http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/25/CHUCK----Series-Premiere.aspx Geeks are chic this new fall TV season. Fads don’t usually sustain themselves for long but then fads don’t always produce a show of the quality of CHUCK. Here’s hoping this new entry rises above the rest to stay with us a while. Funny, slick, charming and face-paced, CHUCK is a definite winner. Chuck is your aimless everyman who works at Buy More with the tech support team the Nerd Herd- hard to spot the satire, I know. The show opens with Chuck and his best friend and co-worker Morgan trying to escape Chuck’s birthday party. His sister threw it for him and invited (ulp!) girls. A forced introduction and a lengthy explanation of the girl who broke his heart and left him for his college roommate, Bryce Larkin, and Chuck is left alone. As usual. Cut to Bryce Larkin now, super spy, as he raids a government super computer, his tux covered in super blood. A fast download, a few handheld explosive devices to fend off the faceless government goons and Bryce is sending the stolen data to his old buddy Chuck. The sequence is up-tempo, violent and well shot. This is not the 8 pm show of old where the dispatched crawl away barely dazed. There were bones crunching and blood spurting. Bryce meets his end but the baton is passed. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/25/CHUCK----Series-Premiere.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/25/CHUCK----Series-Premiere.aspx#1672 Hey guys, have you seen this show yet?? I thought it was going to be another boring comedy, but I was wrong. I came in the middle of the pilot, and I thought hey this is that chuck show, so I sat, and watched and watched, until a comercial came on. Not only is it funny funny, its exciting!! Well, I made sure I was back before the end of the comercial, and I didn't want to see anything else while that was on!! patty1_dndp http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/25/CHUCK----Series-Premiere.aspx#1672 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:17:45 GMT