Chucky Season 2: Two Legacy Characters The Show Should Finally Bring Back

Warning: Spoilers for Chucky season 1!

It’s about time that two major Child’s Play legacy characters return, andChuckyseason 2 is the place for them to do so. With Chucky season 1 now in the rearview mirror, the general consensus among franchise followers seems to be that creator Don Mancini was successfully able to transition the titular killer doll from movie star to TV star. That’s not to say the show was flawless or didn’t generate some sizable plot holes, but for the most part, the original Chucky made a triumphant return after 2019’s ill-conceived movie remake.

Unlike most instances of movie franchises becoming TV shows, Chucky actually stayed true to the continuity from the movies, picking up the story following the ending of 2017’s Cult of Chucky. In doing so, Chucky also opened the door to bring back a parade of returning characters from the movies, in addition to the crowd-pleasing return of Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky. So far, Chucky’s wife Tiffany has come back in both doll and Jennifer Tilly forms, as did Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif), Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), and Andy’s foster sister Kyle (Christine Elise).

Although they’ve yet to appear onscreen, Chucky and Tiffany’s twin children, Glen and Glenda, have also been teased. With all of those Child’s Play legacy characters present and accounted for in Chucky season 1, that only leaves two major ones left to bring back for season 2: Andy’s mom Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks), and Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon, who also played Fright Night‘s vampire villain Jerry Dandridge), the cop who saved Andy and Karen from Chucky’s wrath. They’ve been MIA since the first Child’s Play, and it’s about time audiences get to catch up with them.

While neither Karen nor Mike has been seen onscreen since the first Child’s Play, Child’s Play 2 did reveal that prior to its opening, Karen had been placed in a mental hospital due to her backing up of Andy’s story about Chucky being alive. That led to Andy being placed in foster care and meeting Kyle. However, Child’s Play 2 didn’t explain what happened to Mike and never clarified whether he, too, backed up Karen and Andy’s story. Perhaps he realized doing so would only get him locked up, too, so he stayed quiet since Chucky was dead again anyway.

Karen Barclay was still institutionalized in the widely disliked Child’s Play 3, which canonically took place ten years after the first movie. That seemed a tad ridiculous since she wasn’t actually insane and presumably would have eventually realized she needed to change her tune on Chucky to get released. When Andy appeared again at the end of Curse of Chucky, he was talking to his mom on the phone and mentioned Mike, which implied that not only did Karen get released sometime after Child’s Play 3, but that she and Mike became romantically involved. If that was true, it makes sense for both Karen and Mike to show up together during Chucky season 2, likely to help Andy get out of whatever situation the Tiffany doll puts him in. For longtime fans, it would be quite fulfilling to see Andy and Karen together onscreen, in addition to seeing Chucky once again interact with the man who originally killed Charles Lee Ray.

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