CTU reborn! Jack face-to-face with Jonas Hodges! Chloe returns! The president's daughter more duplicitous than ever! Tony is bad to the bone! The plot thickens to rock-hard ICE!
24 was incredible again tonight...but I want to talk about Chuck.
That's right. This week's KA-CHUNK Report is really the KA-CHUCK Report. We will return to regularly scheduled 24 armchair quarterbacking next Monday evening.
If there was an award for "Most Improved Show" it would have to go to Chuck this year. While Heroes sank beneath the waves once again, destroying the promise it once held as a great show, Chuck has soared above. And if tonight's final scene was any indication, Chuck will be back with us in the fall. That "To Be Continued..." card had to be true, right?
The estimable Nikki Finke seems to think so. Even though Ms. Finke admits to never watching the show, but she says in this post, "I can tell you the Chuck campaign is having an effect on the NBC suits. 'It's a good show, a solid show, and it's in contention to come back,' an insider tells me. 'I'm betting it'll end up back. But that decision hasn't been made yet.'
There are numerous "Save Chuck" campaigns going on right now. But even if the show--sadly--doesn't come back, it went out with an incredible bang. The last six episodes or so have been amazing. I blogged here about how last week's episode would have been the perfect ending for the show, period, but tonight's episode, featuring Ellie and Awesome's wedding, was even better, filled with action, suspense, and an AWESOME ending, which sheds a whole new light on Chuck himself and the show. If it does come back, it'll be with a new and improved premise that changes the whole game.
Beyond that, rarely does a show click so well amongst its lead characters. Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin and Josh Gomez are so good together, both onscreen and off. They visited Comic-Con's sister show, WonderCon, in San Francisco in March and they were such a happy bunch, you'd swear they knew then the fate of their show. Chuck is one of those shows that deserves a second chance, whether it be on the moribund NBC or some other TV outlet. Hell, I'd pay to go see a Chuck stage show once a month if need be. Take that baby on the road and put on a play!
ADDED: I had a Chuck dream last night, too, after writing this. It concerned a sequence after the "To Be Continued" card. It was Chuck in a huge garbage dump, dressed in a garbageman's onesie, and with a huge Mario Bros. mustache, frantically digging through garbage. Everytime he saw anything, he flashed on it. Seems the new Intersect drove him nuts...and Casey and Sarah had to find him and save him. But go back to sleep...it was only a dream.
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