TV has gotten off to a strong start in 2024. Shōgunis legitimately fantastic, and the kind of weekly watercooler show we’ve been missing as a culture in a post-Game of Thronesworld. Delicious in Dungeonhas stolen my heart and my stomach. TV adaptations of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Gentlemen,and The Three-Body Problemwere all considerably better than I expected. And in the world of cape fiction, Invinciblehas continued its strong run, and the X-Men are back! Even with all that, the year in television is just starting. There are tons of exciting shows around the corner, like Park Chan-wook’s The Sympathizer, Prime Video’s Falloutshow, and new seasons of Evil, Taskmaster,Interview with the Vampire, andDoctor Who.
But reader, I’d be lying to you if I said there was any show I was more excited for than the return of Chucky.The show, created by Child’s Play franchise mastermind Don Mancini, has carried the mantle of the killer doll movies in the best way possible. It is deliriously funny, cartoonishly gory, winkingly over-the-top (Jennifer Tilly deserves many, many Emmys), and not afraid to delve into the deep recesses of its own canon. And despite its full commitment to campy excellence, Chucky remains criminally underwatched by my friends and peers. I implore you to rectify this and join me in the cult of Chucky.
After a completely deranged (complimentary) first half of the third season that saw Chucky in the freakin’ White House, the show returns for part two starting April 10 on USA Network and Syfy, with episodes streaming the next day on Peacock. The best way to sell you on Chucky is to let Chucky sell you on itself. So here is a real list of real things that have happened on the real television program Chucky.
I swear all of these things are real, and really happened in Chucky. The back half of the season promises even more gory antics, with a blood-soaked White House, John Waters with a gun, what looks to be a nuclear bomb detonation (Oppen-who???), and surely yet
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