Creators: Josh Schwartz,
Chris Fedak
Starring: Zachary Levi,
Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, Joshua Gomez, Vik Sahay, Scott Krinsky, Sarah
Lancaster, Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Bonita Friedericy, Julia
Ling, Mekenna Melvin, Tony Hale, Brandon Routh, Linda Hamilton, Scott Bakula,
Timothy Dalton, Carrie-Anne Moss
There are some television
shows that become like family. You miss them when you’re not watching them. You
feel like you know the characters the way you know the person next to you. NBC’s
action/comedy spy series “Chuck” was one of those shows for my wife and I.
For five years, “Chuck” was
a show we never missed. Some shows would sit on our DVR waiting until we were
in the right mood to watch them. Not “Chuck”. We were always in the mood for “Chuck”.
If there was an episode of “Chuck” on our DVR, that was always the first show
we watched. The final episode, however, sat there for about a month. We couldn’t
seem to bring ourselves to pull the trigger, much like Chuck.
“Chuck” is not a very
serious show. In fact, it’s really down right silly. My wife would often ask, “Do
you think real spies watch this show and laugh?” While I’m sure they would, I’m
guessing they didn’t watch it.
Despite its
preposterousness, “Chuck” sold us with its charm. It’s a geek’s fantasy in
which an employee of a technology chain store accidentally sees a CIA computer
program that implants incredible secrets and knowledge in his brain. The CIA
and the NSA both assign agents to protect him. His CIA handler is a sexy blonde
with whom he immediately falls in love. She comes around to developing feelings
for him eventually as well. I told you it was a geek fantasy.
So this nerd becomes a super
spy with a hot girlfriend. Silly? Yes. But the characters are incredibly
charming, and the writers of the series did an incredible job of giving the
audience what they wanted while continuing to come up with original
developments to keep things building. This was no “Moonlighting” where you
waited for years for the main characters to realize what the audiences knew
from day one. I always thought they were going to run out of reasons to keep
the things going. At the end of each season something would happen that I
wanted, but I’d always think, “Now, what are they going to do?” Somehow, they
always came up with a new way to keep it interesting.
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