Chuck is the story of a nerdy guy that works in some mega store and gets power after his parents sold his soul to the devil, wait… that’s not Chuck. Hmm, I seem to have gotten my nerdy-guy-shows-that-get-some-super power confused. Chuck is about a nerdy guy that works in a mega store that got his powers from an e-mail his college room mate, turned rogue spy, sent to him. Did Jake 2.0 work in a store? Anyway, let‘s start with the breakdown of the show.
Main nerd of the show: Chuck
Nerd type: Lovable nerd. The lovable nerd only exists in TV shows or film. He is the dude that tries to always do good but never gets the respect and always ends up in some funny situation.
Superpower: Huge database of sensitive information downloaded into brain, giving him the be ability to have “flashes” which recall information on the specific subject he is staring at, at the moment.
Nerd Sidekick: Morgan Grimes.
Nerd Type: Rodent nerd. He is that little friend that some of us have that actually resembles some type of a rodent in the way they act. My rodent nerd friend acts like a badger, and we actually tell him this. Grimes has the hots for Chuck’s sis. Hilarity ensues
The hot chick: Sarah Walker
Hot chick type: Standard blond hot chick #5. This hot chick has an athletic body. This hot chick tries to do what’s right but when the job requires her to ignore this she eventually does. She means well and so on.
Overall Story.
Chuck was a normal nerd working in the Nerd Herd at Buy More trying to make a living in this cold and harsh world. One day he received an email from a college room mate he never kept in touch with, that e-mailed contained a huge amount of sensitive and classified information about spies and all sorts of dark government stuff. When he opened this e-mail all of that information downloaded into his brain and it turned him into a walking database. Wai, wait… I just figured something out while trying to do this little summary of the show, Chuck as a series cannot exist.
Why? Chuck’s friend stole that info then sent it to him in an e-mail, Chuck saw the email and it downloaded into his head. When the CIA and NSA figured out that a Chuck was contacted by his friend they went to take his comp to figure out what was the message that was sent. The comp was broken and they apparently couldn’t reconstruct the HD to get whatever was sent BUUUUUUT!!! Chuck tells them it was an e-mail. All they need to do is get his email account and password to get the information Chuck got. Then all they need to do is put a bullet in Chuck’s head and it’s all over. Therefore this series is all happening because some how no one in both CIA and the NSA has figured out to check Chuck’s email account for email that contained the stolen info. I’m sorry but out of all the things you can ignore just to keep the story moving forward this HAS to be the dumbest one I have ever seen. These folks have all sort of cool spy devices and no one has thought of checking the mail that downloaded into Chuck all this mess?
Well lets continue the review for those folks that choose to ignore that major fault and keep watching. After the download, and the HUUUUGE plot hole, an agent from the CIA, the hot chick, and one from the NSA are stationed near Chuck to keep an eye on the info and to randomly solve crimes and spy situations that happen to start appearing near where Chuck works and lives in. Each episode turns into a 42 minute spy mini movie that borrows from every spy source ever created. There’s the agent that goes off the grid to save a family member but they have to stop him episode, trying to get back a stolen one of a kind jewel, infiltrating the gala event find out why X person is there, etc, etc. There are some hot chicks show up in each episode and a few cool action scenes but those can’t bring the show up from downer of seeing Chuck fumble through every single scene on every single episode. Seeing this for the pilot and maybe a few episodes after would be ok but after five episodes of the dude fumbling all over the place with the same act is tiring.
I know there’s 20 episodes to a season and that’s lot of time is left to develop the story but if they want me to stick around for the 20 they need to start moving it along and giving me something that I’m going to get hooked into.
For this Chuck gets a
In the Sigh-o-meter.
Chuck’s repetitive fumbling nerd act for 5 straight episodes drags down the spy stories you are familiar with from seeing other spy shows and spy films.
The .5 is for the hot chicks in hot clothing, or lack off, and a few entertaining action scenes.
And for the seventeenth secret Baldwin brother, Adam Baldwin. The dude always does a good job of playing the tough guy that wants to kill you.
Edit- Ok, after a day of holding to this to find possible ways as to why people are ignoring the mail loop hole I got a few probable answers.
1. He could be using POP email and after he got the mail it automatically got erased from the server.
2. It could have been the Mission Impossible, “This email will self destruct in 5 seconds.”
Sort of makes sense, but the problem remains that an explanation of a major part of the plot was basically neglected. The hot chick DID say that the HD wasn’t recoverable but come on, the dude works for the Nerd Herd… he could probably a computer that fell 4 four feet or something.
Anyway, the series still gets its rating. That semi-plot hole wasn’t really factored into the rating of the show.
