After proclaiming, NBC was trying to kill “Chuck”, only 3 ½ days ago I managed to locate and view the entire second season (I realize that probably puts a point or two on the wrong side of the “Does this guy have a life?” question, but… whelp whatever). The first 12 episodes were extremely hard to get but since I’ve documented the possible ways of tracking them down in a previous post I won’t bore you with the details here. Episodes 13 through 22 were streaming beautifully on Hulu.com which is rapidly becoming its own broadcast channel on my TV screen (I’ll do a how to on that in a future post).
Anyway, after watching the “Chuck” season 2 finale, I can honestly say that I love this show. It’s not the kind of “fleeting” love one might get after an episode of “Weeds”. It’s not the type of “makes me miserable to watch it but it just so damn terrific and I am compelled to watch” love one could feel about “The Wire”. It is not even the variety of “I could watch these characters all day but the storylines make me pine for ‘Lost’ to return” love one definitely gets when watching “Leverage”. Nope, “Chuck” is the kind of show you fall hard for, it is the “I love this story, I love the characters, I love the witty writing, I love the way it makes me grin like a 5 year old who was just told he could stay up an hour later” type of love that few shows ever manage to earn.
I realize that the previous paragraph is a bit over the top(I hope it did not make you want to up-"Chuck"), but it really is the way this show makes me feel as a viewer. I do not even care that by the end of the second season I saw dozens of advertisements within the show because they fit so well into the overall plot of the series. Why bother to bribe Big Mike with generic donuts when he could be as happy with a “Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki” from Subway? Why shouldn’t Morgan’s dream job be to become a Hibachi chef for Benihanas? Why wouldn’t “Buy More” have a giant “Fable II” cardboard cutout prominently displayed in multiple places within the store? Come to think of it, since Chuck and company quit the “Buy More” at the end of season two, why not have the whole operation moved to a “Best Buy” and hopefully secure the all powerful ad dollars needed to give us another season or two of “Chuck”. I am cautious to say this aloud but maybe we could get a commercial break free episode presented by the in show advertisers.
In case I have not made my thoughts clear enough about this show, you need to watch “Chuck”. Seriously, even though it is criminally hard to watch some of the episodes streaming online I have faith that you can figure it out, so get to it!
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