Chuck: Chuck Versus The Sizzling Shrimp

ORIGINAL EPISODES, MONDAYS @ 8PM ON NBC

Wow, alright then. I don't really know where to go with this review. If there was something to talk about that really mattered I feel like it would just come to me. After letting the episode sit for a bit, I still don't know what's all that important that needs to be discussed. While not a bad episode, it was sort of a middle of the road, filling the weeks type episode. Nothing huge in terms of character development occurred unless you want to count Ellie and Morgan calling it a truce, but even these two characters and their feuding weren't all that important to show.

Since I don't have too much to mention, lets start with tonight's mission. Chuck saw a Chinese military operative in his favorite Chinese restaurant and this led to the mission to capture her. As it turned out they ran into the Triad and figured out that the operative was in the U.S. to save her brother who was kidnapped by the Triad. We got to watch Chuck spend the night trying to balance his personal life and his secret-spy life yet disappointing his family and friends the whole way. In the end, Ellie and Morgan met him halfway and he finally found a way to be there for everyone in his life.

Ellie and Chuck have a special tradition where they celebrate their own form of Mother's Day. The day their mother left them all alone they had to stick together and fend for themselves. Since that day, they've celebrated it every year as the day they came together to survive. Unfortunately, Chuck missed the plans because he was off being a spy. He also missed his plans with Morgan who he was supposed to help become a better salesman to prevent his boss from firing him. I didn't mind the scenarios the writer's came up with to create family drama for Chuck but the Mother's Day scenario was easily the best. It was interesting to see a deeper side to his relationship with Ellie.

We didn't get much progress on the Sarah front. She's definitely falling for the deeper, softer side of Chuck. When he told her about the Mother's Day tradition and Ellie invited her, you could tell it hit her hard and she started to realize how much she cares for Chuck. She's starting to really like him rather than just pretending to as their cover.

By the way, Sizzling Shrimp? I'm interested to find out if that's even a real dish. I love shrimp but I don't know how great that looked.

Hopefully next week we'll get some more to talk about but overall I thought it was an enjoyable episode if nothing else. Keep watching, let me know what you think, and enjoy the review.