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The long wait for “Chuck” to return has been relieved by a sneak peek to its March episodes. When the show comes back from its Winter Olympics hiatus on March 1, Chuck asks Sarah the ultimate question: “Sarah, do you love me?”.
Also in the episode which is titled “Chuck Versus the Fake Name”, Chuck promises to cook dinner for Hannah, Ellie and Awesome but must first assume the identity of the world’s most dangerous assassin for his latest mission. Meanwhile, Sarah is determined to keep her relationship with Shaw strictly professional.
Zachary Levi who plays Chuck will direct the next one which is called “Chuck Versus the Beard” and airs on March 8. Chuck feels like his life is falling apart when he can’t flash and gets left behind for a mission. While Shaw, Sarah and Casey go on without him, Chuck finds himself in a sticky situation back at the base.
This was the last ‘Chuck‘ until after the Winter Olympics, so it was important that we made some progress with the intersect — natch — and also the Hannah and Sarah situations. Ever since she flew into Chuck Bartowski’s life, Hannah has seemed too good to be true. Is she really? And what of Chuck and Sarah’s on/off relationship? Fortunately, we got a good take on it all, as well as some edge-of-the-seat thrills. More after the jump.
You know that really cool scene in the Tom Cruise ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie where he drops from the roof to access a computer without ever touching the floor? They used that bit here, first with Shaw as the man on the wire. But unlike the movie, everything went awry. It took the Nerd Herd to save the day. Yes, really. IT to the rescue.
It was actually very cool that Hannah and Chuck had a geek-love moment while rebooting a computer system. Of course, if they were really nerds and not actors, they probably wouldn’t be as cute as Zachary Levi and Kristin Kueck … but would we be watching?
Vasilly had a vendetta against Shaw, which was a good excuse to get Sarah and Chuck back on the case. There were great shots of Yvonne’s legs throughout the sequence, some kick-ass fighting, and a good deal of suspense with the vault doors opening, then not opening, while Chuck was hanging upside down.
Dang those security cameras. Wouldn’t Casey and Shaw have knocked out that feed throughout the building, or fogged up the parts that showed Chuck? That seemed like a lame loophole, giving Vasilly a clue for getting the mask back.
Another thing that was strange was that once Vasilly saw Shaw, he didn’t go after him on his own. If he had, perhaps the Ring wouldn’t have snuffed Vasilly out. Did he think the Ring was going to congratulate him for blowing the mask operation and letting Shaw get away? A dead Shaw might have satisfied the Ring masters in the face of no mask.
Chuck’s intersect and his smarts were used to good effect when faced with having to save Shaw and Sarah, plus Hannah. What we’re seeing more and more is that Chuck is excelling at the job because he’s not just a brainy guy or the intersect, but both. He saved Shaw twice in the episode and — remember — Chuck’s supposed to be the trainee.
So now that Chuck has progressed to the point of autonomy, are Sarah, Casey and Shaw hitting the road to their next assignments? Chuck as a solo spy will not do much to help his love live, or his friendship with Morgan, or explaining his life to Ellie. To truly become an agent, Chuck may have to graduate out of Burbank and out into the real world.
There is only one more episode of ‘Chuck‘ before NBC puts on the brakes in order to broadcast the Winter Olympics. For those in need of their ‘Chuck’ fix early, USA Today and co-creator Josh Schwartz has put up a clip from Monday’s episode in which Chuck and Sarah argue about… stuff. I would have probably noticed the content of the discussion more if Yvonne Strahovski wasn’t changing her clothes throughout the entire conversation. An interview with Schwartz follows the clip.
‘Chuck’ has been very enjoyable this season with the episode guest-starring ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin being the highlight. Even Kristen Kreuk, who was way too whiny as Lana on ‘Smallville’, has been cute as a button during her run on this show. It was a concern when Chuck got the new intersect at the end of the last season that the show would be less interesting to watch. Thankfully that hasn’t been the case. ‘Chuck’ returns on March 1st.
I recorded this multi-purpose promotional video during the NHL classic over the weekend- Chuck, the NBC coverage of the Winter Olympics and Honda all manage to be wound together in the beginning of a promo-sode series of ads that will run through January and into the winter games on NBC. Starring AWESOME, Sarah and Morgan.
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