"Chuck" a new and exciting action-comedy television program that finally came to our screens on September 24, 2007 and had us all glued to our seats throughout the three seasons that have been aired and we are waiting for the fourth season with bated breath.
The story centres around Chuck, an average computer whiz who received an encoded email from an old friend - Bryce Larkin who was then thought to be a rogue spy who worked for the CIA. This email contained a neural supercomputer called the Intersect which uses digital encoding to embed the only remaining copy of all the worlds spy secrets into Chuck's brain - making him the human Intersect. This creates security concerns for both the NSA and CIA who have to work together to train and protect their newest asset.
CAST
Chuck Bartowski(played by Zachary Levi), is a normal, 20 something computer whizz, who works at the Burbank Buy More in the Nerd Herd division. He receives an encoded email which transforms him into a spy computer, this disrupts his day to day life and endangers all those he loves - so he makes it his mission for the first and second season to try and find Orion (his father and maker of the Intersect) who is the only known person who can remove it from his head and thus give him back his normal life. He succeeds in removing it close to the end of the second season, but when Bryce Larkin is killed and an imminent threat to the world exists, Chuck reboots himself with the Intersect 2.0 which also embeds not only secrets in his head, but fighting techniques, weapon expertise, music skills and many more. Throughout the third season he has to learn to control his emotions in order to control the Intersect and in so doing becomes a fully fledged spy. From the start he falls head over heels in love with his CIA handler Sarah Walker, who eventually reciprocates and moves in with him. The first time he kills is to protect Sarah from the evil rogue spy Shaw. The season finale sees Chuck retiring from the spy business to settle down with Sarah but his fathers dying wishes come to life and he now has to find his long lost mother. Who knows whats in store for Chuck?
Sarah Walker (played by Yvonne Strahovski) is part of team Chuck as the CIA handler who's sole mission is to protect him. She was romantically linked to Bryce Larkin and Daniel Shaw but revealed that she fell in love with Chuck after she dropped off her phone for repairs and before they disarmed a bomb together in the first episode. She posed as Chuck's girlfriend working across the quad from him first at Wienerlicious then Orange, Orange but ultimately Chuck's charms were too much for her and they ended up together for real and even moved in together. She is skilled in various fighting and undercover techniques which come in handy when trying to rid the world of evil. Throughout the seasons it has slowly been revealed that her real name is not Sarah Walker (and has not been released during the episodes) and that her father is a wanted conman who moved them around quite a lot while growing up. She can fly aircrafts and speaks fluent Polish. And it can also be determined that she has not been a fully fledged spy except for the past five years - because of the timeline concerning her "red test" where she had to eliminate Daniel Shaw's wife.
Major John Casey(played byAdam Baldwin) is the tough but fair NSA agent that is assigned to protect Chuck. Only scattered pieces of information has been revealed about John Casey's past such of which are- his real name is Alexander Coburn who faked his death and was given the new identity of John Casey when he joined a covert taskforce of specialized agents. He has a daughter he never was in contact with until the end of season 3 when her life was threatened by the new big bad agency known as The Ring. Casey hold a ranking of US Colonel, he can fly a Stealth fighter and is a world class sniper who has a eternal love for firearms. He joined Chuck's team as his neighbour and green shirt salesman at the Buy More in order to keep a better eye on him. He is the true American hero, who always puts his country first. He is also the proud owner of a Crown Vic - with a few modifications (like a missile built in).
Eleanor Bartowski(played by Sarah Lancester), she is the older sister to our hero, Chuck. She is a qualified doctor and until quite recently didn't know about her brothers after hours activities. Ellie gratuated from UCLA Medical School where she met her husband Dr. Devon Woodcomb. Because both their parents deserted them at a relatively young age - Ellie and Chuck have learnt to rely more on each other and create their own family. She has been the constant voice of reason and support throughout Chuck's life and she always urges him to make more of his life than work at the Buy More. After she witnessed her fathers murder at the hands of Daniel Shaw - she banded together with Devon and Morgan to save Chuck and his handlers from Shaw in the season 3 penultimate episode. Afterwards she asked Chuck to quit the spy business for her because her father made her promise to protect Chuck and she could not do that when he was off on his missions. 
Dr. Devon Woodcomb (played by Ryan McPartlin) is Ellie's husband and is nicknamed as Captain Awesome because everything he does is awesome and he also quite frequently uses the word - awesome! He used to play football for UCLA and must now get his thrills from cardio - thoracic surgery and extreme adventures - but admitted the rush from the spy life was too much for him. He speaks fluent Spanish and French and knows how to Tango with the best of them. He was the first person to find out about Chuck's secret life and kept it as a secret until Morgan found out - but during that time he was starting to crack under the pressure and felt he could not handle it anymore. He is very laid back and has gone to Africa for Doctors Without Borders to try and help out and get away from Chuck's secret for a while.
Morgan Grimes (played byJoshua Gomez) is Chuck Bartowski's best friend, together they work at the Buy More. Morgan's mother and Big Mike started a relationship and with that Big Mike took him under his wing and made Morgan assistant manager much to his chargrin - as he was more than content to stay under the radar as he has done all his life. He has been romantically linked to Anna Wu - who also used to work at the Buy More and the lucky bastard got to spend a night with the fiery red head, Katrina. Morgan and Chuck have been best friends since they were six years old, and most of the time Chuck looked after and protected Morgan from bullies. When Morgan found Castle - Chuck told him all the secrets he had been keeping from him and in so doing pulled Morgan into "Team Chuck", were he has proved his worth on more than one occasion.
As season four looms, with the shocking revelation at the end of season 3 - with Chuck's mother out there and now it's up to Chuck to find her and protect her (i guess) who knows what's in store for us?
Stay tuned, I have a feeling we are about to find out..........
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