SummaryA series of murders begins soon after a "Good Guy" doll is found at a suburban yard sale in this spin-off of the Child's Play/Chucky film franchise.
SummaryA series of murders begins soon after a "Good Guy" doll is found at a suburban yard sale in this spin-off of the Child's Play/Chucky film franchise.
Chucky walks a fascinating tonal tightrope as a funny, absurd series that engenders sympathy as well as shock for characters who are more than worthy of our derision. It creates a world of malleable, alienated kids failed to varying degrees by their parents, and then it expresses the danger of what they find once they’re pushed away.
The people making Chucky don’t appear to be losing sleep over such technicalities as “what happens” or “how much sense it makes”, but if you can allow yourself to sink into its campy-gory teenage nonsense, then it sweeps you away on a tide of vulgarity and escapism.
I am absolutely loving this first ever series. I am only two episodes left and I can tell you now it is incredible. There are so many nods to the previous movies and a ton of lore that has been explored and as a huge child’s play fan this is the best series!!
Like Starz’s similarly lighthearted Ash vs Evil Dead, Chucky works because it’s reverential and yet not consumed with rehashing that which came before. It won’t win over many new converts, but anyone with a soft spot for the cheery maniac doll will no doubt get a kick out of his latest reign of terror.
Chucky adds some fun story elements to the “murdering doll” dynamic, bringing the franchise back to it’s earliest days, when we found out how Charles Lee Ray became a belligerent, knife-wielding, redheaded doll.
There are hints that Syfy and USA’s Chucky might eventually get into the twisty and bizarrely meta world of the extended Child’s Play universe (I truly didn’t know that a movie called Cult of Chucky existed). But through the four episodes sent to critics, it tends, agreeably, toward the simple side of things. ... Honestly, anybody tuning in to Chucky is there for the doll. In that respect, the series delivers solidly.
Making Jake gay, a reflection of openly gay “Child’s Play” creator and “Chucky” writer/director Don Mancini, offers an admirably different perspective for a horror franchise – but viewers will need to buy into the teen drama to appreciate this iteration of “Chucky.”
The soapy humdrum of these stock characters’ lives is of negative interest and the show only predictably comes crashing to life when Chucky, still manically voiced by Brad Dourif, is wreaking havoc.
First episode was ok. I really could've done without the uber wokeness in the beginning though. But then again nothing in hollywood comes without it anymore.