by Francesco Scinico | Mar 20, 2022 | All Seasons
Some viewers love the show but only look at the surface—Chuck and Sarah’s relationship, the spy action, the chemistry of the characters, and the comedy of the Buy More. But if we were to do that, we would miss out because the show is more than what we see on the...
by Francesco Scinico | Nov 7, 2021 | All Seasons
One fan of the show asks, “One thing I’ve never really understood is that everyone gave Chuck and Sarah crap for falling in love saying, “spies don’t fall in love” and “feelings are a liability.” Yet Sarah was involved with...
by Francesco Scinico | Oct 18, 2021 | All Seasons
Chuck is a love story set in a world where love is considered a liability. The theme of love vs duty is as old as human literature but the version explored in Chuck more closely resembles that of Star Wars—the spies in Chuck’s world are the Jedi knights in Star...
by Francesco Scinico | Jun 6, 2021 | All Seasons
AChuck fan recently wrote, “This is probably the most unpopular opinion for Chuck fans but I never bought Chuck and Sarah as a couple. Someone like Sarah it seems like wouldn’t be all doe-eyed over a guy, which is not to say I think she’d be...
by Francesco Scinico | May 8, 2021 | All Seasons
As Kelly Dean Jolley writes in his Chuck book, Chuck “is a show of patterns: of duplications, of symmetries, of echoes, of types and anti-types. It is animately, virtuosically contrapuntal–like Bach. It speaks an elaborate language of images, events,...
by Francesco Scinico | Apr 2, 2021 | All Seasons
Spy love is. How do you truly love in a world that thrives on lies and deception and where true feelings are a liability? How do you even know it’s true love? Chuck and Sarah fall in love with each other from the very beginning but their relationship is complicated....