Anyone who watched The O.C. and liked it, will probably admit that what made the show appealing was it’s sly use of pop-culture references, geek comedy as well as beautiful locales and bikini clad cast members. Indeed, The O.C. was at it’s best when it mixed sweetness, wit, and an unwillingness to take itself too seriously. All of those ingredients mixed together to charm audiences. Thankfully, The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz has taken all of those aforementioned ingredients and mixed it with an action-packed spy show to create Chuck.
The premise to chuck is simple. Bryce Larkin, a former college friend and roommate who happens to be a CIA agent, steals The Intersect; a combination of both the CIA and NSA’s intelligence files on virtually everything. In danger, he sends these files to the only person he can trust, Chuck Bartowski(Zachary Levi). Chuck opens what he thinks is a birthday email to find a hypnotizing video encoded with millions of government secrets which all essentially upload directly into Chucks brain. Thus begins the end of Chuck, just an employee at the Buy More (a Best Buy ripoff) and the start of his journey into the dangerous and shadowy world of espionage, secrets and lies.
The problem is that Chuck’s head is now the most valuable and dangerous thing in the world. Enter drop dead gorgeous CIA agent Sarah Walker(Yvonne Strahovski) and NSA killing machine John Casey(Firefly’s Adam Baldwin) who become tasked with keeping Chuck alive, and using his newfound knowledge to take down rogue agents, assassination attempts, bomb threats, etc.
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