Murder at 1600

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.

As I said in the previous season finale, jake devon and lexi ARE BORING THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALIVE, they are teenagers, they can't do anything they are doing, it's silly to expect people to see traumatized teenagers willing to enter the white house for "revenge" because that is neither coherent nor realistic, just as it's NOT realistic how THEY ARE STILL ALIVE and look I liked everything about the new kid and the secret service, but seriously, even secret service people die and not Jake, Devon or Lexi? ...

Anyway, the 7 stars are because FINALLY we start the chapter with a new protagonist and a new place, I just hope I don't get too disappointed if in the following chapters Devon, Lexi or Jake are still alive...

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.