Everybody’s Kung-Fu Fighting By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Chuck NBC, Mondays, 8/7 E/C “Chuck vs. The Sizzling Shrimp” Written by Scott Rosenbaum Directed by David Solomon There is a reason that ancient critics of theatre like Aristotle divided the art into comedy and tragedy (or what we would call drama today); it’s hard to mix the two approaches effectively. Either the comedy trivializes the drama or the drama flattens the comedy. Prime-time television is experimenting with “dramedy” these days, and I’m all in favor of pushing the artistic envelope, but the key is getting the balance…
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Chuck: “Chuck vs. The Sandworm”
Doppelgangers By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Chuck Mondays on NBC at 9/8 “Chuck vs. The Sandworm” Written by Phil Klemmer Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill Of all the goofy characters on Chuck, the one that made me laugh the hardest this week was … Captain Awesome. Virtually all of the characters on Chuck are stereotypes, which is fine for a farce, that’s what stereotypes are for. But now and then the writers will break with tradition and surprise us. The Captain, who looks like every blond, Aryan-hero jock we’ve ever seen on television, consistently undermines our expectations with his…