Streaming Standard: Chucky- Season 3

 A Review that I've put off for a good reason.  
I'll get to that later.

For now, know that this is the 3rd and (for now) final Season of the Show.

Will it end in a strong way?
To find out, read on...

Many things have changed since the Ending of Season 2.

Chucky is back alive just fine and is now residing in The White House as the personal doll of the President's youngest Son.

How did he get there?  Find out...in 2 full Episodes.

The President is played by Devon Sawa, marking his 4th Character on the Show.

They explained it when he was the Dad's twin Brother, but gave up in Season 2.
Why not make him be The President now?

'I won't die...for at least 4 Episodes.'

Our Heroes try to recover from the violence and insanity of the last Season.

Our Heroine's Sister is still missing, a mystery that will also not be explained until Episode 3.

They eventually discover where Chucky is, but how do they get into the White House?
They aren't construction workers who can take down the East Wing!

We'll also find out that something is wrong with Chucky's doll body....and soul.

This is going to raise the stakes.
Now he's really going to die...possibly...okay, obviously not really.

Elsewhere, Jennifer Tilly is convicted of all of the murders and sent to Death Row in Texas.

Can she escape now that she's gotten all of the voodoo items that give her power?

I can only pretend that there's drama here for so long.

Things all come to a head in the White House!

Our Heroes must not only stop Chucky, but his soul itself.

Can they do it...or does the Show end on just the most complete reset possible?

Is it clear that I'm annoyed yet?

Yeah, so I have some real issues here.

For starters, the Show gets far less dramatic when you realize that its Creator has zero interest in ever ending this Story.  
Three Films?  Not enough.  Two more Films?  Nope.  Two more Films?  Nope!!!

What is frustrating to me is that there is some real creativity involved in the Show.  On its own merits, it is not bad.

They just refuse to let Chucky ever be in real peril.  When he dies, there are a dozen Chucky Dolls.  When those are destroyed, there's another hidden one.  When that one dies, there's yet ANOTHER super-secret hidden one (and also being dead makes him somehow stronger).

Don Mancini- the rare Creator who never left his Series after 30+ years- promises to continue to the Story with yet another Film.

Will this be a finale?  I doubt it.

I was never a huge Chucky fan, but I have seen all but one of the Films (even the Reboot).  That said, a refusal to ever end things just feels like...well, I need a visual metaphor...

That will do.

A Show that I grew to like in the early days.  In spite of it killing off Characters at random, I stuck with it...and this is what I got.

Shudder Day: Chucky- Season 2

A longer turnaround here, but I did have to watch EIGHT Episode of TV for this one.

Cut me some slack, won't you?

Let's check out the 2nd Season of Don Mancini's Show...

As the 1st Season ended, we had a small army of Chuckies, kids in peril and the Lead from the original Film back to stop the dolls.

A big crash!
What happens next?!?

At least one Chucky survives, managing to get our Heroes back together to target them.

A big gambit.
An explosion.

They all survive, but now end up in a Catholic Reform Academy- that or Juvie!

Chucky is sneaking around the campus and takes out a Priest.

Meanwhile, they make a new friend, who just happens to be a bit off.
Is she the best thing for them right now though?

Meanwhile, we get a whole Side Episode about how Tiffany is in Jennifer Tilly's body with some big Guest Stars.

Our Heroes are fighting against a system at the School- led by the Head Priest- that doesn't believe them.

Oh, and said Priest is Devon Saw in his third Role in the Show (after playing our Hero's Dad and Uncle).

Speaking of multiple Roles, how many different Chucky types are there?!?

Notably, one of the Chucky doll is super jacked and somehow super strong.

Back in 1998, Chucky called out Rick Steiner for attacking his brother Scott before Halloween Havoc, saying that Scott would be the Star in his next Project.
Scott was super jacked as Big Poppa Pump.

Are we finally getting payoff to this after 24 years?

FYI he also met Rick's Son (as promotion for this Season) and he was less than impressed.

The whole Season builds to a climax in the Church.

Can they finally be free of Chucky?
Well, there's a Season 3...

Regardless, this is a Season that Chucky fans are...bound to love.

Thank you!
Try the fish.

A Season full of Drama, murder, intrigue, more murder and misdirection.

As I stated last time, I didn't love *every* choice made in the last Season.
That does carry over to this one, of course, as the Characters deal with said choices/actions.

The change in Setting here works nicely.  The new Environment brings new Characters, freshens things up and allows for plenty of mayhem.

Is this Season a little sacrilegious?
Is the Pope Catholic?!?

The new Characters are mostly great, with some being more one-note than others.

As I also stated in the last Review, I wasn't 100% up to date on some of the Chucky lore, but the Show helpfully fills *most* of that in.

My only major critique is that I'm wondering how many times you can pull the 'Chucky is dead for good' card and it keep working.  
We'll see, Season 3.

Speaking of which, I'm going to take a short break from the Show.  Otherwise, watching said Season will feel like this...

Another good Season that really rewards fans of the deeper Child's Play lore.  If that's not you, just enjoy the mayhem!

Shudder-day: Chucky- Season 1

 At the recommendation of a family member, I finally checked this Show out.

Naturally, I start watching it once it is cancelled.  Oy.

This is the first Season of...

A young guy named Jake is not the most popular guy in School.

He's openly gay and is into making Art out of dolls.

He finds a 'vintage' Good Guy doll to use for his sculpture, but it won't come apart.

With his drunk Dad at home, he can't keep it there, so...

He soon learns that Chucky is alive and has been in hiding since the events of Cult of Chucky (I guess I need to see that one, eh).

He tries to get Jake to kill for him, 'earning' that by killing his Dad with a loose wire.

Jake is antagonized by his classmate Lexy, who is also dating his Cousin.

He tries to resist Chucky's push to kill, while also trying to get anyone to believe him.

Somehow Chucky has killed people since 1988 and nobody believes it.

The Season is 8 Episodes long and I won't recap it all.

I'll give you a brief summary to end this though...

A fiery dance party.  

Death in the Hospital.  

Old(er) faces from the past Films.

To see it how it plays out stream it now.

A Show that is a must-see for fans of the Franchise.

I've never hated the Films (like, say, Hostel), but I've also never been a huge fan of it.

Did it win me over?

Kind of.  I liked the Show's Story, connecting with Jake and his friends.  I wanted to see them win.

Dourif, as always, is great as Chucky.  I was less of a fan of watching him dub over someone who looks like Tommy Wiseau that was supposed to be him from 1988.

The returning Characters was a nice thing.  As someone who didn't watch Cult of Chucky, I was definitely missing some details.

The new additions to Chucky lore were good, but a bit weird.  Things don't get explained super well.  When they resort to the 'it is magic, we don't have to explain it' thing, you know something is a bit off.

The Show is also pretty gory at times, so be warned.

With all that said, I'm curious to see how it all plays out in the next 2 Seasons, regardless of how USA treated it...

A Show that has renewed my interest in the Chucky Franchise.  Let's see where it goes from here.