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…
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Chuck: “Chuck vs. The Alma Mater”
One Remote to Rule Them All By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Chuck Mondays on NBC at 9/8 “Chuck vs. The Alma Mater” Written by Anna Cofell Sanders Directed by Patrick Norris Chuck finally broke its own mold with this episode, which relies more on Chuck’s personal memory than his artificially installed “Intersect” memory to drive the show. When a Stanford professor calls for help from the CIA, Casey and Sarah try to persuade Chuck to return with them to Stanford, the site of his humiliation, to rescue the professor from an assassin. Chuck initially refuses, but finally…