| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
Cute, creative and slick, this is one of the best new shows of the fall season. |
| 88 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
In a sense, Monday's promising premiere is the first in a three-part introduction, with each episode building on and improving upon the one before. |
| 88 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Chuck sounds like a regrettably derivative idea - a remake of "Jake 2.0." But it's not. Chuck is a blast. |
| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
While there are a a few too many "awkward-guy moments," there are enough genuinely sweet ones to balance them out. [28 Sep 2007, p.93] |
| 80 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
It's actually a kick to watch. Its joys are broader and self-consciously zanier than the CW series. |
| 80 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Chuck possesses modest charm, impressive stunt work and another mildly appealing reluctant hero. |
| 80 |
Newsday Diane Werts
The real-world intrigue is matched in dramatic flair by Chuck-world jeopardy. His store's fierce assistant-manager competition resounds as fatefully as saving the universe from evil. Which makes the dark light enough and the light dark enough to meld into a tasty escapist treat. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
The pilot is an especially persuasive hour of action-adventure, but subsequent lower-budget episodes preserve the esprit and suspense. |
| 80 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
The results aren't much different from a video game, for the violence on Chuck is pretty cartoony, but after watching two episodes I’m hooked. This is a fun escapist show. |
| 80 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Chases, stunts and explosions fill the funny, flashy adventure. |
| 80 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
The show has a happily palpable likability going for it, a lot of that courtesy of Zachary Levi, who plays the unlikely and in fact unwilling hero. |
| 80 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Schwartz's good eye for characters and cutting sense of humor--makes Chuck a thoroughly enjoyable romp. |
| 80 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Chuck starts a step slower, with more exposition in the first two episodes and no larger-than-life character like Satan to smooth over that, but by episode three, it's just as assured and entertaining in its own extremely similar way. |
| 80 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The series is part spy spoof, part workplace comedy, and it is a genuinely engaging homage to the nerd hero. |
| 80 |
Slate Troy Patterson
Their new show has both the nerve to link up twentysomething malaise and 21st-century terror-angst and the good nature to make the proposition look endearing. |
| 75 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
It's headed in the right direction ... fast, loose and fun. |
| 70 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
"The O.C." team of Josh Schwartz and McG keep this one fast and mostly funny, but it's no "Heroes." |
| 70 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Chuck is one of two new fantastical shows premiering Monday on NBC, making a Heroes sandwich. That's fantastical, not fantastic. |
| 70 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The pilot is full of dark, dangerous and sexy moments. |
| 70 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It's good, not great, and tonight's strong pilot gives way next week to a noticeably less stellar hour. |
| 63 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
For reasons too obvious to bother with, NBC managed to take a really terrific and fun premiere and somehow let it morph over the following episodes into just another take-it-or-leave-it show. |
| 60 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
Chuck is, at its best, cute--and that's not enough to keep up with the big dogs. |
| 60 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Still, despite Chuck’s zippy pace and fun dialogue, this nerd-friendly "spy-fi" show from "O.C." creator Josh Schwartz has plot holes you could drive a truck through. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Levi exudes an everyman appeal that may catch on with viewers, but the show's plots need to grow beyond the action-adventure tropes of 1970s TV if Chuck hopes to avoid being chucked off NBC's prime-time schedule. |
| 60 |
PopMatters Roger Holland
A good-natured show with a convincing sense of fun and a likeable cast, Chuck also has the wit, confidence, and grasp of the cultural climate to turn a running joke about a celebrity porn site into a major plot device. |
| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
A charming but underwhelming pilot.... The second episode is dismal, sucking all the air out of whatever hopes you might have had for that one. |
