Miami Chuck By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Chuck Mondays on NBC at 9/8 “Chuck vs. The Wookie” Written by Allison Adler Directed by Allan Kroeker There hasn’t been a really good weekly spy spoof on television in a long time, perhaps not since Get Smart or The Scarecrow and Mrs. King, back in the day, so I’m slowly getting used to the idea that Chuck is less about the computer in Chuck’s head than it is about the spies in his life. Although the series was sold to us as a sort of updated, slapstick version of Johnny Mnemonic, it actually has much…
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Chuck: “Chuck vs. The Sizzling Shrimp”
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…