Chuck

Chuck, I gotta hand it to ya. There was a point tonight, right around where Ned let all the trapped Buy More employees call their loved ones, where I found myself thinking, This is pretty stupid. But as quickly as the idea entered my brain, it left, because "Chuck Vs. Santa Claus" was a deftly wri...

Midway through tonight's episode, I had a thought, specifically about the nature of this show's A- and B-stories. In Chuck terms, B almost always stands for Buy More, and while the antics of Morgan et al. can be entertaining, they almost always fall short of the A laughs. Other shows can regul...

It's good to be back, fellow Chuckies, and a big thanks to Keith Phipps for filling in last week. And what a week to return, I might add.One of Keith's main complaints about "Chuck Versus The Ex" was that he wasn't wild about the way Jill came back into the picture. I agree that her character was fl...

Clearly, Chuck is about nerds. But there's a danger to that as well. When the show tries to prove its "nerds are cool" message, it comes off as disengaged. Take last week's cat fight between Nicole Richie and Sarah (yes, I'm calling her by her character's name, thank you very much)—at the end, R...