A Field Guide To Catching Up On Chuck

NBC ’s Chuck , well known as “ The Show That Comes On Before Heroes ” on Monday nights has just gotten an guild for a full season from the connection . That is , if the writer ’s strike ever comes to an end . So what is this show all about ? Check out our handy template to fulfil the fiber and major plot line of descent , and catch - up with the short science - fiction , CIA - mental capacity - implant show that could .

Besides asterisk Adam Baldwin of Firefly and Serenity fame , the show features mostly new faces . Here ’s a crash course that will wrap your nous around Chuck .

Chuck Bartowski : Chuck is the nominal fictitious character of the show , and he exercise at Buy More , a sort of take on Best Buy , or your electronics fund of choice . He ’s a member of the “ Nerd Herd , ” which is a take on Best Buy ’s own “ Geek Squad , ” where he provides tech support to client . However , his life strike a act for the flaky ( and the episodic ) when someone he know in college ( now turned superspy ) netmail him a file containing all of the government ’s secret ( in a series of images ) , before succumbing to a bullet wound . Chuck start the e-mail , and zip zap zoom , everything gets imprint on his learning ability . His calculator is later taken out in a firefight when intelligence agentive role examine to get the information back , meaning that his encephalon is now the only thing hold all the secrets of the U.S.

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Sarah Walker : Sarah is the CIA ’s top field agent who happens to also be fume hot . Of course . Are there any atrocious top CIA broker out there ? perhaps they stick them all in the accounting section , who knows . Sarah is one half of the governing vying for the secrets operate in Chuck ’s brain , and is also the one who unknowingly destroyed his gruelling cause . She ’s had to enrol into an uneasy alliance with her counterpart at the NSA , John Casey , in an cause to keep a palpebra on the secrets in Chuck ’s bonce . She also had to start pose as Chuck ’s girlfriend in edict to spoil any plots or enemy he happens to see in his memory , which get triggered when he run into sure subliminal image .

John Casey : John is your typical shoot first , ask questions never kind of agent . Where Sarah is all about cloak and daggers and superspy technical school , John is more apt to pop you in the face and shove a gas down your pharynx . Since the NSA does n’t want the CIA to get an upper hired hand on state secrets , he has to bivouac out near Chuck 24/7 in an endeavour to forestall the same things that Sarah does . So , he gets an undercover job working at the Buy More in edict to be near his boy . That ’s veracious , a head full of state secrets and machination , and Chuck decide to keep thing on the downlow from his family and oeuvre at his same plain jane job . Go figure .

Morgan grunge : Chuck ’s best friend and geek role theoretical account . While Chuck has been bill as a show sport nerds as the main character , it ’s really Morgan who occupy the shoe of geeky fanboy . He diddle video games and shoots off character to obscure skill fable films , and face the part as well . While Chuck could be considered boyishly handsome , Morgan looks like a nebbish with his George Lucas beard and tucked in shirts . He ’s the comic relief , the best booster , and the hero to nerds , all rolled into one .

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So , what does it all boil down to ? It ’s your basic “ terror of the calendar week ” plot line , which is based on the flimsy conception of this one guy cable have all these secrets buried in his encephalon , subliminally . He ’ll see a packet boat of sugar , then a vent on telecasting , and of a sudden he ’ll remember that there is an character assassination attempt on the English Prime Minister plant to go off in moments , at which full point John and Sarah kick back it into high gear in an attempt to cross the plan . It ’s not really clean why John does n’t just shoot Sarah and convey Chuck in so he could be hooked up to every machine known to man as a bizarre Clockwork Orange sort of lab rat , but that would credibly make for some not so family - friendly television on Monday evenings .

Why should you care ? As a science fabrication sports fan , there are marginal character reference ( at best ) to skill fable mainstays like Star Wars and Firefly ( yes , Adam Baldwin has a self - referential line or two ) , but this show does n’t fit well as part of the scientific discipline fiction triumvirate of show that Chuck , Heroes , and Journeyman were supposed to make up on Monday nights for NBC . It ’s a little too much Alias meets The Man With One Red Shoe , and we ’re wishing it had something more science - based to it . Plus , it sounds similar to the plot of the upcoming National Treasure : Book Of Secrets riffle that ’ll be out this holiday season .

Just secernate is that Chuck has a top secret bionic implant , that he ’s part android , or that the electronic mail he receive was actually an foreign transmission and we ’re in . But this whole “ Oops I saw the secret and now I ’m the only one who might remember them ” undercover agent routine just is n’t for us .

Lesdilley