This website has gathered reviews from 22 critics. Go to the website for links to the full reviews.
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Chuck averages 74 on a scale from 0 to 100.
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 Bianculli
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.
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.