'Scream Queens' season 2 news, spoilers: New teaser reunites Zayday with the Chanels
Following its crazy and bloody freshman season, the next chapter of Fox's "Scream Queens" is set to reveal the Chanels (Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, and Abigail Breslin) having graduated from the fictional Wallace University and making their way to a hospital ran by season 1's Dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis).
The latest teaser for "Scream Queens" season 2 shows Zayday Williams (Keke Palmer), who survived various serial killers in the comedy horror's first season, having to deal with something infinitely worse: being reunited with Chanel Oberlin (Roberts) and the rest of the Chanels.
In the new season, the former sorority girls have somehow become medical students who are working in a hospital where the "incurable are cured." The teasers for the upcoming season also feature some of the show's new characters, primarily made up of doctors and nurses who don't seem very concerned about their patients.
According to Fox, the new season of "Scream Queens" will deal with another "terrifyingly funny murder mystery" that unfolds in a hospital where some of the most bizarre and fascinating medical mysteries are being observed.
Season 2 will reportedly pick up three years after the events of the first season. After the murders at Kappa House, the Chanels will find themselves at an abandoned hospital that Dean Munsch purchased under the guise of attempting to fix the American healthcare system. Munsch hires surgeons Dr. Brock Holt and Dr. Cassidy Cascade (to be played by "Scream Queens" newbies John Stamos and Taylor Lautner, respectively).
Dean Munsch also recruits Zayday, now a medical student, and later causes a stir when she enlists the help of the Chanels. Meanwhile, skeletons from the hospital's past begin to emerge as a new serial killer makes his/her presence known.
Apart from Roberts, Curtis, Palmer, Breslin, and Lourd, season 1 cast members Glen Powell and Niecy Nash are also set to reprise their roles in season 2.
"I love the idea that ['Scream Queens' executive producer] Ryan [Murphy] and company felt like they'd said what they had to say with the sorority and that they wanted something new," Curtis told Access Hollywood this summer. "And, as we've started shooting, all of us have said... we'd be so bored if we were back at Kappa House. So I do feel like this is a really smart, interesting, very clever idea of changing up the location, even though the characters are the same. So bringing in a couple doctors has been very fun."
"Scream Queens" season 2 kicks off on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 9 p.m. ET on Fox.