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Positive:
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Critic Reviews
Oct 2, 2023
Season 3 Review:
In only four episodes, Chucky season three cements itself as the show’s best yet, leaving us holding our breath for the back half in 2024. It’s unforgivingly savage with its massacres and one-liners, dropping perfect pop-culture references (Twin Peaks, Austin Butler’s Elvis accent, The Amityville Horror, and Outer Banks, to name a few) along the way.
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Oct 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Chucky walks a fascinating tonal tightrope as a funny, absurd series that engenders sympathy as well as shock for characters who are more than worthy of our derision. It creates a world of malleable, alienated kids failed to varying degrees by their parents, and then it expresses the danger of what they find once they’re pushed away.
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iDec 3, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The people making Chucky don’t appear to be losing sleep over such technicalities as “what happens” or “how much sense it makes”, but if you can allow yourself to sink into its campy-gory teenage nonsense, then it sweeps you away on a tide of vulgarity and escapism.
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The Daily BeastOct 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Like Starz’s similarly lighthearted Ash vs Evil Dead, Chucky works because it’s reverential and yet not consumed with rehashing that which came before. It won’t win over many new converts, but anyone with a soft spot for the cheery maniac doll will no doubt get a kick out of his latest reign of terror.
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Oct 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Frankly, this Chucky series makes plenty of good decisions when it comes to tone, walking a very fine line between self-awareness and self-consciousness in its storytelling—it knows what it is, but it’s not meta. The show is fully ridiculous, but it’s not trying to be anything else. It’s also creepy and gory and a slashin’ good time.
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Oct 3, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Just two episodes were provided for critics pre-air, but already Chucky is telling an interesting, somewhat cohesive story built on the franchise’s strong points. Season two is unlikely to draw many new fans, but for the faithful, one of the best spooky shows on TV has stepped up its game.
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Oct 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There are hints that Syfy and USA’s Chucky might eventually get into the twisty and bizarrely meta world of the extended Child’s Play universe (I truly didn’t know that a movie called Cult of Chucky existed). But through the four episodes sent to critics, it tends, agreeably, toward the simple side of things. ... Honestly, anybody tuning in to Chucky is there for the doll. In that respect, the series delivers solidly.
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Oct 7, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Does it make much sense? No. But it’s fun to see it play out with a mischievous sense of anything-goes silliness. Mancini and Dourif have been doing this for so long, they seem to have nailed down an understanding of what makes Chucky fun. And when Chucky [the series] follows suit, it is too.
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Oct 7, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Making Jake gay, a reflection of openly gay “Child’s Play” creator and “Chucky” writer/director Don Mancini, offers an admirably different perspective for a horror franchise – but viewers will need to buy into the teen drama to appreciate this iteration of “Chucky.”
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