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Chuck - Extreme Critic

Chuck: Chuck Versus the Sensei

December 2nd 2008 18:21
Ellie Versus the In-Laws


Something that has really been keeping the popularity of this show up is that it has consistently clever and funny writing. Not only is the writing consistent, it seems to get better with every episode.

I'm glad to see an episode so focused on John Casey. I feel we can connect with his character so much more now. At least that's how I feel about it. I didn't really care about his character, I enjoy the character for the most part, but I never really cared about him. I hope we get more development for his character soon. I loved when he knocked over his plant then saluted his picture of Ronald Regan, hilarious.


While I usually don't care much, or at all, about the sub-plots, this episode had some funny moments with them. Ellie meets Awesome's parents and getting Morgan Fairchild and Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5) to play the part was a nice touch, they were everything you thought they would be. And i thought the employee of the month contest at the Buy More was a step up from the usual shenanigans happening there.

Over all this was an excellent episode, definitely something the fans have been wanting to see.
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Chuck: Chuck Versus the Gravitron

November 25th 2008 04:13


I absolutely love the direction the show is going in. Little by little they are moving Chuck closer to who he is capable of becoming. I think that, eventually,(if the show lasts that long) Chuck will become an actual agent. In the Chuck graphic novels they show Chuck's future where he is an agent, and I love it. Zachary Levi, I have praised your performance in past episodes, and, in my opinion, this is your best performance yet. The scene toward the end where he traps Jill in the Nerd Herder was awesome, totally bad @$$! Chuck is capable of so much and, like I said, they are slowly showing us more and more of that.


This episode is going down as my personal favorite, so far. It has everything I love in an episode. Although I wish they would use more of the classic hits sound track that they have in previous episodes. It works so well for this show.

Anyway, with each episode I am loving this show more and more.
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Chuck: Chuck Versus the Fat Lady

November 18th 2008 04:20


Well, I can honestly say I didn't see the twist coming at the end. I saw it coming about a minute before the reveal when they were scanning through all the Fulcrum agents. I knew that they had be bringing Chuck's ex-girlfriend back for something big, and big, it certainly is. While this was a superb episode, with several great sequences, I do have some issues with it.

Such as the scene at the Opera House where they find the box with the musical puzzle in it. So they find this box with who knows what in it and they rush it on stage, in front of everyone who is there rehearsing, and just open it? Seriously?! They knew some one was after the same thing. No one thought to discretely leave with the box and open it else where? But then we wouldn't have had the contrived intensity where it might be a bomb. I usually do a pretty good job of suspending belief in moments like these,(Chuck isn't the only show guilty of these kind of moments) but this was just too much.

Okay, onto the positive stuff

I swear, Tony Hale (Emmett Milbarge) gets better with every episode. I didn't like his character at first, but he is growing on me. Also I like how the Buy More sub plots are getting to where they are actually significant to the main character. The sequences at the end when John and Sarah are running to get to Chuck was very cool and a little intense.

Anyway, I can't wait till next week's episode, I can't wait to get the whole story of Jill. Viva Buymordia!
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Chuck: Chuck Versus the Ex

November 11th 2008 04:24


This episode is easily one of the best of the series so far. It was fun and elaborate and the best disguises, so far, ensue. I absolutely loved the restaurant scene, I thought it was one of the best directed scenes so far in the show


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Chuck: Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer

October 28th 2008 03:38


Well this is the first episode of the season that has been a little bit of a let down. It got too far fetched and wasn't as charming and witty as it usually is. Playing a video game to get some codes to a satellite? Come on, who puts a code to a satellite in a video game? Who does that? It just got a too silly there toward the end


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Chuck: Chuck Versus the Cougars

October 21st 2008 03:11


I have been dying to get some back story on Sarah. For a while there I actually though they had revealed her real name, but no. I thought the flashbacks scenes were great, especially the very end one. The costume and make-up dept. did a great job making Sarah look 10 years younger and completely opposite of how she looks now. Even though I've been wanting some Sarah back story, it leaves me only wanting more


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Chuck: Chuck Versus the Break-Up

October 14th 2008 03:27


Every show, worth watching(which I know is a matter of opinion) has moments that fans of the particular show will talk about a lot, even after the show has gone off the air. This episode of Chuck has one of those moments. The scene at the end with Sarah and Chuck talking outside of his place is the most honest and emotional scene so far in the series


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Chuck: Chuck Versus the Seduction

October 7th 2008 03:35


This was a very good episode. It was one of the more clever episodes they've done. I am very good at picking up subtleties in actor's performances and director's... direction. There was a lot of subtle humor and a great attention to detail that hasn't really been done on the show, as well as they did it in this episode


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Chuck: Chuck Versus the First Date

September 30th 2008 03:29
So close


Chuck learns that the new intersect will be going online soon and that he will be able to return to a normal life. A predictable, yet still a little unexpected, ending ensues


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