JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE Defeats Chucky the Evil Doll?

That… had to be the most deranged and
deliriously-entertaining 22 minutes I’ve seen all month.

A huge part of what made YU YU HAKUSHO so entertaining for me
was the way it balanced horror with comedy/action. The ol’
sucker-punch/one-liner combo was that much more fun when it cut off 20 minutes
of doom-laden, atmospheric tension. Horror’s supposed to instill a sense of helplessness
in the viewer. That’s the expectation. So when you thwart expectations, and
abruptly fill the viewer with a sense of powerful agency… it’s just so much more cathartic.

== TEASER ==

That’s the best way I can describe the sense of elation I
felt, watching Polnareff win this tooth ‘n nail struggle with Devo, the evil
doll. Keep in mind, Chucky from CHILD’S PLAY absolutely scared the shit out of
me as a kid. That one VHS cover, where he’s about to chop a jack-in-the-box’s
head off with a pair of scissors? Utterly terrifying. So there’s probably an
added layer of therapy here for me.

Polnareff chiding Devo
for his insultingly-stupid attempt to hide in the fridge? Brilliant.

Devo’s sarcastic diatribe
about what he definitely isn’t going to use that hairdryer for? Brilliant.

The staff finding Devo’s
corpse in a bathroom stall, like he died of auto-erotic asphyxiation? Brilliant.

Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. I can’t write it enough
times.

And just when I thought the show couldn’t get any more
ridiculous, it ends with that inspired cliffhanger where Jojo #2 learns of the
traitor in their midst. He flips through channels on a hotel TV like they're bird entrails.

You know a
show’s crew is committed to giving you the biggest bang for your buck (of free
time, at least) and I loved how this one episode had so much craziness that it
had to push all the through to the credits. Brilliant.

Watch
"Devil" and decide for yourself, then read my comments on the
previous batch of episodes.