A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

I THINK WE NEED A GOOD SPYWARE SCANNER: I enjoyed Chuck quite a bit, if just for throwaway moments like "Captain Awesome" and Adam Baldwin basically getting to play the Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne, once again. As Alan has observed, while Gossip Girl got all of The O.C.'s soapiness, Chuck has gotten all the humor (and Chuck is basically Seth Cohen). It's also reminiscent of Alias if Will Tippin were the lead rather than Sydney, and with an amped up sense of humor. It's interesting, though, that J.J. Abrams, whose sole directorial credits before the Alias pilot were a couple of episodes of Felicity directed circles around McG as shown in the pilot. (Seriously, I'm hard pressed to think of a more visually stylish pilot than Alias had, while this featured a deliberately cartoonish explosion as a major effect.) Not perfect, by any means, but certainly worth a spot on the dual tuner DVR.