Astro-Naughts Defying Gravity Sundays at 10 PM, ABC “Threshold” Written by Sheri Elwood Directed by Peter Howitt Defying Gravity wants to be a hipper, updated version of Star Trek, but it’s more like Lost in space right now. There’s the same sense of isolation countered with innumerable, vivid flashbacks, the same menace lurking just out of sight, the sense that the characters have less freedom of choice than they appear to. I get it that this is a scripted show modeled, like Lost, on the idea of a reality show–people are dumped into a hostile, confined environment and told to survive. But the romance…
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Chuck: “Chuck vs. The Ring”
Chuck vs. The Reboot By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2009 by Sarah Stegall Chuck Mondays on NBC at 9/8 “Chuck vs. The Ring” Written by Chris Fedak & Allison Adler Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill “Chuck me!” — Colonel John Casey Wow. Funny, poignant, shocking, heartbreaking, fast-paced and full of surprises, this season finale of Chuck actually manages to top last week’s thrilling story. I really didn’t think they could pull that off, but I’m glad to be proven wrong. We start with a really game-changing move–Chuck finally quits the Buy More. In the opening scene. The writers are really upping the stakes in…