"Chuck" Pilot (2007)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

McG

Writers:

Josh Schwartz (creator) &
Chris Fedak (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Chuck" (2007)

Original Air Date:

24 September 2007 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Chuck is a computer geek who gets a computer full of information zapped into his brain...information...

Plot Keywords:

CIA | Secret Agent | Beautiful Woman | Slacker | One Word Title

Cast

Zachary Levi	...	Chuck Bartowski
Yvonne Strahovski	...	Sarah Walker
Joshua Gomez	...	Morgan Grimes
Sarah Lancaster	...	Ellie Bartowski
Adam Baldwin	...	John Casey
Wendy Makkena	...	National Intelligence Director
Tony Todd	...	CIA Director Graham
C.S. Lee	...	Harry Tang
Jim Pirri	...	Father
Dale Dye	...	General Stanfield
Matthew Bomer	...	Bryce Larkin
Ryan McPartlin	...	Devon 'Captain Awesome' Woodcomb
Vik Sahay	...	Lester Patel
Julia Ling	...	Anna Wu
Scott Krinsky	...	Jeff Barnes

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Trivia:

Dropping a computer wouldn't severely damage a computer hard drive. At worst, it would damage the mechanical linkages inside the drive, but the physical damage wouldn't affect the data stored on the platters. The CIA/NSA would easily be able to recover data from the damaged drive.

Goofs:

Continuity: When running through the hotel to defuse the bomb, Sarah Walker is running in high heels. When she jumps out of the pool, she has flat shoes. The next cut, she has high heels again.

Quotes:

Chuck Bartowski: [Sarah's dressed like a ninja, stealing his computer] Please, not the computer.

Movie Connections:

References TRON (1982)

Soundtrack:

A Comet Appears

Pilot episode of Chuck should provide enough excitement for another NBC hit

Just saw the pilot for the new hour-long spy series "Chuck". It has a pretty amusing premise: The title character played by Zachary Levi lives with his sister and her boyfriend. This sister (Sarah Lancaster who I remember from "Everwood" as Madison) tries to get her brother to date again after a long-ago breakup he hadn't gotten over. Also hanging around is best friend and fellow worker in the Nerd Herd of Buy More, Morgan (Joshua Gomez). Then one day, Chuck gets an e-mail from his old college roommate Brice Larkin (Matthew Bomer) who's not an accountant as Chuck thought but a spy who gets killed before sending his message. Suddenly, Chuck has images in his mind. And a woman named Sarah (Yvonne Strzechowski) and a man named John (Adam Baldwin) start appearing in Chuck's store...This was a pretty fast-paced and humorous start for what I'm sure will be a clever and exciting new action series for NBC and should attract many Heroes fans (like me) wanting to watch something as entertaining while waiting. Should be another hit for the Peacock network! Directed by McG (Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle).