Seriously, the end of season two (pretty much all the Orion stuff on) has been the best episodic TV I've seen in a long time. The show is hitting all it's marks and doing so in an amazing way. It's funny, it has action, and it takes the time to tell the story.
If anybody watched the OC, then they know that Josh Schwartz always complained about having to do too much and be twisty just for the sake of shocking the audience. With Chuck, they don't have to do that. The fact that Casey and Chuck are friends came about in a very organic way. Hell, even Morgan has grown in steps, not just a sudden leap.
Highly recommend if you have not seen it to rent it, download it, or buy Season 1...because by the end of Season 2 you will be smiling the entire time.
Schwartz basically told NBC you have to have a season 3 because of the way he ended Season 2. That was brilliant. Everything about this show has felt natural which is weird when you consider it's about a normal guy getting an entire computer's database of national security matters downloded into his head. BFG made the point that it's all felt organic. Chuck becoming a spy. Chuck's relationships with his sister, AWESOME, Morgan, Casey, Jill, Bryce, and especially Sarah have felt right. Never felt rushed or forced, but just exactly as it should be.
When the NBC Monday lineup was first announced, I and most people fell in love with Heroes. Big, epic show with tons of comic/nerd shout outs. Superpowers, awesome characters and it seemed like the best of the night. I'll admit from day one, Chuck has ALWAYS been more fun. I liked Heroes more for a time, but I preferred watching Chuck just because it never stepped too far away from it was good at.
I don't have the sites on hand, but I know there are quite a few Save Chuck websites out there. I think it'd be a disgrace if this show got cancelled, especially if it's a casualty of the old-fuck with the triple chins stealing an hour of primetime each day.
I *LOVED* the finale. I even think, if it had to, it could work as a series finale, and could potentially act as a leap-off into a big screen version (stay with me, I know this sounds a little ridiculous), but why not have Chuck be a funnier, slightly less cooler version of James Bond?!
Even so, it SHOULD be renewed for a 3rd season, seriously.
Chuck has found a way to make a completely ridiculous premise (the Intersect) into a completely believable and enjoyable series. They even keep re-hashing the craptastic premise over and over, and I don't even mind it, because the characters are so perfect together. There are so many more potential storylines to be done here.
When the NBC Monday lineup was first announced, I and most people fell in love with Heroes. Big, epic show with tons of comic/nerd shout outs. Superpowers, awesome characters and it seemed like the best of the night. I'll admit from day one, Chuck has ALWAYS been more fun. I liked Heroes more for a time, but I preferred watching Chuck just because it never stepped too far away from it was good at.
Nikki Finke, whose sources sometimes get things wrong but more often get them right, is reporting that NBC will announce Monday that “Chuck,” “Law & Order,” “Medium,” “Parks & Recreation” and “Southland” have been renewed for the 2009-2010 season. NBC “bubble” shows Finke does not mention are miserable prank show "Howie Do It" “Yes, Dear” creator Greg Garcia’s abysmally rated shitcom “My Name Is Earl,” and cult-fave Zen procedural “Life.”
Others NBC shows expected back to share the primetime schedule with the five-nights-a-week hourlong “The Jay Leno Show” next season are “Heroes,” “The Office,” “30 Rock,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Friday Night Lights.”
NBC shows long expected not to return include “Kath & Kim,” “Kings,” “Knight Rider,” “Crusoe,” “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Lipstick Jungle” and “ER.”
The major broadcast networks announce their 2009-2010 primetime schedules on these dates:
NBC: May 4 Fox: May 18 ABC: May 19 CBS: May 20 The CW: May 21
Nikki Finke, whose sources sometimes get things wrong but more often get them right, is reporting that NBC will announce Monday that “Chuck,” “Law & Order,” “Medium,” “Parks & Recreation” and “Southland” have been renewed for the 2009-2010 season. NBC “bubble” shows Finke does not mention are miserable prank show "Howie Do It" “Yes, Dear” creator Greg Garcia’s abysmally rated shitcom “My Name Is Earl,” and cult-fave Zen procedural “Life.”
Others NBC shows expected back to share the primetime schedule with the five-nights-a-week hourlong “The Jay Leno Show” next season are “Heroes,” “The Office,” “30 Rock,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Friday Night Lights.”
NBC shows long expected not to return include “Kath & Kim,” “Kings,” “Knight Rider,” “Crusoe,” “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Lipstick Jungle” and “ER.”
The major broadcast networks announce their 2009-2010 primetime schedules on these dates:
NBC: May 4 Fox: May 18 ABC: May 19 CBS: May 20 The CW: May 21
Okay, jumped the gun as NBC decided to hold off on the final decision of Chuck until their upfront presentation on May 19. That will be the same week we get final decisions on a few other shows like Sarah Connor and Dollhouse.