Wednesday, May 13, 2009

JEFFSTER! FOREVER: The other day, Matt linked to a story about the music of Gossip Girl. Long before I quit that show, I remember thinking -- and possibly saying here -- that the music on Josh Schwartz's other show, Chuck, to my taste, was much better. This season only supported that.

Chuck's tone is basically goofy optimism tinged with occasional heartache. So it's no surprise that that's Chuck's musical signature too. Whatever the musical range of the artists chosen, Chuck's music supervisor (or Schwartz himself) seems to hone in on those bands' most jangly, optimistic, upper mid-tempo pop, sometimes whisper-sung and sometimes anthemic, but usually the kind of stuff you could imagine playing over a closing scene with the hero and his girl riding off into the California sunset in a convertible with the bad guys' headquarters burning behind them. Toss in a few angsty scottish breakup rockers, some 80s covers/tributes, and some musical puns, and you get the idea. Don't believe me? Here's my own set of Season Two musical highlights: (That last band, by the way, has a great agent: of the 17 songs they have on iTunes, two are used on commercials and one was licensed for a network television show). And while I'm talking about Chuck, TV Week via Sepinwall says that NBC sources are telling them that renewal prospects look good.

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