CHUCK, the NBC TV series ended its run after five seasons of producing the most original script-writing, colorful and dynamic cast, and state-of-the-art filmmaking.
The story-line from week to week was dramatic and consistent, prevalent to real world intelligence, yet provided weekly comic relief and the last ten minutes you cry from all the pain and all the joy brought forth each and every episode.
What really made the show, if any single components could be isolated as the secret of its success as high quality entertainment and educational programming it would be the integrity of the characters, their gelling as a unit, and their ability to evolve most notably: emotionally. The other notable ingredient that made the five season series so special was the brilliance demanded to navigate through complex situations both small and great and to overcome intense circumstances that would have national importance and global repercussions had the trio of Chuck, Sarah, and Casey not continually found a way to outwit the most clever of foes, escape through the use of intelligence and the manipulation of advanced technology and the sheer firepower of the two trained assassins assigned to develop Chuck as a spy and protect and classify the world’s most powerful classified creation, the intersect that was planted inside Chuck’s head opening night way back in season one.
With the super computer microchip holding every government file and through occasional upgrade containing the ability for its possessor to achieve uncanny physical and intellectual feats somehow this intersect because of Chuck became a uniting force in a story about everyday life of mundane work and family closeness. Week after week with the aid of the intersect criminals were brought to justice and lives were saved but ultimately responsible was the decisions made by Chuck Bartowski as he came to take down powerful evil organizations without the personal usage of a gun, with and even without the intersect, by using his Stanford University caliber intelligence, unique communication and problem-solving skills under extreme pressure, and by always doing what was right through following his heart and his love for his family, his team and Sarah. The interplay of Chuck’s sister Ellie and her husband Devin, Chuck’s best friend Morgan, and the happenings within Chuck’s employment as Nerd Herder for the BUY MORE was always critical, every scene meaningful to the individual weekly plot as with the overall events and occurrences, and the staff of the store, most specifically Jeff and Lester played both comical and critical roles, and even CIA Agent Sarah Walker would be just a cold-blooded spy and NSA Colonel John Casey perhaps plain ruthless if not for the humanity of CHUCK.
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