—Chuck These final episodes of Chuck are suffering from something many shows in their final seasons (and with budgets stripped down to being produced for the price of peanuts!) go through: we've seen this before. Jeff and Lester unwittingly help the government to avert some huge disaster, check! Ellie wants to replicate something from her childhood, fails, and then the CIA helps, check! The Buy More is in danger, check! And so on and so forth… but like last week, this episode truly did make use of its circumstances where it, thankfully, felt like an episode with its own identity. However, given the circumstances, I think this is an episode where that B storyline was actually a true detriment to the rest of the episode. The Buy More has proven to be a drag in the past when the writers didn't know what to do with it and basically decided to make Jeff and Lester sexual offenders — and even though season 5 has vastly improved on that and even though there was an actual use for them this episode, their campiness sort of downplayed Sarah's torturing. … Read the rest of my review here!
