I'll Miss You Chuck

One of my favorite shows ends this Friday night. Chuck has his last mission this Friday night. I have to say that anyone who never watched this show, missed a fun ride. The premise of Chuck was this could-have-been-great Stanford drop-out who works at a local big-box media store the "Buy More" as part of the "Nerd Herd" He opens an e-mail that downloads the entire databases of the CIA, NSA, and DOD into his brain and suddenly becomes "The Intersect." A walking intelligence computer. Enter his "handlers" one Sarah Walker, an extremely tough, beautiful, and aloof CIA agent. John Casey, a died in wool, Reagan Republican, gun-loving NSA agent, and General Beckman, the all for national security,head of the Intersect program. Along the way we meet Chuck's best friend and fellow "Buy More" employee, Morgan Grimes, his sister Ellie, a doctor, and his eventual brother-in-law whom they refer to as "Awesome" who is also a doctor. There's also fellow Nerd Herders,  Jeff and Lester (known as Jeffster) and the manager of the Buy More Big Mike.

Chuck falls for Sarah and is convinced he can never have her. Eventually, Sarah falls for Chuck and is convinced she can never deserve him. We meet both of Chuck parents, Awesome's parents, several old flames and lots of scary bad guys. Ellie and Awesome get married, Big Mike moves in with Morgan's mother, and eventually Chuck and Sarah even get married. The guest starring cast has been superb everyone from Scott Bakula as Chuck and Ellie's father, Linda Hamilton as their mother, Timothy Dalton as a international arms dealer to Bo Derek as herself (but secretly a spy) in a recent episode.

The thing I think I have liked the most is the fact that Chuck's character changed, but at his core he stayed the same sweet guy. He went from being a likeable coward to being a likeable master spy. And it doesn't hurt that I have a little crush on Zachary Levi.

Even though the show is called Chuck, it truly is a ensemble. I can't imagine the series without any one of them. I hope to see much more of Zachary Levi in the future, he's proven he is leading man material. Yvonne Strahovski is beautiful and talented, I'm sure she's got scripts piled up all over. The rest of the cast, Joshua Gomez, Sarah Lancaster, Ryan McPartlin, Vik Sahay, Scott Krinsky, and Mark Christopher Lawrence I hope to see everywhere!

This Friday is the last episode, 2 hours two wrap up five years of storyline. I really, really hope I'm going to walk away satisfied.  Here's a little video of Zachary Levi talking about the end of Chuck.

I'm a Media Baby

I've always been a media baby. Music, TV,  books, and movies have always been my favorite things in this world. I was the kid whose walls were covered with posters and shelves were filled with novels and magazines. I've decided to start a new blog to focus specifically on reviewing and commenting on tv shows and movies that I watch and books that I read. And even though this blog is titled, "Eyes, Ears, and Heart: Media Lenses," this might not always be the most spiritual of blogs. Sometimes it's just going to be fun. I tried all kinds of titles that were already taken, (Media Muggle, In Front of the Screen, etc.) and this is the one that came up as open!