Chucky suggests what your mother might be doing in Hell.

One of the great pleasures of Chucky’s TV incarnation is the way it fuses the deliciously predictable with leftfield surprises that have you laughing out loud with glee. It is bananas-on-toast bonkers one minute, and genuinely affecting the next. This is not an easy trick to pull off.

For that reason, I really don’t want to say much about what happens in this terrific penultimate episode. In fact, if anyone tries to tell you, stick your fingers in your ears and shout ‘la-la-la’ very loudly.

What I will say, is that the brilliant Bella Higginbotham is able to reprise her role as Nadine in three minutes of joyous and affecting television. She may well not get nominated for anything, but she is already winner of my personal ‘Genre Performance of the Year’ award. It’s a perfectly pitched piece of comic acting with its feet rooted in something truthful and painful as well.

Aside from the broader splatter-fest comedy, the episode has an exquisite and thematically rich framing device, involving Father Bryce and the confessional booth, exploring guilt, good, evil and forgiveness, and ending with an emotional twist that actually means something, adding to our understanding of the world. It sets the bar very high for anyone thinking that horror-comedy is just for gross-out lolz.

Verdict: Chucky Season 2 continues to be excellent at every turn and I’m going to miss it when it’s gone. 9/10

Martin Jameson