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Chuck: “Chuck vs. The Predator”

You Can’t Touch This Chuck Mondays on NBC at 9/8 “Chuck vs. The Predator” Written by Chris Fedak Directed by Jeremiah Chechik Lester: Look on the bright side. We don’t have to buy toilet paper for years. Jeff: Why start now? This one is all about diversion, from a computer going astray to a Predator attack drone being yanked around in mid-air from one target to another. It’s about pople who don’t really know themselves, too, to such an extent that their lack of self-awareness puts them at risk. And at the end of the episode, Chuck shows how dark…

Defying Gravity: “Love, Honor, Obey”

The Perils of Obedience Defying Gravity Sundays at 10 PM, ABC “Love, Honor, Obey” Written by Susan Nirah Jaffee Directed by Fred Gerber Enough reviewers have taken potshots at this show — and rightly so — that perhaps it’s fair to take a look at what actually works. The leads work: Ron Livingston, Malik Yoba and Christine Cox turn in solid, professional performances no matter what nonsense they’re given to say. There is nothing wrong with the production values, which we tend to take for granted these days until we see old re-runs of, say, the original episodes of Star Trek (that…