what’s up chuck

I have to say I find myself looking forward to Chuck each week. And I find that it’s not just because of the interesting characters forced to work together, or the witty dialogue, or the kick-ass action scenes, but honestly also because I don’t have to think too hard. I have a few Heroes queued in the backlog because I feel like I don’t have the attention span. But though it’s easy to follow Chuck on his weekly adventure with his two agent protectors, hiding it all from his sister Ellie and best bud Morgan, there are a few big plot items. So if you haven’t been watching you should tune in and though you don’t really need it, here’s a bit of story…

Chuck was kicked out of Stanford because his roommate Bryce turned him in for cheating (which if course he didn’t do), either before or after stealing his girlfriend. Chuck can’t forgive him for it, and has yet to really get his life back on track. He’s tech support at the Nerd Herd at Buy More (think Geek Squad at Best Buy but funnier and apparently more successful at helping solve tech issues). And he’s living with his doctor sister (Everwood/What About Brian’s Sarah Lancaster) and her boyfriend dubbed Captain Awesome, because everything is in fact ‘awesome’. Their parents are gone, though we’ve yet to get what could be more than just a story of a mother who left and a father who wasn’t there for them.

So all is chugging along in Chuck’s unfulfilled life when he receives an email from his old college roommate/nemesis and what hides behind a path of a video game they wrote in college is in fact encoded images and information about all of the secrets that all of the countries agencies had hidden away. Nemesis Bryce managed to steal these before blowing up the computer that held them and getting himself killed. Apparently roommate was a rogue agent for the CIA.

Bryce’s former partner, professionally and romantically, Sarah, goes after Chuck to track it all down. Chuck is now too valuable to lose and has round the clock support from Sarah, who pretends to be his girlfriend working across the street, and Casey (the hilarious Adam Baldwin) who is NSA, works with him at Buy More, and has moved into his apartment complex. Each week Chuck is either assigned to, or happens upon, something that makes him ‘flash’ and tap into the downloaded info.

Sarah is clearly getting close to Chuck, though when he asked her with a little truth serum happening about her true feelings for him, her training allowed her to say no. Though of course her kissing him when she thought they were about to die cleared that up. But with Bryce returning from the dead for a makeout session of his own, who knows where Sarah’s heart lies. Bryce, it turns out, was on assignment, and not in fact rogue, and is now heading out to find the true evildoers. We knew there was a chance he wasn’t evil when we found out that he got Chuck kicked out of Stanford to avoid his being recruited by the CIA and ruining his life. Funny how things work out.

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