This was an excellent pilot. It’s smart. It’s funny. It’s sexy. A successful blend of comedy and action, it grabs you very early on with some pretty cool action sequences.
Chuck is a highly intelligent but underachieving employee at a Best Buy-type of store. He gets an email from an old college roommate who is now a spy. Chuck opens the email and is barraged with images which apparently download government secrets directly into his brain. Now everyone is after him.
Zachary Levi plays Chuck. He’s not necessarily believable as a nerd. He seems a bit too cool to be a geek. But he’s got enough charisma and the show is so well-written that you don’t really care.
It’s always great to see Adam Baldwin (Firefly). He plays the shady NSA agent who wants to protect the government’s secrets at all costs (aka killing). He is always able to inject humor into his edgy characters.
Yvonne Strzechowski is smart, funny, and gorgeous as the CIA agent who is trying to find out if Chuck’s old roommate had passed on any of the agency’s secrets to him. In one scene she demonstrates some dance moves you won’t see at any of the clubs.
The slick visuals, editing and direction are top notch, too. I want to believe that they didn’t pour everything they had into the pilot, and that the rest of the episodes will maintain the quality and be just as much fun. Though, I’m afraid that since I liked it so much, that if history is any indication, it will be cancelled quickly. That would be unfortunate.
Chuck premieres Monday, September 24th at 8:00 pm / 7:00 Central on NBC.
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