Diary - I just watched the series Chucky

[Maybo]

This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

I just watched the series Chucky and found it quite different from its movies. In movies, Chucky the doll usually kills people with his own hands whereas, in the series, he tends to instigate teenagers to kill their foes. Those teenagers are suggestible, and one even hit his Dad to death using the doll. However, at the end, all of them clean up their act.

 

[Rover_KE]

First, decide whether you’re writing about Chunky or Chucky.

 

[Maybo]

It’s Chucky. I corrected.

 

[Tarheel]

He beat his dad to death with the doll.

 

[emsr2d2]

I just watched the series "Chucky" and found it quite different from its the movies of the same name. In the movies, Chucky the doll usually kills people with his own hands whereas, in the series, he tends to instigate encourage/compel/force/persuade teenagers to kill their foes. Those teenagers are suggestible, and one even hit beats his Dad to death using the doll. However, at the end, all of them clean up their act.

See above. I don't know what you mean by the last four words.

 

[Maybo]

See above. I don't know what you mean by the last four words.

It means they don’t do illegal things anymore and become a good person.

 

[tedmc]

It means they don’t do illegal things anymore and become a good person.

You can say "they turn over a new leaf".

 

[emsr2d2]

It means they don’t do illegal things anymore and become a good person.

Is that because, for some reason, Chucky stops having any influence over them?

I wouldn't use "clean up their act" or "turn over a new leaf" for this specific context. I'd use those terms for people who have committed criminal offences or have behaved particularly badly/unpleasantly for a very long time, but eventually change their ways.
The kids in the film might have been well-behaved, law-abiding members of society until they came under Chucky's influence and it sounds as if their criminal behaviour was pretty short-lived and potentially involved just one crime.

 

[tedmc]

The kids in the film might have been well-behaved, law-abiding members of society until they came under Chucky's influence and it sounds as if their criminal behaviour was pretty short-lived and potentially involved just one crime.

How would you describe their behaviour then? What about "come to their senses" or "mend their ways"?

 

[Maybo]

Jake is bullied by Lexy so he hates her very much. Chucky takes this opportunity to encourage him to kill her. Jake makes a few attempts but fails so he asks Chucky to do it for him. However, when Lexy almost falls from the landing of stairs, Jake saves her.

Junior’s mother dies. He thinks that her death is caused by his father cheating on another woman. Chucky lays it on thick and causes Junior to beat his dad to death. Since then he’s become one of Chucky’s posse. However, at the end of the story, when Chucky asks Junior to kill her girlfriend Lexy, he refuses and kills Chucky instead.

The story is pretty short and maybe only last a month.