Chucky TV series Season One Recap

PLOT: In this coming of rage story, Jake, a teenager, picks up a Good Guy doll at a yard sale not realizing that the doll is possessed.

The first season of Chucky has come to an end with a thrilling finale, complete with all the ingredients that make the Chucky series so popular.

There are humorous dialogues, some old faces from the Chucky movies, a lot of stabbings, and a lot of Chucky.

The series begins with the introduction of teenagers into the Chucky universe.

There's Jake, who has an obsession with building sculptures made of doll heads that his father highly disapproves of.

There's his cousin Junior who dislikes his cousin Jake because he thinks all the disharmony in his house is linked to him after Jake's father dies and Jake moves into the house.

There's Lexy, the popular girl who likes to pick on Jake.

And then there's Devon, a boy whose mother is a police detective. Devon has his own podcast about serial killers and everything horror. Jake has a huge crush on him.

CHUCKY: QUICK RECAP OF SEASON 1

When Jake inadvertently picks up a murderous doll at a yard sale,  his life takes an unexpected turn when he learns that the doll can talk. He receives a call from a man who asks him to check the doll's back for batteries. The doll is obviously Chucky. Of course, the doll doesn't have batteries. Jake is shocked but since he's lonely and unappreciated by his father, he befriends Chucky despite his coarse language.

When Chucky electrocutes Jake's father, he has mixed feelings because Jake did dislike his father although he now never gets a chance to fix the relationship.

He is taken in by Junior's family who isn't too happy to have Jake around. Still, he feels bad when his girlfriend Lexy makes fun of Jake's father.

At the Halloween party, Lexy dresses up as Jake's father and pretends to dance around as if being electrocuted.

This makes Jake consider Chucky's suggestion to kill Lexy. He tries, but Jake simply doesn't have it in him to be a killer. Chucky gets frustrated and the urge to kill has risen in him.

He convinces Jake to let him do the killing. So when Lexy's sister Caroline demands she gets Chucky after seeing him at the talent show, Lexy comes over to Jake's house, apologizes for being mean to him and asks for the doll. Jake initially refuses but then gives in to Chucky's plan and lets Lexy take him.

Caroline is one of the few so far who knows Chucky can actually talk. Chucky wastes no time in getting up to his schemes. So when Lexy throws a party when her parents are out,  Chucky puts his plan in motion.

He thinks he's attacking Lexy as she comes out of a door, only it is Oliver, one of the classmates. Chucky is bored, and so he kills Jim.

While Lexy is busy smoking,  Chucky attacks her and tries to strangle her. Lexy is shocked to discover her sister's toy is trying to kill her. She lets go of her cigarette which rolls over near the curtains and starts a fire. Downstairs, Lexy's classmates, including Devon who doesn't like Lexy too much, is dancing with headphones on. No one hears the explosion or the fire spreading. Lexy manages to get away just barely.

Jake is consumed with guilt when he visits all his classmates at the hospital. He is relieved that Junior and Devon are okay.

Devon's mother tells him that Oliver didn't die in the fire, but was stabbed several times. She expects her son to keep it quiet but of course, he relays that information to Jake who knows Chucky was behind it.

Lexy confronts Jake about the doll and he is forced to admit that it was him that sent Chucky to kill her. Lexy is shocked and wants nothing to do with him. She goes to check on Caroline who is in the ICU but gets further distraught when her parents reprimand her for being irresponsible and burning down the house and causing her sister to end up attached to the ventilator.

Lexy tries to tell them the truth but no one listens. She goes to Jake and tells him she will need his help to get Chucky out of her life. They go to her house and Lexy falls down when she gets into an argument about Jake who calls her out on being a bad person.

Chucky comes over, half his face burned over and urges Jake to kill who finally yells that he isn't a killer. Chucky decides to finish the job himself and tries to stab Lexy as she's hanging. But he's too short and Jake is strong enough to pull Lexy over right on time.

A police detective arrives, and Chucky returns to his doll phase. The Detective informs Jake and Lexy that  Caroline has requested for the doll and takes her away. The kids follow the Detective but are too late.

