DVD review: “Chuck – The Complete First Season”
From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.
BAM Note: The second season of “Chuck” premieres at 7 p.m. Monday on NBC. Or, you can watch the first episode of Season 2 online now at www.nbc.com/chuck.
Witty spy send-ups, fun action sequences and colorful supporting characters made the geeky-cool series “Chuck” one of the best new offerings of last year’s strike-shortened TV season.
Zachery Levi brings the right blend of hopeless dork and leading man to the part of Chuck, a computer geek who once attended Stanford but now works at BuyMore, a big-box electronics store. His hum-drum life is shaken up when he gets an e-mail of specially encoded government secrets. When the supercomputer containing the secrets is destroyed, Chuck suddenly becomes an invaluable resource and a big liability for the nation’s spy networks.
Chuck is put in the care of two undercover handlers: lovely but deadly CIA agent Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and hardnosed NSA agent Casey (Adam Baldwin). As they accompany Chuck on dangerous spy missions, they also help him maintain the illusion of a normal life for his needy best friend Morgan (Joshua Gomez) and protective sister Ellie (Sarah Lancaster).
The premise requires significant suspension of disbelief, but “Chuck” offers smart, escapist fun and good-natured digs at spy movies, consumer culture and workplace politics.
Extras: Deleted scenes, character shorts with audition footage, gag reel, featurettes and Xbox 360 demo of “Madden NFL 2009.”
- BAM
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