CHUCKY season 2 episodes 4 to 6

 

CHUCKY season 2 episodes 4 to 6 (really bad show now)

 

Merely in its 6^th episode out of 10, this season is a total wash. The first season was tense, shocking even and filled with great horror moments, action, and a realistic romance between two teenagers. The horror was well filmed, lit, and executed. The kills were often creative and interesting. Chucky was once again scary after those horrid last three boring campy films.

 

My only gripe with the first season was every scene Jennifer Tilly was in. She was far too campy and the storyline was just too easy to write and far from scary, though the killing of the man in broad daylight by his car was a bit shocking and unexpected. I tolerated Tilly and her nonsense as well as the whole Nica nonsense. But this second season, where we not only have an entire episode based around Tilly (and his sister and other actors playing themselves), it’s just too hard to tolerate and watch it. It feels like literal trash and is far too easy for writers to write.

 

I find it trashy and not scary or even creative as a horror show. I hate Tilly in this and most of the links to those last three movies which sucked IMO. I also find the writing bad and the lighting far too bright for a horror show.

 

 

Everything I liked about season one is reversed here.

 

The seriousness goes out the window for camp and over the top and unfunny irony and bad “jokes.” And did they really have to have Devon Sawa back as yet another character? I can take that Jake’s father and uncle looked like each other but the priest, too?

 

And the Catholic school setting, the Incarnate Lord, is cliché and boring where it could have been atmospheric, tense, and ironic.

 

 

The dialog is often stupid. In one ep, Devon and Lexy are following Chucky breadcrumbs which are body parts. She says, "Couldn't he have dropped pins instead?" WHAT?

 

Then they have a nun worship Chucky because she saw the doll rise. As for the new girl Nadine, she's as goofy as the Tilly characters and I loathe those two Chucky offspring, Glen and Glenda, both played by an actor that I loathe and think it talentless.

 

And instead of near believable bits of shadows, tension in the space between Chucky sightings, and horror as in season one, we have goofy. And boring kills now. He knives everyone other than the little boy that he gets blown up, something I could have done without seeing.

 

 

If you make Chucky a joke and a gimmick in every ep, every scene, the horror is curtailed. AND now the relationship between the two gay teenagers Devon and Jake is not even a  drawing point because it was fresh in season one and here it's a hand holding every ep to show they're gay and look we still want to focus on that somewhat. Jake has become a guest star in a show that he was the hero of.

 

I DO understand the need to try something different and giving us an army of Chuckys is scary but the potential that has is more apocalyptic than horrific and it strains credibility to make multiple Chuckys on the loose. Still, having a body builder Chucky, a bald Chucky and a “good” Chucky is a novel set of ideas, even if the most is NOT made out of those ideas. Some of it comes close however as “good” Chucky seems as if he can be trusted. But can he? I don’t even trust this series to use those great ideas well. Making many Chuckys further pushes the show into the realm of fantasy and less realistic fantastic horror about a shadowy almost unseen doll on the loose killing people. Making an army of the things, all fidgeting with each other sort of sends it into camp territory and is not scary in the least or even all that creative.

 

I don’t even care that Andy fell off a cliff (a bad move) and was presumed dead but is now found alive somehow and being tortured by a bald Chucky and then escapes with the help of Devon and Lexy. Oh, and if he doesn’t have enough nutcases helping him, the therapist, Dr. Mixter.

 

None of the human characters, evil or good, have any reality left in them, not even the three teens Lexy (who’s become a raging druggie), Devon (who’s become a raging whiner and goes against most things Jake wants to do), and Jake (who’s just mean now and insults everyone).

 

Trevor, a potential sneaky and bad guy that could have given the plot some forward thrust, is a bland wooden cliché bully who sneakily tries to make Lexy’s life a nightmare. Only she’s barely afraid of him and he gets killed off quickly and boringly. Lexy and Nadine use a rug to cover up blood spots from a clueless nun. Had Trevor survived, I would have loved to see him go up against Chucky armed with some knowledge. He might have still been killed but it would have been worth watching. As it played it, it was the most boring parts of both seasons.

 

An entire episode, the worst of this series and probably every TV series, is a murder mystery built around Tilly and her co stars from some boring older movie in real life. It is as if the actors and writers get together and thought about the cheapest way to make an episode without the teenagers and came up with this trashy POS. It’s unwatchable. Or maybe it’s so shockingly bad one can’t stop watching. Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, Meg Tilly, and others are trapped in the house with a murderer. What follows is a confused, boring and campy 42 minutes of sheer nonsense. None of it is scary. Added into the fray of this lazily written episode are Glen and Glenda, the actor playing them so shockingly bad in both parts, it has to be seen to be believed. None of it is scary and I don’t care about any of the characters.

 

For the most part, horror, at least for me relies on having characters I care about getting menaced and me hoping they can survive somehow, even against all odds. Some of them might and some of them might not, that’s the thrill of it as well as seeing something exhilaratingly supernatural that makes their lives worth preserving. I find that I didn’t care about any of the characters in the house that were locked in and I care even less about Nadine. I’m also starting to NOT care about Jake, Devon, and Lexy, all three so excellently written and acted in season one.   

 

I think it's become the worst show on TV and possibly the fastest show in the history of television that went from a great first season to an awful second season. They’ve totally lost me and I long for this awful show to be cancelled now. I don’t even see how they can redeem it and make it be any good now.