The Detective sets the doll on the table and begins to munch on the snacks sent to Caroline. Chucky doesn't appreciate the Detective indulging in snacks that don't belong to him and stabs him several times with injections left carelessly out by the staff at the hospital.

Jake and Lexy meet up with Devon and the trio rush over to the ICU when the alarm goes off. Someone has unplugged a machine in Caroline's room and when the nurse plugs it back in, she screams when she finds the detective's body.

It seems actors in horror movies and TV shows are hired based on how well they can scream.

Later, when Caroline wakes up and demands to see Chucky, her father reluctantly shows her the half-burned Chucky and she screams. Chucky is unceremoniously chucked into the chute.

The three friends go and search for Chucky in the garbage bins but can't find him.

In the meantime, a new good guy doll has already been ordered for Caroline and Lexy is shocked to discover there are more dolls like Chucky. He speaks in a doll voice that his name is Tommy. Lexy beats him up much to her family's displeasure, but the doll doesn't retaliate. Satisfied the doll isn't  Chucky, she calls her new friends over while keeping her boyfriend Junior in the dark because she wants to protect him, and of course, she doesn't think he would believe her.

They wonder what is going on and research the doll while Chucky decides to transfer his soul into the new Tommy doll.  Caroline's father finds the disfigured good guy doll on the floor and throws it in the dustbin. Lexy notices it and stands guard by the bins while Jake and Devon come over.

Once they do, they beat up Chucky and are pleased to find him beaten. They think they've already gotten rid of  Chucky once and for all.

In the meantime, we get to see flashbacks and the origin story of Chucky. He was a kid when an intruder breaks into the house and kills his father. As Charles (Chucky's real name) hides with his mother in the closet, the intruder comes in opens the closet and finds the mother already dead. Charles has killed her. The intruder smirks and commends Charles for having guts.

Charles then goes on killing sprees, picking up girls at bars and then killing them when he finally meets a redhead called Tiffany who is as violent as he is. He asks her to change her hair colour while she thinks he should go by Chucky, his nickname.

It is then explained that in one of the movie instalments, Chucky had broken his soul into pieces are transferred them into different dolls that only need a chant to awaken. One of the pieces is in Nica, a paraplegic girl whose family was killed by Chucky although the blame had fallen on her and she was institutionalised.

She now roams around with Tiffany who transferred her soul into actress Jennifer Tilly.

A lot of soul transfers going on in here.

Anyway, Nica surfaces when she sees blood, although how she turns back to Chucky is a bit unclear.

Andy, from the first Chucky movie, and Kyle, his Foster sister, know about all of this and are on the hunt to destroy all good guy dolls.

They think the only one left is Nica and one other doll in Jake's possession. At the petrol station, Andy dumps Kyle and heads off alone, possible wanting to protect her.

In the meantime, Chucky has an agenda of his own. He wants to get one of the kids to kill so he instigates them by killing off their parents.

Junior's mother has cancer and reveals to her therapist that she is refusing treatment because she doesn't want to put her family through the agony. The next instant she's standing by the wall to floor window when Chucky comes along with a trolley and lets it roll over towards her. She falls off the window, right on her own car, facing Junior.

The next one on the list is Devon's mother. While Lexy, Jake and Devon had set up a trap, they obviously fail against an experienced, and cunning killer Chucky. Surprisingly though, he doesn't attack the kids but heads down to push Devon's mother off the staircase after placing a distress call to her.

After her death, Devon wants to end his relationship with Jake and start anew in another town. Jake is heartbroken and plans to do the same.

At the funeral, Tiffany makes a public display of kissing Junior's father which enrages Junior. He decides to become allies with Chucky and after being provoked, bashes his father's head in with Chucky who giggles at being used as a weapon.

Devon is packing when he decides to do some investigation at Charles' childhood home that his mother was looking into. He finds Nica there who after being untied, turns into Chucky and traps Devon.

Jake is in the process of running away when he sees a courier carrying a good guy doll. He buys it off the courier guy and takes the address.

He heads straight to Lexy because Devon has expressed at how he doesn't want anything to do with this whole Chucky thing.

The doll doesn't respond while Lexy looks up the address to where the doll was being delivered. Jake also tracks Devon's phone and finds it to be at the same address: Charles' childhood home.

