Just this past week on September 22, "Scream Queens" aired on FOX with a two-episode, back-to-back premiere of this unusual new television series. The night of the premiere, #ScreamQueens would become a trending topic on Twitter for the majority of the event, allowing viewers to react in real-time to what was occurring before them on their television screens.

This new series, created by the award-winning executive producers of “Glee” and “American Horror Story,” combines the two genres: horror and comedy. This is not an obvious move, but just wait.

The background to the story begins two decades ago in 1995, when a sorority pledge is found dead (close your eyes) after bleeding out while giving birth during a house party at the Kappa Kappa Tau house. At the 20^th anniversary of the accident, the college campus becomes the setting of a crime scene after people who are currently associated with the sorority start getting picked off one by one by a mysterious figure dressed in costume as a devil in red, which also happens to be the school's mascot.

Flash forward to the present day, when the same sorority and its current president Chanel (Emma Roberts) is being watched like a hawk by Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis), the newly-appointed Dean of the University, who despises the sorority system with a burning passion. Coming under fire, the sorority is forced to accept all incoming pledges, which is when we are introduced to Grace (Skylar Samuels), who serves as the audience's eyes and ears. It gets intense pretty quickly as things take a turn for the worse when the interested pledges begin their new school year while an investigation of murders is started.

Okay, so far the scream part is coming through loud and clear. But what about the queen part? Well it’s coming, and you may just be taken aback at how well these two genres go together.

The show is a combination of the two very different genres, as it has many comedic elements and yet moments of pure thrill and horror added into the mix. "Scream Queens" proves to be a true hybrid between the two genres and it turns out that it actually works! Ryan Murphy and crew took a risk, and it clearly paid off. This move was actually very clever; it demonstrates that he knows his audience and what they are drawn to.

Mainly attracting teenagers and young adults, he noticed that both demographics enjoyed the thrill of horror and the fun of comedy, and in many cases, even both. Although we have seen similar attempts at this in the classic 90s thriller film “Scream,” no one has tried this before on a platform such as this with a television series. He flipped the comedy genre on its head, giving it a little punch.

Be sure to catch up on "Scream Queens" with this trailer: