What Makes the Show Special?

What Makes the Show Special?

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...
Why Can’t Spies Fall in Love?

Why Can’t Spies Fall in Love?

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...
Love vs Duty in Chuck

Love vs Duty in Chuck

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...
I Never Bought Them as a Couple

I Never Bought Them as a Couple

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...
Scene Symmetries in Chuck

Scene Symmetries in Chuck

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,...
It’s Complicated

It’s Complicated

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....

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