—Chuck These final episodes of Chuck are suffering from something many shows in their final seasons (and with budgets stripped down to being produced for the price of peanuts!) go through: we've seen this before. Jeff and Lester unwittingly help the government to avert some huge disaster, check! Ellie wants to replicate something from her childhood, fails, and then the CIA helps, check! The Buy More is in danger, check! And so on and so forth… but like last week, this episode truly did make use of its circumstances where it, thankfully, felt like an episode with its own identity. However, given the circumstances, I think this is an episode where that B storyline was actually a true detriment to the rest of the episode. The Buy More has proven to be a drag in the past when the writers didn't know what to do with it and basically decided to make Jeff and Lester sexual offenders — and even though season 5 has vastly improved on that and even though there was an actual use for them this episode, their campiness sort of downplayed Sarah's torturing. … Read the rest of my review here!
I loved this episode!
ReplyDeleteoverall, I thought it was a good episode - but I do think they're struggling to check things off some master list of loose ends before the season comes to a close
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review!
ReplyDeleteTrying to cram the lose ends in before the finale it hard,but all in all it was a great episode!
ReplyDeletethat is a really review and i love that episode
ReplyDeleteExcellent episode.
ReplyDeleteBest episode of this season so far and a excellent effort for a first time writer. Hopefully thay can keep it up.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping there was a nice adjective that you forgot to write after "really"!
ReplyDeleteFun episode. Thanks
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