Over at Obsessed With Film, I review the distinctly average fourth season premiere of spy-comedy CHUCK, featuring '80s favourites Linda Hamilton (The Terminator) and Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV).
"The good news: Chuck's had so many would-be series finales (as the threat of cancellation forever snaps at its heels) that every season premiere tends to result in a necessary revamp of the show. The bad news: these revamps tend to become resets, and the status quo is reestablished soon after. Now in its fourth season, I get the feeling Chuck played its best hand last year (certainly the finale was a great place to end the story), and is perhaps running out of ideas. "Chuck Versus The Anniversary" wasn’t awful, but it wasn't great, and sometimes struggled to just be good. Is the survivalist spy-comedy showing signs of fatigue?" Continue reading...Just to reiterate; television premieres/pilots are now being hosted exclusively by Obsessed With Film, but consequent episodes will continue to be published here.
