From 60 to Zero By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2007 by Sarah Stegall Chuck NBC, Mondays, 8/7 E/C “Chuck vs. the Helicopter” Written by Josh Schwartz & Chris Fedak Directed by Michael Duncan McNeill Wow. Never have I seen a series hit the wall so fast. The second episode of Chuck was so bad I thought I would abandon it in mid-episode. I’m glad I didn’t, because the second half got better, but if I had already had some other show I liked in that timeslot, this would have been my last review of this show. The opening five minutes are a…
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Dark Skies: “Pilot”
Dark Skies by Sarah Stegall © copyright 1996 by Sarah Stegall The premiere episode of “Dark Skies” is scary, thrilling, derivative, and predictable all at once. It is “The X-Files: The Early Years”, with more money than the original series from which it derives its raison d’etre. There are several significant differences, primarily of tone and approach, between “Dark Skies” and “The X-Files”, but essentially they take place in the same universe and, one would swear, with the same cast of characters. The premise is pretty simple: aliens really did land at Roswell in 1947, met with Harry…