The Syfy series Chucky, created by franchise father Don Mancini, is a delight for fans of the Child's Play movies. The TV show manages to feel like the perfect combination of what worked in the film's various incarnations. This includes the characters, most of whom are unique but certainly, all aren't likable.
From the adult characters to the series lead Jake Wheeler's teenage cohorts, some characters in Chucky are so unlikable it seems they won't make it to the final episode. Sometimes this ends up being true, while other times people are more decent than they initially appear.
10 Tiffany Valentine (Jennifer Tilly)
The best TV shows like Chucky have reverence for the past, and in this regard, the Child's Play series excels. Like other installments with Tiffany in a prominent role, the dialogue mentions actor Jennifer Tilly by name.
This is the most likable aspect of the character in Chucky. By this point, Tiffany has done all she can outside of doll form. However, Tilly's willingness to poke fun at herself is great fun, and lines like "Aren't you a little young to have seen Bound?" deliver some of the series many laughs. With that being said, Chucky's future looks particularly bright for this character.
9 Ms. Rachel Fairchild (Annie Briggs)
One of Chucky's smartest characters is also one of its most likable. Biology teacher Ms. Fairchild is a charming presence during the classroom scenes. She seems like she cares for her students more than anything else, and is genuinely put out by Detective Evans's attempt to question one of them (Jake).
Furthermore, the scene where she chastises Lexy Cross for her cruelty immediately makes her endearing. Fairchild is essentially removed from the latter half of the season, but there's a possibility that more will be seen from her down the line.
8 Devon Evans (Björgvin Arnarson)
Jake Wheeler's classmate and boyfriend, Devon Evans, has one of the more interesting personalities of the show. He's incredibly bright and relatively reserved, but he's also popular and sociable.
There's nothing about Devon that makes him unlikeable. However, the show has him tied up in a chair for a while, so perhaps season 2 can explore his likable merits to a greater extent. Regardless, there are moments in Chucky's 8 episodes when he'll put a hand on Jake's shoulder and let him know it will be alright. Those well-acted moments are what make Chucky a cut above its contemporaries.
7 Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif)
Just as the Child's Play series managed to connect to other horror movies, Chucky incorporates characters from all throughout the franchise's history.
This includes Nica Pierce from Curse of Chucky and Cult of Chucky. Easily the best addition to the franchise since Tiffany, Pierce is a character unlike any in the series before. She's possessed by Chucky (essentially serving as just one of several vessels) but intermittently flips back to her true self. It's an interesting angle, and again Fiona Dourif's performance is a high point.
6 Caroline Cross (Carina London Battrick)
Caroline Cross doesn't say much throughout Chucky's first season, but she makes a substantial impression. She's like Chucky's proving ground to see how hard it is to sway a child to commit murder. Caroline's not the one to do it, as she's gifted in a way that the show never specifies. Even initiating a conversation is a difficult task.
Perhaps this is why Caroline is so likable. She just keeps to herself and doesn't bat an eye when her own sister is outright nasty to her. If there's any character who should prove interesting down the line, Lexy's younger sister (and mother) is it.
5 Andy Barclay & Kyle
Two of Chucky's strongest enemies make an excellent comeback in the series. Initially posing as census takers, the two soon reveal themselves as Chucky assassins. They've been tracking down and eliminating every variant of Chucky with Lee Ray's soul.
Them devoting their lives to stopping evil is already something worth admiring and appreciating. The fact that they can do it bickering like flesh and blood siblings (which they might as well be) just makes them all the easier to watch.
4 Lexy Cross (Alyvia Alyn Lind)
Not everything is known about Chucky's lead characters in its first episode. People are not who they seem, and the show does a great job of establishing new characters with far more depth than in standard "slasher" fare, even of the A-List variety.
The best example of this is Lexy Cross, who is outright insufferable in the first two (arguably three) episodes. In time she reveals her true character, which is just that of a scared teenager in a big world. Some of Lexy's actions, like dressing up as a classmate's dead father for Halloween, were incredibly over the line, but she makes up for it by season's end.
3 Bree Wheeler (Lexa Doig)
Bree Wheeler's death hits the hardest of the whole season. She was a compassionate, thoughtful person who loves her family. This includes those who are not flesh and blood.
Bree is one of the show's more likable characters just for how she opens her home to Jake. He's not her nephew by blood, yet one would never know it from how warm she is with the grieving teenager. Lexa Doig's performance is one of the best in the series and helps sell the character's more intense arc.
2 Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur)
Fueled by a terrific performance from Zackary Arthur, Jake Wheeler is a perfect central character for Chucky. Wheeler feels like a real teen of the modern age. He's eclectic but his main interests are esoteric. He's ostracized by his peers until he does something to really set himself apart from the pack.
Once he crosses paths with Chucky, Jake only gets more likable. He's been spit on by everyone in his life, and Chucky attempts to influence him like a dictator swaying a hurting nation. Jake, like Andy before him, doesn't fall for it.
1 Chucky (Brad Dourif)
Charles Lee Ray may be a serial killer, and Chucky may be an ugly doll but combined they're magic. Chucky may be one of the most overall likable non-hero (even anti-hero) characters. He's pure evil, yet there have been seven movies and a reimagining about him.
Reimagining aside, Chucky is so compulsively watchable because of Brad Dourif. Chucky features some of the most elaborate animatronics of the series, but even that wouldn't be enough were it not for the personality Dourif brings to the role. Though he commits some heinous acts, they fit in with this story and he's a joy to watch no matter what he pulls off.
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