Chucky: Previously, on fuckin' 'Chucky':
June 5, 2024 2:20 PM - Season 3 (Full Season) - Subscribe
This season has it all, folks: Devon Sawa in another dual role, the obliteration of Santa Claus, the return of Charles Lee Ray in non-doll form, meeting Dhambala, Jennifer Tilly somehow finding another notch after 12 to crank that the dial past, queer romance, ersatz G. Gordon Liddy, innovative kills, a group of parapsychologists right out of Hill House, and enough gallons of blood to literally fill the White House.
If you like weird comedy-horror, queer-positive TV, psychotic dolls and Jennifer Tilly in the role of several lifetimes and you are not watching Chucky, you're wrong. You're a wrong person. You are bad and you should feel bad.
Watch
fuckin'
Chucky.
If you like weird comedy-horror, queer-positive TV, psychotic dolls and Jennifer Tilly in the role of several lifetimes and you are not watching Chucky, you're wrong. You're a wrong person. You are bad and you should feel bad.
Watch
fuckin'
Chucky.
I would say not terribly necessary. Basically it's a possessed doll. But maybe more experienced Chuckyheads can run a Cliff's Notes version of some relevant parts.
posted by Kitteh at 4:06 AM on June 6 [1 favorite]
posted by Kitteh at 4:06 AM on June 6 [1 favorite]
I'd actually only seen the first three when I started watching the show, and still haven't seen any of the other movies. There's some stuff, especially in the second season, that might hit deep cuts from Bride, Seed and Curse, but there are enough context clues that I felt caught-up pretty quickly.
Gentle spoilers follow:
1. A serial killer named Tiffany Valentine at some point got Chuckied into a female doll; they are in a love/hate relationship, and
2. At one point had a genderfluid doll-child; concurrently
3. A paraplegic woman was also one of the Good Guy Doll / Chucky owners, central to a couple of the later movies, and at one point was possessed by the spirit of Chucky.
If you know those things, that's basically enough to roll with.
posted by Shepherd at 6:35 AM on June 6 [1 favorite]
Gentle spoilers follow:
1. A serial killer named Tiffany Valentine at some point got Chuckied into a female doll; they are in a love/hate relationship, and
2. At one point had a genderfluid doll-child; concurrently
3. A paraplegic woman was also one of the Good Guy Doll / Chucky owners, central to a couple of the later movies, and at one point was possessed by the spirit of Chucky.
If you know those things, that's basically enough to roll with.
posted by Shepherd at 6:35 AM on June 6 [1 favorite]
Aw man, I haven't finished the second half of this season yet (I just remembered that it came back!) but it is so good. So much gleeful gore, so much camp. This season has been, I think, a little not-as-good as the first two, maybe? but it's still great TV and I can't wait to finish the rest.
posted by uncleozzy at 10:39 AM on June 7 [1 favorite]
posted by uncleozzy at 10:39 AM on June 7 [1 favorite]
I think my ranking would be 1/3/2 -- a lot to love about 2, but I lean a bit more to the lore-light, self-contained stuff. YMMV of course!
posted by Shepherd at 1:25 PM on June 7
posted by Shepherd at 1:25 PM on June 7
Thanks to covid, I have spent the last week and a half watching the last four movies in the franchise (now on US Netflix) and the entire Chucky to date. I love it! I think the lore is the best stuff, personally, and my ranking is more like 2/1/3, but there isn't a bad episode in the series, and it's criminal that basically no one knows about it!
However, I do think it's necessary to come in having seen the films -- or at least Child's Play, Bride of Chucky, and Seed of Chucky. The show will get you up to speed with what you missed otherwise, but there's a lot in those three that you kinda have to understand to really appreciate a few of the major plot points.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 8:32 PM on August 21 [2 favorites]
However, I do think it's necessary to come in having seen the films -- or at least Child's Play, Bride of Chucky, and Seed of Chucky. The show will get you up to speed with what you missed otherwise, but there's a lot in those three that you kinda have to understand to really appreciate a few of the major plot points.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 8:32 PM on August 21 [2 favorites]
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posted by kittens for breakfast at 5:38 PM on June 5