Stars: Lexa Doig, Brad Dourif, Devon Sawa
I was both looking forwards to this and dreading it. The reason for this being it's a straight up continuation of the Child's play films, the original ones. But it's also SyFy channel and they have a thing about not being that good. Not only that it was a kid centric role and also well you know how things can get these days, a foul mouthed man doll might not be looked upon kindly.
BD comes back to voice the eccentric killer doll too which is good. I didn't realise until the end that the guy playing (two roles) the dads was Devon Sawa too, he looks so different from Final Destination days.
Now let get onto the things that I didn't like. Now i'm not to hot on how small town american places are but is that really how backwards they are with sexuality?
If so give what i'm about to mention here a pass, the main boy is blatantly gay but he's bullied and the attitude of nearly everyone is like nineties backwards. Like I said I don't know if this is the norm in this situation or just if it's written in that way to inflame the situation.
BUT this is where it comes into it's own though as everything is pivotal on that, When he buys Chucky from a garden sale he's wimpy by even the end of the first episode he's gaining confidence after Chucky, for some unknown reason at the moment is helping him. Albeit it in his own twisted way.
From showing his bullying father a thing or two, to showing up the bitchy, bullying schoolgirl too in a most amusing ventriloquist act. It does culminate into something I rather enjoyed from the second half, if it keeps that up it'll be a winner for me.
THN awards Ep1 a strong 3 out of 5 so far
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