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0. Chucky: Season 2 (TV Series) (Peacock)

So I actually finished this one sooner than I intended. So this gets the 0 spot.

If you remember, I gave Chucky Season 1 a 9/10 last year. My basic summary of it was that it's easily the best Child's Play/Chucky thing that's ever been put out. It was a complete surprise just how good it was, and I highly recommended anyone watch it, because it somehow takes all the lore of the previous movies and then continues it in a satisfying way, and it takes a good mix of the goofy Chucky movies and the serious ones.

That in mind, I'd like to maintain that Chucky Season 2 is actually incredible still. Completely blew away my already high expectations.

In this season, after the carnage of the first season, the survivors all get terrorized by Chucky and end up in a church that acts as a boarding school for at-risk youths. And, of course, Chucky follows them there to enact another plan. A different setting than we had last season, which felt a lot more simple, but it's a setting that is welcome. It keeps everything fresh with a new group of characters.

Devon Sawa returns in this season as the head of the church, and he does a blow away job. And the kids make a new friend in Bella Higginbotham as Nadine. And they really help round out the cast in this season and really manages to help flesh out our main cast, who goes through various personal issues, outside of a killer doll ready to murder them again.

However, this isn't our only major story. Tiffany Valentine, who has possessed Jennifer Tilly, played by Jennifer Tilly, picks up where the last season left her with Fiona Dourif's Nica Pierce and their story. And somehow, someway, they manage to bring back the kid(s) from the ending of Seed of Chucky, a movie so reviled by much of the fanbase, and they manage to do a tremendous job with them. Tiffany's life is breaking apart while she's pretending to be Jennifer Tilly, and this story may feel like a B story a lot of the time, but they dedicate an entire episode to just Tiffany without Chucky and the others involved (mostly).

You can probably tell I have a glowing review of the plot. It all weaves together masterfully with twists and turns and insanity, and it all feels compelling, and you care about these characters, even when a lot of this stuff is frankly crazy.

But even better than all of that? This show is hilarious still. Just funny as hell. And they don't hold back with the gore at all either. Just a bloody, grisly mess that the movies could never do. It's honestly freaking wild to see what they got away with in this TV show. Amusingly, Chucky even mentions at one point that the studio allows them to say "Fuck" 10 times in an episode. They gave them the freedom with this show after the first season and Don Mancini ran away with it and created something even more expansive and crazy.

And I said it last year, but it bears repeating that this show has by far some of the best LGBTQ representation in it. Especially with the inclusion of Lachlan Watson as Glen and Glenda.

So I greatly recommend Chucky. It's absolutely a show worth going out of your way to watch. This next season starts this month, so there's still plenty of time to catch up and follow along! You won't regret it!

Rating: 9.5/10