Random TV Season Review - Chucky (Season 1)

 

For years since Cult of Chucky, we fans have been promised a TV series that would continue that universe's story. Well it's finally here and boy it's good to see Chucky again. Between this and that film, we had a remake of the first film by MGM which, to be honest, wasn't great despite Mark Hamill being the voice of Chucky. But the original and greatest is back on the small screen with his absurd comedy and means to manipulate people to kill. Some people may be put off due to how this is clearly a show for the fans and not one for newcomers, as it would not make much sense. Let's take a look:

In Hackensack, New Jersey, 14-year-old Jake Wheeler (played by Zackary Arthur) is doing an art project that uses doll parts. He comes across an old Good Guy doll, which he initially uses for his project. Little does he know that this doll happens to be one of many from Cult of Chucky to be possessed by the late Charles Lee Ray (reprised by Brad Douif) who is known as Chucky in this form. Jake becomes a prime suspect in a series of murders that involve the doll, who goes about killing numerous people in the town. With much of his friends having mixed feelings about it all, he sets out to stop Chucky before the whole town is murdered by his little hands. We also get flashbacks of the life of Charles before the events of the first Child's Play, and also what happened to the characters that we last saw in Cult of Chucky.

It is a coming of age story that happens to feature Chucky and tackles a lot of mature things such as sexuality (Jake identifies as gay in this instance), modern bullying, domestic life and murder among other things. It tackles those subjects really well while giving us absurd comedy, creative horror and (if you pardon the pun) a bloody good time. Like I said, this show is more for those that enjoyed the films and any newcomer to the series should watch all the films first before watching this. Looking forward to season two. 9/10