Winter's Cumin' Streaming 24' - Chucky - Season Three

Chucky continues as the eighth main instalment of the Child's Play franchise. Serving as a sequel to Cult of Chucky, the seventh film in the franchise, and stars Brad Dourif reprising his role as the voice of the title character.

Starring across the two-part season are regulars, Zackary Arthur, Björgvin Arnarson, Alyvia Alyn Lind,  and Devon Sawa. Yes Sawa returns (again) this season, as the fictional President of the United States (his fourth character in the franchise). While Lara Jean Chorostecki joins the series, playing the President's wife, while Comedian Kenan Thompson guest stars in the third episode of this season, playing a taxi driver who soon gets killed by Chucky with an umbrella. 

Back in January 2023, the series was renewed for a third season. Due to all the Hollywood labour strikes, the series was spilt into two four episode blocks. We saw the first four back in October last year. With the second half commencing mid-April. While concluding this past week.

Like American Horror Story that came before it and The Chi coming soon, these spilt seasons, really lose momentum.

So warning! Spoilers about the weird ass season three finale below. Note the series hasn't been renewed for a fourth season yet. After seeing the finale, I really feel Chucky should depart the small screen, maybe do one more big screen number.

Is episode eight's title a nod to Devon Sawa or also a statement about the series concluding? It's called Final Destination!

In episode eight, Jake wakes up on the other side, he finds his dad's spirit destroying his doll sculpture with a bat. Lucas chases him when he learns of his boyfriend but Jake tells him he forgives him for what he did. 

He finds the spirit of Charles who takes him to the White House's movie theatre, where all of his different soul fragments are inside watching different scenes of Chucky's life. While Charles argues with his younger self, Jake notices Good Chucky running out of the movie theatre. 

He follows after him to the president's bedroom, where Good Chucky tells Jake that Caroline is safe with a man named Wendell Wilkins. Taking a knife out from under the blankets, Jake explains that to forgive what he did in Season 2 (killing Nadine), Good Chucky must sacrifice himself. 

Before he can convince him, the other fragments of Chucky's soul enter the bedroom, trying to convince Good Chucky not to go through with it. Although Jake believes he's gotten through to Good Chucky, he soon realizes that all the Chuckys were distracting him so Chucky Prime could possess Jake's body.

Meanwhile in Texas, just as the needle is inserted into her arm, one of the prison guards Tiffany brainwashed rushes in and frees her from the table and she is escorted out with the help of the other brainwashed guards. Nica tries to follow after her but is knocked down. Tiffany escapes driving off in her getaway car.

Back at the White House, Devon counts down the minutes until he can wake up Jake. During this Pryce and the other agents set up various bombs to go off in one minute. With the five minutes up, Devon brings Jake back from the Spirit Realm, unaware that he is possessed by Chucky. 

Jake lies, telling them all that he killed Chucky, and that he knows where Caroline is being held. At that same moment, the CIA's bombs go off and explode throughout the White House. 

Devon, Lexy, and Grant make it down the staircase but Jake and Timmy are trapped upstairs. The two of them get on the elevator, allowing Chucky to beat Timmy to death. Devon and Lexy escape from the building as Grant locks Pryce in the White House, leaving him to die. Charlotte arrives just as Grant escapes, hugging him. 

Devon and Lexy are soon reunited with Jake, who leads them to Wendell Wilkin's address. At the house, they discover that he is a doll maker and he created the Good Guy dolls. He shows them the prototype Good Guy doll he created in 1987, divulging that the Good Guy dolls bankrupted him after the murders started. 

But a few weeks earlier, a new child, Caroline, came into his life to show him the beauty of what Chucky had done. Chucky then reveals himself to Devon and Lexy, and with Caroline's help, he transfers his soul back to the Good Guy doll. Wendell and Caroline then reveal that they're going to transfer their souls into marionette dolls.

Tiffany meets up with Chucky who expresses that she wishes they could be a real family again, when Wendell reveals that they have a prototype Wedding Belle doll waiting for her to possess. 

Caroline transfers her soul into the doll, allowing Chucky and Tiffany to reunite. With the dolls in the backseat, Caroline drives away in Tiffany's car. As Caroline drives away, Nica wheels herself into Wendell's estate, leaving the front door open. 

Hearing muffled screams coming from a display cabinet, she discovers the trio's fate. Just then, Nica screams as Wendell approaches her from behind. Chucky is shown in a burning White House announcing his candidacy for a fourth term. Is this a random ass call for USA Network and Syfy to renew series?

As I said earlier, I would be surprised if the series comes back for a fourth run. I mean how many different characters can Devon Sawa return as? Also I read something about a potential fourth season being based in space, WTF?