Main Characters: Chuck (Zachary Levi), Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski), John Casey (Adam Baldwin)

I shall make this as clear as I possibly can. If you are not watching Chuck, you are missing on of the best shows currently on network television. It is extremely intelligent, funny, and is a dream show for anyone. Being an big fan of comics, and an electrical and computer engineer there isn’t more I can ask for in a show. I used to look forward to seeing Smallville every week, but the terrible writing and extreme liberties that have been taken in that universe has taken that down a few pegs. Next was Heroes, which started out really good, but has grown to be rather boring, and rather hard to even want to follow. Finally there is Chuck, which from the first episode, to now episode seventeen in season two, I have had nothing but pure enjoyment every week. Monday evenings use to be an evening full of drawing where my concentration was on my work, and the television was purely background noise, but the show Chuck has changed that and now gets my full attention.

Now that I am done with my rant, what is the show about. A young man that went to Stanford ends up getting kicked out of school for cheating when he is nearing graduation. Being crushed by the events, he goes to live with his older sister and begins working at a Buy More (imagine Best Buy with green shirts), as a computer technician. His former college roommate, became a CIA agent and during a mission stole the contents of a supercomputer with all of the government secrets for the CIA and NSA. Those secrets were sent to Chuck and were embedded in his brain, such that when he sees an image that is related to something that was in the computer he now sees the information and guides his CIA agent handler Sarah Walker, the beautiful Yvonne Strahovski, and her gun toting NSA teammate John Casey, who else but Adam Baldwin through various missions that always put his life in danger and saves the world in some way.

The show is very well cast, written, and executed for every episode and anyone that is not watching this show is truly missing great television. I am glad I was able to get my best friend hooked by buying him season one for Christmas, and I really hope that the show is renewed for another season.

Seasons are available in iTunes and are worth the cost:

Chuck Season One

Chuck Season Two

Growing up and watching the original Knight Rider I was a huge fan, but let’s be serious about this new series, it has been terrible. One of the coolest things about the original show is that one could actually believed the various actions that K.I.T.T. performed. In the pilot episode I was really sucked in when K.I.T.T transitioned to another color and type of mustang to evade capture, but please explain to me why it makes sense that a Shelby Mustang can transform to a Ford-F150?

All of that said, the episode Knight to the King’s Pawn really caught my attention and I found it to be quite good. I believe the direction they are going with the show, by killing off extraneous characters, and forming a small group with the possibility of restarting the Foundation for Law And Government may actually save this show. I will say that one disturbing aspect of the episode was Peter Cullen, the voice for Optimus Prime, playing as the villainous car that dare I say, transforms to a robot K.A.R.R. I really hope that this will be the episode that turns this new series around and that it begins appeal to those that were fans of the original series and new fans as well.

So my best friend has been telling me for awhile that I should check out the television series Dexter that is shown on Showtime. Since I have Netflix, I decided to add it to my queue recently. After watching the first disc over this past weekend, I have decided that I really like this show.

I love the way Dexter, played by Michael C. Hall, puts on a mask essentially to fit in with the “normal” people in society. Throughout the show, Dexter has various flashback which show his loving father cater to his “special needs” in order to ensure that Dexter becomes a useful person in society.

That of course is the nice part of the show, under all of that we are following the life of Dexter as he “takes out the trash” as he states, which is really a nice way to say that he is a vigilante serial killer. Part of his adoptive father catering to his special needs involved teaching him how to spot the evil doers, and kill them without leaving any evidence. Oh, did I mention that Dexter’s father was a police officer, and Dexter grew up to work in forensics?

Needless to say, this show was nominated for 3 Golden Globes for a reason.