agility as an actress in switching between these two genres emphasizes this. Her performance gains interesting complexity from the link between these two roles, which highlights her capacity to vividly depict difficult and unsettling personalities.
In the realm of horror and criminal thrillers, gifted actress Liana Liberato is fast establishing herself. Her ability to capture rich and sophisticated characters in Scream 6 and Criminal Minds: Evolution has won her tremendous praise. Liberato, who has a more than ten-year career, is destined for a great future in the entertainment business since she is gifted in playing convincing and unforgettable characters in several genres.
Her performance as a killer in both Scream and Criminal Minds implies she enjoys playing characters that can be rather dark but yet are also driven by a very personal narrative. Her capacity to negotiate the complexity of human nature—even under the most extreme circumstances—makes her an engaging presence on film and guarantees that she will remain a force to be reckoned with in the realm of entertainment.