Chuck - Episode 5.09 - Chuck vs the Kept Man - Review

I don't think I've ever enjoyed the first half of a Chuck episode as much as I did tonight with "Chuck vs the Kept Man." Last week, I basically wrote a love letter to anyone associated with the show, and if I could do it again, I would for the first half of this episode. It was absolutely on point: hilarious, action-y enough, romantic, and, very unusual for the show, quite… well, risqué. It's too bad Chuck and Sarah never shared scenes like Casey and Verbanski did tonight, because I don't think I've ever been so engaged into a late-40-year-olds scene as I just was tonight.

You can't deny it: they were sex. ay. With an "a," yes.

Meanwhile, Sarah was going through all-too-blunt symptoms of pregnancy, which I don't mind because they provided much hilarity, but have you noticed how much I praised the former half of the episode? That's because the payoff in the second half was sort of a let down. …

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