Murder at 1600

I'm supposed to believe they didn't X-ray an animatronic doll before it was brought into the White House? I'm supposed to believe that top-notch forensics weren't performed on a body found at the White House? Newsflash: if a gun is found loosely placed in a blood-soaked hand, but the finger is not on the trigger, that would immediately tell everyone it wasn't suicide for two reasons: your hand doesn't change positions when you're dead, and there can't be blood on your palm under the gun if you were holding it! Pretty basic, people!

I've been a fan of the Child's Play series since the original, so I'm willing to suspend my disbelief and make room for a little bit of cheesiness... but this has been one of laziest, most implausible, and frankly poorly directed things on television. I've tried to overlook things over the seasons-from a body falling backwards out a window but then landing face down, to characters magically having phone numbers without explanation... the writers seem to type this stuff in a rush in the middle of the night and then quickly film it the next day without considering all the holes in the plot and/or direction. Everything is so very convenient and coincidental that it's pretty hard to swallow. Characters jump to conclusions which make no sense, and often times they're shoehorned into scenarios that wouldn't happen in reality, because in this world police don't follow protocols. Or doctors. Or teachers. Or any adult, really.

To make matters worse, I can't figure out who the target audience is. It's too unintelligent and juvenile to be for adults, but then it's way too violent for kids.

None of the original movies were this lazy. Even the more recent ones had minor flaws at best, but were still enjoyable without me feeling the need to skewer them. Jennifer Tilly has been the best thing about this series and to their credit, the only decent, sensible plot lines focused on her. It's as if they ran out of steam whenever they weren't writing her material. I expect the creative team to apply a little bit of common sense. What I'm witnessing is poor workmanship all around, and you can't pass it off as the genre.

I've been a fan of Chucky for many years and the character has been around so long that I'm not sure why Don Mancini feels the need to keep dragging out the story and making it a slow burn. We know who Chucky is and what he's a capable of. No need to keep focusing on the Good Guy doll version of himself like we still don't know what he's all about. I'm hoping this season also changes the clichés of the first two seasons. The show is unfortunately starting to feel extremely repetitive now. I'm sure the show will pick some steam this season, but like I said, there's no need to keep having a slow burn start when the character has been around for so many years and so many movies/seasons. Just get the action going.

Although there are some low scores for the 3rd season initial episode, like my title says, race cars do a lap before the start flag gets waved and the pace car gets out of the way. This episode is slow, but I can sense that this will pick up very soon. Give this a chance, as it does work in terms of setting the foundation and building this story up. Especially being in the White House, where everything is a formality in there, so the belief of the existence of a killer doll belongs in the National Enquirer and not fact in that world. We needed to establish the protagonists are since we all know the antagonist. So we will have to tune and see how all the pieces fit together. I quite enjoyed it.

Oof where do I begin with this, I don't even know.

I really enjoy the Chucky franchise, and up until this point I have liked and had fun with the Chucky TV Series.

But this episode felt like a complete and utter joke. It doesn't even feel like the same show anymore, in fact it doesn't even feel like a professionally made piece of media whatsoever.

Every writing decision here was completely and entirely bizarre. There is no logic behind any character decision whatsoever or plot decision in here. The suspension of disbelief for Chucky has finally been broken with just serious plot holes and bizarre character choices here.

Some of the characters that have been bordering on cringe have fallen off the cliff with this episode.

I'm even bored with Chucky himself and they have finally stretched the 'no one believes me' and 'trying to convince people its real' plot line for far far to long and I physically felt the elastic band, that they have been pulling for over 30 years, snap.

This felt so lazy and disjointed it was actually painful to watch, which I have never felt with a Chucky or Child's Play film or episode before. Genuinely made me want to quit the show. I will continue and hope it gets better however, but my god the quality drop has been fast and harsh.

I'll admit that I did let out quite a chuckle when Devon Sawa again reappeared and then as the president, it is quite the funny bit.

But it's just so nonsencical at this point it's really turning people off to the show. The whole thing with that secret service agent I think is one of the real kickers in nonsensical bad writing.

Yh this just doesn't feel like a fluid continuation of the Chucky Series.

This episode was a very good way to start off Season 3! It seems like this will start off what looks like the best season in the entire series. It has a great atmosphere now in the White House, it has a good shocking kill that will catch you off guard. The animatronic work for Chucky is once again great and has one of the best designs for him, same goes for the White House. Jake, Devon, Lexy, and Ms. Fairchild are back! The kids are improving at acting (not that they were ever bad), the new actors also did a good job too. I highly recommend this show and if you think this show is bad, your just wrong.