Review: Chuck - Chuck vs. the Angel de la Muerte

Arg f*ck, I shouldn't read your review because I didn't watch the preview :(

(But now, i feel better ^^)

Good job for the review btw :)

I've always like the Buy More gang and their antics. I thought last season it started to get more and more ridiculous because Chuck was hardly ever at work and no one seemed to really notice or care though. I didn't notice they hadn't done any scenes at the Buy More until this particular episode was over. But I agree with another poster that I like to see Chuck stay grounded and interacting with co-workers.

I don't mind the BuyMore when it (and its employees) are part of the main plot. But I don't like when they make a secondary unrelated plot just to give these characters some screen time. That forces the main plot to be more simplistic.

The thing about Chuck working at the Buy More is that it provides actual income and an excuse to be gone from the store with minimal lying. "I'm going on a customer call" is an easy, short reason to leave the store. The problem with a promotion to a manager, is that he would actually have to be there to MANAGE people - and from my own retail experience - Buy More managers would probably not go on customer calls that didn't involve major clients.

I think a good way to have Chuck evolve would be to give him a job at a major computer company where he would still have to do a lot of "field work". They could have the more major Buy More guys follow him as lower-level hacks since they obviously have SOME computer skills. Morgan and Big Al (? I can't believe I forgot his name!) can be integrated through Chuck's personal life since Chuck moved in with Morgan and Al(?) is still dating Morgan's mother. Casey really wouldn't have to work side-by-side with Chuck any more since Chuck can mostly take care of himself.

I've probably been thinking about this too much, but the truth is, as much as I like the Buy More setting, I've begun considering the whole thing a little irrelevant too.

I think they are trying to save money. Didn't they say they had to cut a bunch of characters? Instead it seems like they are going to limit secondary characters appearances. Kinda like what they did with Scrubs last year (or was it the last year it was on NBC?). Either way I enjoy the Buy More gang.

I actually miss the Buy More gang. What I feel grounds Chuck are his family and friends. As he becomes less of a geek and more of a spy, he still needs something to anchor him in reality which I felt made Chuck different from the other shows. While perhaps Chuck, as a person, has grown beyond Nerd Mgr status, he still needs a life outside the CIA. Since he has his Stanford degree, I'd love to see Chuck actually get a freelance programming gig and balance that with the spy world (and not just as a cover).

I think the third ep was cute and fun, but it reminds me too much of the first half of the second season which focused more on the fantasy of the spy world and less of Chuck's real world -

I could do without the Buy-Morons. They slow down the show and it's time for Chuck to grow up and find something (a job) more commensurate to his skills. Why not have Chuck and his best friend start a gaming company or a computer consulting company of their own?

They've really been delivering the plot this season, so far. Awesome raises the stakes in an interesting way - he also handles himself the way a guy who has never failed does, which is a good counterpoint to Chuck's constant lack of confidence.

Buy More: Realistically, with Circuit City out of business, it's probably hard to find a place to film these scenes, since Best Buy is the only big-box electronics store left. Plot-wise, I like the idea that there's less of it, but don't get rid of it. Perhaps Chuck gets the well-deserved promotion to Asst. Manager in charge of the Nerd Herd, as he probably would have at this point in his life had he not been Intersect-ed.

Morgan: Morgan is non-spy Chuck, more or less. The relationship between him and Chuck is the way to measure the distance Chuck has traveled since the first episode. He must stay.

*Said in best nerd voice* Okay, Devon's nickname is Capt. Awesome, not Dr. ;)

I love the scenes at the Buy More, especially when it involves Jeffster.

Good episode but I have to agree that NBC made a bonehead move with the preview for next week.