No show has more fun than Chucky

TV is off to a strong start in 2024. Shogun is truly fantastic, and the kind of weekly water cooler show we’ve been missing as a culture in a post-Game of Thrones world. Wonderful in the dungeon stole my heart and my stomach. TV adaptations of Mr and Mrs Smith, The gentlemen, And The three-body problem were all significantly better than I expected. And in the world of cape fiction, Invincible has continued its strong run and the X-Men are back! Despite all that, the television year has only just begun. There are plenty of exciting shows around the corner, such as Park Chan-wook’s The sympathizerPrime Videos Fallout show, and new seasons of Evil, Taskmaster, interview with the vampireAnd Doctor who.

But reader, I’d be lying to you if I said there was a show I was looking forward to more than its return Chucky. Created by Don Mancini, the mastermind of the Child’s Play franchise, the show has carried the mantle of killer puppet films in the best way possible. It’s deliriously funny, cartoonishly gory, winkingly over-the-top (Jennifer Tilly deserves many, many Emmys), and unafraid to delve into the deep recesses of its own canon. And despite its complete dedication to campy excellence, Chucky remains criminally under-monitored by my friends and colleagues. I beg you to put this right and join me in the cult of Chucky.

After a completely insane (free) first half of the third season that featured Chucky in the crazy 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 resell you Chucky is to let go Chucky you sell on its own. So here is a real list of real things that happened on the real television show Chucky.

• A nun, who believed Chucky was Jesus, washed his little doll feet
• Devon Sawa has played four different characters, almost all of whom were killed by Chucky
• Chucky killed WWE superstar Liv Morgan on live TV after she said on a podcast that it was her ‘dream’ to be killed by him
• Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Tilly, whose body was swapped with a doll, was charged with 103 murders
• Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon confirmed theirs Be bound to relationship is basically text for their real life
• While comforting a strange child being bullied by his father, Chucky said he loves his “genda-flagged” child – after all, he is a murderer and not a monster.
• A super tense Chucky literally punched a hole through a bully

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• Episode titles include: ‘Little Little Lies’, ‘Cape Queer’, ‘An Affair to Dismember’, ‘Death on Denial’, ‘Jennifer’s Body’
• An intervention for Jennifer Tilly turned into a murder mystery fest with real murder
• The three seasons are set respectively in a small New Jersey town, a Catholic reform school, and the White House (because it is canonically the most evil house in America).
• Each season ends with a fireside chat in which Chucky recaps all the murders that season. Season 2 is a rendition of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’.
• There have been multiple holiday specials, including a Christmas episode called “Chucky Actually”
• Fiona Dourif, daughter of Chucky voice actor Brad Dourif, plays Brad’s character Charles Lee Ray in flashbacks, with Brad’s voice dubbed over her
• Chucky was starting to age quickly, so he wore one ghost of the opera mask to protect his ego
• A housekeeper died from a dishwasher
• SNL cast members Kenan Thompson and Sarah Sherman guest-starred and died in ridiculously gory ways; you will never look at an umbrella the same way

I swear all these things are real and really happened Chucky. The back half of the season promises even more bloody antics, with a blood-soaked White House, John Waters with a gun, what looks like the explosion of an atomic bomb (Oppen-who???), and definitely another Devon Sawa murder on the way. My sincere hope is that it has changed you too Chucky fidelity.

Chucky season 3 returns for part two starting April 10 on USA Network and Syfy, with episodes streaming the next day on Peacock.