Chucky Season 2 Promises More Chucky Than Ever

The second season of Syfy’s horror sequence Chucky kicked off with a bang this week. Showrunner/creator Don Mancini and the principle solid teased what’s to return at New York Comic Con at the moment: There will probably be oodles of trauma, new characters, and a cheeky homage to Jennifer Tilly’s 1996 crime thriller Bound in Episode 4.

Season 2 of Chucky picks up a number of months after the titular killer doll’s Hackensack rampage, and Jake (Zackary Arthur) resides with a brand new household following the ugly dying of his personal. After Jake’s youthful foster brother Gary actually explodes by the hands of Chucky, Jake, his now-boyfriend Devon (Björgvin Arnarson), and frenemy Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) are despatched to not jail, however Catholic college—which additionally occurs to be the boarding dwelling the place the franchise’s notorious Charles Lee Ray grew up. This location is the principle backdrop of Season 2, and Mancini says that he drew from his personal experiences of rising up homosexual and Catholic.

Season 2 can also be upping the ante by introducing a bunch of latest characters. Devon Sawa is returning to the solid as Father Bryce, a Catholic college priest who bears a hanging likeness to Jack’s father and uncle—each of whom died within the earlier season. “Keep watching,” Sawa mentioned when requested if the uncanny resemblance can be identified by any of the characters this season. Mancini additionally teased that Father Bryce would function the personification of some upcoming friction between Jake and Devon.

Lachlan Watson from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has joined the solid this season within the twin roles of Glen and Glenda Ray—Chucky’s twin kids first launched in Child’s Play and later referenced canonically within the present’s earlier season. Glen and Glenda will probably be working intently with Father Bryce and Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) this season with the twins’ motives primarily being to “stir shit up,” per Watson.

Bella Higginbotham will play Nadine, who’s launched within the season’s upcoming second episode. “I think she really is a very intelligent person,” Higginbotham mentioned of her character. “She wouldn’t trust people as far as she could throw them.” Nadine can also be a little bit of a kleptomaniac, which Higginbotham says will come up later within the season.

Returning characters are coping with their very own trajectories this spherical, following the fallout of Chucky’s first season. Mancini promised that Jake and Devon may have some battle, and that he couldn’t give the couple a cheerful ending simply but. Arnarson says that followers will probably be shocked at Devon’s newfound braveness since he “grew some balls.”

Meanwhile, Lexy will probably be turning to some darkish locations following the bloodbath on the Frankenstein screening final Halloween and feels utterly alone whereas coping with her terrible household. “This season we dive into the deeper trauma. The trauma below the trauma,” mentioned Lind.

The Chucky franchise has been kicking for many years, and Mancini has no indicators of stopping. Mancini teased his plans for the Chucky-verse, joking that he has an “inexhaustible supply of ideas” of the place he may take the killer doll and his tribulations in an online of linked codecs à la the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Mancini mentioned that he would like to proceed engaged on the sequence in addition to produce future movie installments and tv spinoffs—so long as the followers have an interest. “Please keep watching,” he requested.

Chucky is presently airing its second season each Wednesday on SyFy.

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