To quote Jason Momoa as Aquaman: “This is gonna be fun!” Yes, the series is off to a great start. A punchy script and mostly solid acting (solid from all the principal players) support a narrative loaded with characters you mostly hate and want Chucky to kill. (Sadly the homicidal little monster only takes out the abusive father in the premiere, but we can feel confident that Chucky will get around to the others as the show progresses.)
You might think that after…how many CHILD’S PLAY movies have there been now? So many that I’ve actually forgotten, that’s how many, some good, some okay, and some, um, anyway, you might think that creator Don Mancini had mined all the gold there was to find from this series. If asked, I might well have said as much. But that was before watching this premiere episode of what promises to be a wildly entertaining series. It turns out all Chucky needed was a change of format. Who woulda thunk it? The little guy was made for the TV.
Set a couple of weeks after the events depicted in CULT OF CHUCKY, the show even promises to reveal Chucky’s secret origin. What terrible causative agent lurks in the childhood of Charles Lee Ray that turned him into a serial killer, long before he soul-jumped into that Good Guys doll? If we keep watching, I bet we find out!