"Thus, while his colleagues troop through a workplace comedy indebted to the rhythms of The Office, Chuck maladroitly dashes about in the company of the two government agents dispatched to baby-sit him. The NSA sends John Casey, played by Adam Baldwin as a buzz-cut slab of machismo. His job is to scowl like the butch older brother in an '80s teen comedy; Chuck's is to make him grudgingly proud.
"Meanwhile, the kid's CIA handler is one Sarah Walker, a sunny blonde who poses as his new girlfriend and, no less importantly, disguises herself as another strip-mall drone, a waitress at a gourmet frankfurter joint dubbed Weinerlicious."
Troy Patterson in Slate praises NBC-TV's Chuck.
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