What will happen to the truckload of Good Guy dolls now that Andy is being held at gunpoint by the Tiffany doll en route to the airport? (Probably nothing good.) There are also just a few too many loose ends to make the final episode feel completely satisfying. It would be been welcome for the legacy characters of Andy, Kyle, and Nica to be given more to do, however, since it was an absolute delight whenever they popped up. Overall, Chucky delivers an engaging and truly insane finale in terms of both series mythology and characters. Though it wouldn't make the characters' lives any easier, it would be incredibly narratively juicy for Mancini and the rest of Team Chucky to run with this concept in the upcoming second season. It's a bold statement, and one that really works in the context of the series, the finale, and all the darkness and back-stabbing (literal and figurative) in between. Nica's guttural and horrified screams in the extremely nihilistic scene is perhaps the series' most chilling and gut-wrenching, especially given just how drastically Nica has suffered at the hands of Chucky in prior films.Īs Chucky and Tiffany's wrath continues to persist through Andy and Nica, it could be argued that franchise creator, Don Mancini, is making the statement that true malevolence can't be defeated, only temporarily halted and delayed, and that the battle of good versus evil is a constant and vicious one. She is giving herself the best of both worlds: playing into her own intense (and heartbreaking) fears of abandonment by the men in her life by keeping her new love close, while also ensuring that Chucky cannot harm her in the instances when he resumes control of Nica's body. Here, she's advocating for herself in a dark and twisted way. Tiffany has always been a character who has an unending need to be loved, adored, and for someone to be completely loyal to her. In an effort to prevent Nica from escaping, Tiffany has amputated Nica's arms and legs, showing that Tiffany has the capability to rival Chucky's penchant for extreme cruelty and manipulation, and it makes total sense. In their final scene together when Tiffany stares happily at a drugged Nica, it's only as she awakens from her stupor that she (and the audience) realizes what has been done to her. After a lifetime of being bossed around and mistreated by Chucky and his toxic masculinity, Tiffany realizes she likes having the gentler, feminine Nica around (especially when she's not possessed by Chucky). It makes sense for Chucky's master plan (and extreme narcissism) by creating an "army of me", but it's especially cold and depressing when you consider that Chucky's attempts to bond with the lonely and misunderstood teenagers of Hackensack - especially Jake, Junior, and even Lexy - were only a means to reach his eventual endgame.īut where the finale's character work really stands out in a unique way is in its development of Nica and Tiffany, whose arc is one of the series' (and finale's) high points. The only way to do that, Kyle explains, is for Chucky to successfully corrupt the innocence of a child, which is why he has been so hell-bent on stoking the rage within Jake and his friends and encouraging them to commit murder. It turns out that Chucky is intending to use a new voodoo spell to split his soul into multiple hosts in order to create an army of Charles Lee Ray-possessed Good Guy dolls (much like he did in Cult of Chucky). RELATED: 'Chucky' Review: A Weak Outing for the Classic Evil Doll But Jake and Lexy ( Alyvia Alyn Lind) are quickly intercepted by a warning-bearing Kyle ( Christine Elise) who provides some much-needed answers to the terrified teens by explaining the reason why Chucky has been interfering in their lives. The finale picks up where the penultimate episode left off with Andy Barclay ( Alex Vincent) arriving at Junior's ( Teo Briones) house to help Jake ( Zackary Arthur) kill Chucky once and for all. The first few episodes could be considered a slow burn but the latter half of the series amps up the pace, thrills, and body count.
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