Zachary Levi Star: Chuck

If entertainment “mogul” Zachary Levi has anything to say about it, Chuck absolutely will hit the big screen — but by specific fundraising means, at a certain time and in a way that benefits the NBC spy comedy’s longtime fans best.
“I want it to happen,” Levi shared with Michael Ausiello at TVLine’s Comic-Con interview suite. But rather than go the Kickstarter route (à la Veronica Mars), Levi has his own, detailed thoughts on how to usher the cult series into a Cineplex near you. Also, it won’t happen for a couple of years yet, he says (at the 5:00 mark), though for the most noble of reasons.

Also in this video Q&A: Levi opens up about his charitable goals for the Nerd HQ “empire” over which he lords, raves about having a dream come true with his Broadway debut in First Date (which “graciously” let him out of this week’s previews to keep his ‘Con commitment), and talks about playing a “very different” role than he ever has, taking over for Once Upon a Time‘s Josh Dallas as Fandral the Dashing in Thor: The Dark World (in theaters Nov. 8).

Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is the main and titular character of the American fiction television show television show Chuck on NBC. He is portrayed by Zachary Levi. UGO.com named him one of the best TV nerds.TV nerds.At the outset of the show, Chuck Bartowski is presented as a twenty something underachiever who lives in the Echo Park Section of Los Angeles, California and works at a dead end job at the Burbank Buy More in its Nerd Herd division (a fictionalized Geek Squad). Chuck's life stalled after his college roommate, Bryce Larkin, planted test answers under Chuck's bed and then reported him to the officials, which led to Chuck's expulsion from Stanford University (where he was a scholarship student) in 2003 — only twelve credits shy of completing his bachelor's degree. For a long time, Chuck hated Bryce for his betrayal, but he later learns that Bryce got him expelled to protect him from being recruited into the CIA because he knew Chuck wouldn't survive in the field. He also lost his college girlfriend, Jill Roberts (Jordana Brewster). Following his expulsion, Chuck moved in with his sister and began working at the Burbank, California branch of Buy More.At some point over the next five years Chuck becomes the Nerd Herd supervisor.

That's his job at the time of the pilot, when the viewers are introduced to the key people in Chuck's current life: his older sister, key people in Chuck's current life: his older sister, Eleanor Fay "Ellie" Bartowski, M.D. (Sarah Lancaster), her live-in boyfriend, Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb (Ryan McPartlin) and Chuck's best friend since childhood, Morgan Grimes. Very little else is known about his family. His mother left when Chuck was in the fifth grade and his father was "never really around" even before he also left (roughly eleven years ago), so Chuck and Ellie increasingly had to fend for themselves.

On his birthday in 2007, Chuck opens an email from Bryce Larkin that causes Chuck to download into his brain the full contents of a CIA/NSA supercomputer known as the Intersect, which has served as a database for their combined collected intelligence. Unbeknownst to Chuck, the Intersect computer has been destroyed, making his brain the only location of this top-secret information. The government learns that Chuck Bartowski was the last known person that Bryce Larkin contacted, so both the CIA and NSA (independent of each other) send agents to find him. The CIA dispatches field officer Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) to retrieve a copy of the Intersect, while the NSA sends then-Major John Casey (Adam Baldwin) to capture Chuck. The two agents eventually cross paths, and Sarah fends off Casey. They then discover that Chuck is a human version of the Intersect who sees a rapid-fire series of images (or "flashes") of intelligence from the Intersect database whenever his brain recognizes a bit of related information with his own eyes or ears. The two agencies conclude that Chuck must be protected and assign Sarah and Casey jointly to the task.

Chuck é uma série que começou no ano de 2007. Resumidamente, ela conta a história de Chuck - Charles - Bartowski, um nerd que não sabe o que fazer da vida, foi expulso da faculdade e trabalha numa loja de eletrônicos. Chuck mora com sua irmã, Ellie, e o namorado dela Devon, ou Capitão Incrível para os íntimos, e conta com a "assistência" meio atrapalhada do melhor amigo Morgan.

Num belo dia Chuck faz aniversário e recebe um e-mail de um velho amigo de faculdade (que por sinal causou sua expulsão da mesma) e sem saber do que se trata ele abre o e-mail que mudará sua vida. A mensagem continha uma série de segredos do governo e das agências de espionagem dos states e todos esses segredos vão parar na cabeça do nosso desavisado heroi. Daí em diante as coisas invariavelmente tomam um rumo não muito agradável para o protagonista, procurado pela CIA e pela NSA (agências de inteligência e segurança dos Estados Unidos, representados pelos agentes Sarah Walker e John Casey) Chuck se vê metido num jogo que não faz ideia de como jogar.

A série é um misto de comédia e ação, com pitadas de romance e um pouco de tudo o que você puder imaginar, e esse é seu maior trunfo, além de ser uma sátira ao gênero da espionagem, a série funciona como uma fonte de humor marcada pela caracterização dos personagens e das situações em que estes se metem. É interessante ver um quase adolescente nerd, com problemas de relacionamento e uma certa dependência e carência da irmã, se tornar um espião da noite pro dia, literalmente. Mas, o mais bacana da série é notar as relações humanas e os exteriótipos que se desenvolvem durante os episódios.

Eu não quero falar mais pra não ficar dando spoilers e tirar a graça daqueles que nunca viram a série, mas posso dizer que é uma experiência no mínimo divertida e despretenciosa, não há mensagens ocultas ou lições de moral, nada além de muito entretenimento e cultura inútil (quer coisa melhor?). A série está na quarta temporada e promete uma quinta (possivelmente a última), é exibida (periodicamente) pelo Sbt e também nos canais a cabo, mas também é possível encontra-lá na internet para download. Então é isso, bom entretenimento e até o próximo post.