{"id":3774,"date":"2021-12-03T00:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:28:36","slug":"watch-chucky-series-same-sex-teen-kiss-is-all-sorts-of-adorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/?p=3774","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018Chucky\u2019 series\u2019 same-sex teen kiss is all sorts of adorable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Chucky<\/em>\u00a0TV series featured its first same-sex kiss this week in the fifth episode of season one, between the 14-year-old protagonist, Jake (Zackary Arthur), and his friend Devon (Bjorgvin Arnarson).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the friends think they\u2019ve saved their town from the evil Chucky doll, which Jake purchased at a yard sale, they stop riding their bikes and have a chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jake asks: \u201cWhat are you thinking Devon?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thinking, this is a problem we can solve together,\u201d Devon says before Jake laughs says \u201cokay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They lean in for a brief kiss, pull back and laugh for a moment, then share another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JAKE AND DEVON THIS IS SO CUTE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chucky?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#chucky<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/125aJmgW48\">pic.twitter.com\/125aJmgW48<\/a><\/p>&mdash; naz (@mystiquejlaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mystiquejlaw\/status\/1458296774058258433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s an adorable moment, and a wonderful one for younger, queer audiences in terms of representation. Of course, the threat of Chucky still looms \u2014 they just don\u2019t know it yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking recently to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/uk\/chucky-tv-show-will-answer-some-big-questions-from-the-original-movie-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SFX<\/a>, 58-year-old series creator Don Mancini, who is gay, reflected on the increasing gay representation in the Chucky franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEver since&nbsp;<em>Bride Of Chucky<\/em>&nbsp;is when I started deliberately injecting specific gay content into the franchise. And with each successive film, I\u2019ve sort of ramped it up more and more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo taking it into the medium of TV and having so much more storytelling space at my disposal, which necessarily means so much more opportunity to explore character relationships,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI realized that it gave me an opportunity to really be more personal, and even autobiographical than I\u2019ve ever been before. So the character Jake, played by Zach Arthur, there are a lot of autobiographical elements for me in that character.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original&nbsp;<em>Child\u2019s Play<\/em>&nbsp;debuted on movie screens in 1988 and spawned six sequels as well as a reboot in 2019. The franchise attracted a devout cult following who lauded the series for its horror\u2013and camp\u2013elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chucky<\/em>&nbsp;airs on USA Network and Syfy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Chucky\u00a0TV series featured its first same-sex kiss this week in the fifth episode of season one, between the 14-year-old protagonist, Jake (Zackary Arthur), and his friend Devon (Bjorgvin Arnarson). After the friends think they\u2019ve saved their town from the evil Chucky doll, which Jake purchased at a yard sale, they stop riding their bikes and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-todaygaystories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4guysmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}