Monsters of Television

Josh Schwartz über producer tweeted that, in his humble opinion, this episode is the best episode to date. A tall order given a series with a lot of pretty decent episodes. And this episode taught me many things.

One of them is that Josh Schwartz cannot be trusted.

While some information was revealed, like Brandon Routh as the Zippo-obsessed guy that was sitting on Beckman’s desk (Schaub? Shaw? Shoal?), there was also a lot of messy dialogue and the plot didn’t really do anything but demonstrate that The Ring has some really fancy equipment and the Chuck has not missed a step on the whining. Seriously, terrorist organizations need to stop targeting Chuck’s family members or they need to get Chuck in some Pampers.

Now, it wasn’t all bad. On a superficial level, it did have Angie Harmon and she’s a stone cold fox. And there’s always the Yvonne Strahovski factor. In spite of his “it’s my family” temper tantrums, Chuck grew up a lot to protect Devon. And we did see how Chuck is a loose cannon and how dangerous he can be given focus. And Buy More Fight Club was cool. Finally, they’re starting to build Morgan’s character a little bit beyond the man-child lackey to Charles Bartowski.

But, come on, Schwartz. Be a responsible producer. Don’t overhype shows. There wasn’t even any Bon Iver.