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Yeah, after the last five minutes I'm VERY thankful this show got a fifth season. And I'm equally thankful that Schwartz and Fedak are going into it knowing that it's the final season. That means they can build toward a finale without a cliffhanger jumping off point.

Chuck reportedly gets 13-episode fifth season pickup from NBC

Other than the fact that Frost was Volkoff's lover for two decades, the thing that set me thinking that was that Mary was absolutely convinced that Vivian wouldn't kill her. This led me to believe that she had a "Luke, I am your father" card up her sleeve if things got really desperate.

I'm still half-expecting Vivian to be revealed as Chuck's half-sister.

One of the things I generally like about this show is that it believes in the goodness of people, and rewards that goodness when it reveals itself. Casey's story line was an example of that, and so was the "awwww!" moment at the end with the piggy bank.

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Really strong episode. Timothy Dalton is giving one of the more entertaining performances on TV right now.

This was explicitly addressed early on this season. The work Papa Bartowski had Ellie do on that super laptop with the green sparks was to fix the problem that made the magic watch necessary. To recap: Chuck needs the magic watch; Chuck's mom blocks the Intersect for his brain; Ellie solves her...

I'm glad they're getting to the heart of the Intersect, and I liked that they showcased why it's not enough to simply plug it into a standard issue agent's brain. Chuck's geekiness and science background provide context for the information stored in the Intersect that makes it infinitely more...

No worries, Greg! Nothing to do with Sarah and Chuck at all. Just a bit of casting info and a plot tease to let Dave know that wedding planning and apartment hunts aren't all that's in store for our protagonist through the rest of this season.

We haven't seen the last of Timothy Dalton OR Linda Hamilton this season. And instead of worrying about the wedding plans or the apartment hunt. Worry about what Casey's doing down that secret corridor. It has everything to do with what Chuck is and whether he will continue to be valuable to...

I agree with Kevin. If I didn't care about the characters, having plot lines revolving around wedding planning and apartment hunting would be real groaners. But I do care, and I'm invested in them succeeding. It's also nice, with all the other heavy stuff I watch and all of the heavy stuff...

Yeah, it obviously wasn't Sarah. And Corina's recurring, so it couldn't be her. The other one they accused of being it, so obviously it couldn't be her. That only left Amy. That's the problem with a Charlie's Angels parody; four was already pushing it. Fun episode, but except for Morgan's...

What it lacked in believability it made up for in awesome. The general swinging the RPG over her shoulder and firing was the highlight of the episode for me.

Glad they're going to explore Sarah's family. It's fertile ground that the show has only hinted at so far.

Well, now you know you're right.

Apparently the reason last night's episode felt like such a concrete ending is because NBC originally only ordered 13 episodes. Executive producer and co-creator Josh Schwartz mandates that the last episode of a given pickup be able to serve as a satisfying series finale if it should come to...

There's nothing I hate more than when a show goes to great lengths to showcase what a genius the protagonist is with an intricate plan, and the plan the writers come up with sucks. Either it's riddled with plot holes, or any asshole could have come up with it. I have a few questions about...

My favorite beats with Dalton as Volkoff are the moments where he plays the character as actually bat shit crazy. So many villains in shows like this are simply evil for evil's sake. Volkoff is brilliant and sophisticated, but he's also a bonafide psychopath with parts missing that should be...

Pretty great episode. Next week looks even more epic.

Agreed. A great hour of television. The Chuck/Sarah relationship was at its strongest, with Sarah finally ready to go all in. The inevitable obstacle wasn't something contrived but something essential to the arc of the season. And Sarah isn't doing it to run from Chuck, she's doing it so she can...

Me too. The final beat with him futilely trying to pull the taped gun off his back was the hardest I've laughed with this show in a long, long time. Fun episode, other than completely ignoring the consequences of what happen in Thailand. If they didn't want to deal with the fallout of having 95...

I don't think it's an intersect. We've seen Chuck be imprinted three times now (four times if you count the Intersect suppressor that his mom used on him), and each time his brain was too overloaded for speech. Ellie had a surprised reaction to whatever came up when she typed in the password...

I think "The Cape" looks fun, in a "The Greatest American Hero" sort of a way. I don't anticipate great writing or acting, but it's nice to see a superhero show where the superhero actually puts on a costume and fights crime.

Rob Riggle was absolutely hilarious, and got one of the best death scenes I've ever seen. He's got a resume tailor made for this show, being both a credible bad ass as a Marine who has served in three combat zones and a comedian with years of experience. Summer Glau absolutely rocked that Nerd...

Lone Star was Fox. The difference between Chase and Undercovers was production costs. Undercovers was more expensive to produce, so it needed to hit a higher number to be financially viable. Considering that Chase continues to drop like a rock, I would guess that it's one and done for that...

Tonight was one of my favorite hours in the entire series. My favorite scene was Mama Bartowski's lemonade chat with Ellie, where she tells the story of the show's mythology as almost a fairy tale. Until that moment, it never really struck me that the story of Chuck and Ellie's parents is the...

Some would say it's a cheat that Chuck's mom is a spy, too, but they way they structured it I don't really think it is. It's because Chuck's mom was a spy who went missing that everything else happened. If Chuck's mom hadn't gone missing, Chuck's dad would have never become Orion. If Chuck's dad...

Good episode. But Chuck should have picked up the doll his mom bought for her granddaughter. It would have at least given Ellie something from her mom to hold onto.

That's my Monday night, too. Although I go 8-11 on Tuesday (Glee -> Raising Hope -> Running Wilde -> The Good Wife) and Friday (Smallville -> The Good Guys -> Outlaw) as well.