Posted on January 31, 2012
By Kate Kulzick
Televerse Podcast
It’s time for a new segment, the Spotlight of Shame, when Simon and I spend far too long discussing the pilot of Touch. Then it’s a somewhat lackluster Week in TV before we spotlight Justified’s latest, “Cut Ties”, and we wrap things up with a look at fan favorite series Chuck, with Shawn Keown from the Zero Pretension podcast joining us at the DVD Shelf.
This week, we cover Childrens Hospital, Top Chef: Texas, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Archer, Fringe, An Idiot Abroad, The Fades, Downtown Abbey, The Good Wife, and Lost Girl.
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Adam Baldwin, Chris Fedak, Chuck, Chuck vs. the Goodbye, finale, Jeffster, Josh Schwartz, Joshua Gomez, Justified, Podcast, review, Ryan McPartlin, Sarah Lancaster, Shawn Keown, television, Touch, TV, yvonne strahovski, Zachary Levi, Zero Pretension
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Kate is a violinist by day, TV-aholic by night, and film geek by somewhere around dawn. While attending UIUC, she earned a Masters Degree in Violin Performance and a Schrute Buck in a Pop Culture Trivia Contest; of the two, so far only the latter has hung on her wall. Her favorite movies are The Princess Bride, Casablanca, and The Third Man and her favorite TV shows are Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Wire, and Arrested Development. 
I really enjoyed the DVD Shelf on Chuck, even with Simon’s resistance towards its charms. I’ll admit that part of what draws me to this show is the geeky side of it, so I can understand that being an obstacle. My favorite season is probably the second, and that momentum carried through much of the third (with the original run up until Shaw’s exit).
I elaborated on this in my post about the finale, but I’m with people like Shawn who think it totally worked. Like Kate, I figured they’d resolve Sarah’s memory loss well before the end, but I think the less straightforward conclusion worked better. I hadn’t heard about the fans’ efforts to get the show on the air in other format. I expect it’s a long shot, but it would be interesting to see if it could work.