Chucky: Previously, on fuckin' 'Chucky':

June 5, 2024 2:20 PM - Season 3 (Full Season)

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.

posted by Shepherd (5 comments total)

So, the Child's Play series is kind of a weird blind spot for me; I've seen the first three movies (the original is literally the first R-rated horror movie I saw in a theater! I was not old enough to see it), but the rest of the entries are strangely difficult to find on streamers I already pay for. How necessary is it to have seen all (or any of) the movies to watch the show?
posted by kittens for breakfast at 5:38 PM on June 5

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]

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]

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]

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