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Chuck: “Chuck vs. the Zoom”

Dancing with the Spies By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2011 by Sarah Stegall Chuck Fridays on NBC at 8/7 PM “Chuck vs. the Zoom” Written by Chris Fedak & Nicholas Wootton Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill “This is the plan, its final chapter.” — Dexter Chuck returns for its final, truncated season running on fumes. The concept behind the story – a nerd gets a computer stuck in his head – is turning out to be a one-trick pony, a conceit that the writers are having trouble building on. Every time Chuck comes back for a new season, it tries to reboot itself…

Falling Skies: “Sanctuary” Part 1 & Part 2

Pied Piper Falling Skies TNT, Sundays, 9 PM “Sanctuary, Parts 1 and 2” Part One written by Joel Anderson Thompson; Part Two written by Melinda Hsu Taylor Parts One and Two directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan “You definitely have a different scale of problems out here.” — Mike I saw it coming. I hoped I was wrong, as I always do when a Cliche starts oozing its way into a story, but I wasn’t. This two-part story on Falling Skies switches the focus of this alien-invasion series into the classic nihilistic we-are-our-own-worst-enemy trope you see in virtually every single story of war shown…