“Chuck”: Chuck vs. The Helicopter (1×2)
posted by Don Z on October 2, 2007 at 12:35 pm in Chuck, TV, Reviews 2 comments »
Two episodes in, I’m still enjoying “Chuck” juuuust enough to want to keep watching. Trolling around the interweb I’m sensing that “Chuck” is not high on the list of favorite fall shows. The pilot was bad, people seem to say, and episode two was horrible.
Not to say that “Chuck” is anything groundbreaking, or even a good show. If you’re going to do a spy spoof, you have to play it spoofy, which “Chuck” does not seem to understand. It takes itself just a smidge too seriously. In the second episode, the badguy Dr. Zarnow tells Sarah “I’m going to take you somewhere where I will torture you!” Seriously, he says that. If you’re reached the point where you’re going to torture them, the subject of your torture is onto you. You say things like “we have ways of making you talk.” Duh. I don’t think they thought the line would come off as funny and spoofy; it’s just lazy writing.
My main problem with “Chuck” is that I don’t believe for a second that a real-life Chuck who looks like Zachary Levi would not be as they say, “swimming in it.” By “it” I mean girls, with the kissing and the brassieres and the whatnot. Sure he’s sort of nerdy, he plays video games, and he doesn’t have a kickass job, but he’s he’s sarcastic and shy, super cute and fit-looking, and he dresses cool. Not buying it.