Tonight at 8p on NBC Chuck says goodbye after five adventurous season and you are going to need tissues because there will be tears. I don’t want to spoil all that happens during this two hour send off, but I will tell you it is a perfect ending for the show.
Other things I will tell you to look out for is that Linda Hamilton is back, Mark Pelligrino who has played Jacob on Lost, Lucifer on Supernatural and Bishop on Being Human has a small role in the episode and he plays a bad guy naturally, Subway will be eaten, at least one explosion, at least one person shot, Chuck and Sarah do another romantic dance, Jeffster will take on one last song and there will be tears, lots and lots of tears.
Even though you will have a tissue in your hand as the credits roll, you will be left satisfied that this show was given the proper goodbye. Even though we really don’t want it to end.
Thank you to the cast and crew for coming up with a spy show that everyone in the family can enjoy. I will think of you every time I have a Subway sandwich and think of all the good times we shared.
Tonight at 9p Erica Durance goes from playing Lois Lane on Smallville to putting on the Wonder Woman costume for Harry’s Law on NBC. Adam needs to defend her because she has been dressing up as the female superhero and beats up the husbands of their abused wives; and now one of those husbands wants her to go to jail. Adam’s defense of her will lead to her having an emotional scene on that stand. So powerful that it is something you haven’t seen her do before and she pulls it off so Wonder Woman-fully.
Her heart-wrenching case isn’t the only one on the show tonight. Harry and Tommy Jefferson go duck hunting and see one of the tigers that has recently escaped from the zoo. When they go to tell the homeowner (played by Haven’s Emily Rose) whose property they were hunting on, she asks them to defend her because she might’ve committed kidnapping. One of the other animals has found a way to her home and she wants to get custody of the ape. Since she is a speech therapist she is able to communicate with the ape and she has taught him so much that she thinks it is cruel to keep him at the zoo as the only ape there. She wants to adopt him, so that she can get him to an animal conservatory and he can live a happy long life there.
Will Adam and Harry win their cases for their clients, you will have to wait to find out tonight when you watch the most poignant episode so far for the legal drama produced by David E Kelly who really knows how to pull the heartstrings.
We all know that Betty White is very funny woman even though she is almost 90, and did you that other senior citizens can be just as hysterical? On January 16th at 9:30p, she got some of older her friends to get Off Their Rockers and show those whipper snappers how to do comedy right. Since we were raised to think we need to respect out elderly, we forget that they can be just as raunchy as us if not raunchier. Well NBC will capture them doing things we thought they forgot to do and we get to laugh along with them. I can’t wait to have a hidden camera show that will make laugh so hard, I will need to be wearing what they are wearing, you know Depends.
On January 27th Chuck is airing its series finale on NBC and before the show says goodbye I had to talk to Vik Sahay about the show coming to an end.
During this season’s third episode something huge happened to Jeffster and the two men that had become like one split into Jeff and Lester. I had to know is that how their relationship was going to end on the show? Sadly he couldn’t tell me too much due to legal reasons. But what he could tell me is that about it is, “It is a huge change. It is a change that continues. Not saying how long or what happens.†I know that is not that much, but he then added that “there is a shift and the repercussions are massive.” Hopefully it won’t be so massive that we won’t get at least one more song out of them.
So on that note, is there any chance of Jeffster touring once the show is over since us fans want that? Sahay shared with me what singing on the show has been like for him and the chances of Jeffster hitting the road. He said, “I love the fans and I love that they want that. I will say this, for all the terror that it has been singing the songs, and I mean pure terror, I don’t use the word lightly. It’s been frightening. I have grown to love it, and relish it, and singing and the idea of mastering music and working with musicians and finding the art. It has been pretty spectacular.” So is a tour out of the question? He ended the answer by saying, “It seems very unlikely, but not as unlikely as it seemed when I first began doing it.” So that means there is a glimmer of a hope, right?
And what does he hope will be the end for his character, Lester Patel. He wasn’t exactly sure about that and leaves it up to the writers. Although there is one thing he would like for Lester, “I would really love, and I am not saying it doesn’t happen or it may happen or it is happening, I would like some sort of female in Lester’s life. You know where you get the feeling that somehow, someway, this sad broken train wreck of a kid is going to be alright.†When it came to who that lucky lady should be, he didn’t have anyone special in mind.
What will always be on his mind is the wonderful cast and how they have been there for him. He said, “for me, I moved to Los Angeles to do this show and I didn’t really know too many people and these guys did become a crucial base for me and family, if I can use an overused term. But they were each supportive in a way that has beyond vital for me. It is a little like leaving the nest.”
Now you know how he feels about the cast, what does he want to say to one of most supportive fan bases out there. He had a heart-felt message for you, “I don’t know what to say that hasn’t been said. It is a three pronged experience that I have had on Chuck that I feel is honorably unique to this show. The cast and crew of Chuck are an unbelievably special group. Then getting to play Lester, who I love and feel for and to have it happen every day. And then the fan experience, I mean, it such a part of the show. It is so crucial; it’s the lifeblood of the experience of being on this show that I cannot say thank you enough. I am so moved and touched by the attention and the care that they have given us through the years. We live and die by them. We are here for them. It is something never I will forget.” And we will never forget him.
At one point during our conversation he summarized the experience on the show as “utterly beautiful craziness!†So what “utterly beautiful craziness” does he have coming up next? While filming the final scenes for Chuck, he was flying back and forth from LA to Winnipeg, Canada to film a movie called My Awkward Sexual Adventure. Earlier this year he shot American Reunion, the fourth American Pie movie, and he said that the film that’s out on April 6th is going to be a phenomenal picture and that it was tremendous experience to work on it.
But not everything he does is a comedy, he also worked on a drama called Afghan Luke that is waiting for a US release date. He described it to me by saying, “it’s a kind of dark, gritty drama about Canadian journalists who go to Afghanistan for a story they believe is happening. While they are there they get themselves in to very big trouble because they are foolish. I play an ambitious journalist who is hustling for this story of the century in Afghanistan.” He added that it was great to get back to his Indy roots and enjoyed working with Nick Stahl, an actor who is admired for a long time and now calls a friend. He concluded by saying, “It is a cool, out there film.â€
I am sure this is not the last we will hear of Vik Sahay and there is so much more coming up on the horizon for him. So before the sun goes down on Chuck next month, you can watch all new episodes of the spy drama tonight and every Friday at 8p on NBC.
NBC announced today that Howard Stern will be replacing Piers Morgan on America’s Got Talent and I am announcing that I will not be watching the show anymore. Stern is not for me, his voice and schtick bother me. I know the Shock Jock is a big teddy bear, but I just didn’t want an obnoxious Brit replaced by obnoxious New Yawker. On that note, the show is leaving its LA studios for NY to accommodate him. I wonder if that means Sharon Osbourne will announce she is leaving her day job because of it?
Now back to Stern, I am sure AGT will lose a lot of viewers because of him. But they will also be picking up new viewers because of him. I also expect that a lot of the Burlesque and big chested women will advance to the next round.
On the woman of the show note, I feel for Sharon being sandwiched because a Howie and a Howard because that is going to get confusing for her and Nick Cannon.
Finally he is a big reason I am giving up the show, but it is also because I have not been with the winner since season 2. So thank you NBC for giving me back several hours during the summer.
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