It is then that the doll awakens after Junior has killed his father and Chucky has performed the ritual. But Kyle comes at the last minute to shoot him.

Meanwhile, Devon is shocked to see an army of Chuckys and also Junior in cahoots with Tiffany and Chucky.

Tiffany is in love with Nica now as she feels she appreciates her more. She cuts off Chucky's neck after revealing that she called the cops on him in the first part because he began killing without her, and then injects Nica so she falls unconscious.

Tiffany leaves a booby trap at the house after packing away the other dolls that will be distributed all over the world later. The Boobytrap is apparently gifted to her by her child Glenda.

Andy somehow manages to come without using the front door to perform some heroics and rescue Devon but fails to warn Kyle on time who opens the door.

There is an explosion.

Jake and Lexy were drugged by Kyle who didn't want the kids involved. They wake up in the morning to see online that the house has blown up and that Devon is possibly dead.

CHUCKY ENDING EXPLAINED

Meanwhile, Lexy's mother, who is also a mayor has set up an event of a movie night where the proceeds will go to charity.

Jake is at Devon's house, mourning his death when Devon arrives, unscathed. The two decide to resume their relationship.

Lexy is at the event when Tiffany arrives and promises that the good guy dolls will be sent all over. She gifts one to Caroline who insists she has one.

Lexy is lured by Junior and Chucky. Chucky urges Junior to kill Lexy but he can't. He's too much in love with her.

In the meantime, Chucky is stabbing everyone at the theatre while they watch movies. The mayor's husband too.

In a weirdly ridiculous scene, the mayor is seen eating popcorn that her husband has bled over and it takes her several seconds to realize the flavour isn't melted butter but fresh blood. She screams.

In the meantime, Junior attacks Chucky behind the screen and stabs him but is, in turn, stabbed too. He dies.

Jake kills Chucky after the doll reveals he has powers gifted to him by an evil entity which is why even though he's a toy, he's strong. Somehow Jake manages to overpower him. How he does so would probably be explained next season. Another god, perhaps?

The rest are saved but the three friends mourn the death of Junior. As Tiffany waves to the delivery truck driver carrying the dolls, Andy, who miraculously survived the explosion, throws the driver out and drives away with the truck, causing Tiffany to cry out in frustration.

Nica wakes up to find her limbs cut off because Tiffany can't bother with taking the trouble to figure out whether she is Chucky or Nica, all the time. Nica screams.

Andy is driving when the doll version of Tiffany pulls a gun on him and insists he does as she says.

CHUCKY SEASON 2 PREDICTIONS

Season two will answer a lot of questions and possibly include bits of mythology to explain the gods that give powers to Chucky and perhaps even Jake.

Here are some predictions:

Nica would probably get some prosthetics or perhaps Chucky will perform another voodoo ritual that will grant her the power to regrow her limbs.

Andy is held at gunpoint by Tiffany but no doubt he will outsmart her although I don't think he will be able to get rid of the Chucky dolls. They seem an integral part of the show somehow.

The trio will remain friends and Lexy would probably get a new love interest who she will try to protect at any cost.

Chucky will increase his kill count no doubt. That is what he is known for after all.

Kyle probably also survived the explosion. Hopefully, she will get more screen time next season.

All in all, Chucky is an entertaining show. The writing may not be the best, especially where the last episode was concerned, but Chucky being his witty self makes up for it.

The acting too is just decent, but the story was interesting and definitely adds to the Chucky universe. The pace is solid for a TV show that doesn't indulge in long, unnecessary scenes. This is especially important in a horror TV show.

A lot of things happen too conveniently in the last two episodes, for example, Andy and Kyle popping in at the exact moment the kids get into trouble.

Devon was in the process of climbing out. The explosion would have left him with some injuries even if he had been quick to get out.

There needed to be an explanation in this season itself as to why Jake was able to fend off Chucky with supernatural powers. How did he do it exactly?

Where are Jake and Devon going to live now? None of them has guardians or parents. Devon has stated that his aunt can't take care of him forever.

So where are these two going to live?

Season two will probably explain that.

Can't wait for the next season!

Check out Chucky Season One on Prime Video