Just tuned into Josh Schwartz’s new geekedy, Chuck, and it pretty much rules. The writing it witty, the premise is hilarious, and the characters are just as loveable as Season 1 Sandy and Seth Cohen, Summer Roberts, and Luke Ward (all from Josh’s former hit, The O.C.).
Chuck is like an adult version of the sarcastic and nerdy Seth Cohen, while his sidekick Morgan is a poor man’s Seth Green (they only sprinkle him throughout the episode, which makes it bearable). Yvonne Strzechowski, who plays CIA agent Sarah Walker kicks ass álà Angelina Jolie in Mr and Mrs. Smith (a bad movie, but great spy ass kicking scenes). Plus, all the nerd humor is spot on rather than condescending or negative. Case in point, during a commercial I channel surfed to CBS where another geeky show was premiering, The Big Bang Theory and they were making Klingon jokes (really, people are still making those?). I don’t want to judge BBT since I only caught a few seconds of it, but I can tell you there were no Klingon jokes on Chuck.
For those of you on the west coast you need to Tivo this. For the rest of you guys, what did you think?
Wired writer Mark Anderson gave Chuck a 7/10, saying that the show “forgets its core audience at times and pushes the action-adventure angle too far, like some network suit never figured out this isn’t Alias: The Geek Years.” Which reminds me, when are they going to give Alias‘ Marshall his own show? He and Dwight Schrute could be roomies in the hit sitcom of the decade!
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