It’s no secret that the end of Chuck was, for most of its fans, disappointing. It is not just that the ending can seem to leave the crucial question between the show’s central pair–Chuck ...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2019/04/08/magical-kissing-chuck-tv/
In my Chuck book, I mention that my other favorite show is Buffy. I ran across this paragraph in a ‘cuts’ section of my manuscript. It needs elaboration, sure, but I thought it of interes...
In my *Chuck* book, I half-jokingly remark that the entire series could have been entitled “Chuck vs. Chuck”. Half-joked–because there is considerable truth in that remark. Chuck’s prim...
I love when writers so arrange words or events or characters that a line that would ordinarily be clichéd or hackneyed, conversational jetsam that means little, if anything at all, becomes truly...
This is the second in the short series of essays on S3. Spoilers! No other moment in Chuck more decisively shapes the entire series than the moment when Chuck meets Sarah at the train station ...
An essay about a central question of S3. I will be posting a least one or two more such essays in the next few of weeks. Spoiler warning for anyone watching the show for the first time. For m...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2016/05/08/s3-question-1-why-doesnt-sarah-believe-chuck/
One way of thinking about comedy is to think of it as typically progressing from disorder to order, from a state of disquiet and unrest to one of rest. The scene of the disorder can be a place�...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2016/04/24/a-clown-world-why-the-buy-more/
Ed Mooney has written a lovely little essay at Zeteo–an essay that starts with some of my comments on Chuck and Sarah’s wedding.
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2015/05/17/ed-mooney-love-and-self-knowledge-chuck/
Auburn philosophy professor Kelly Jolley discusses his upcoming book on cult TV show ‘Chuck’ | The War Eagle Reader.
Thinking about Chuck, Reading Chuck Chuck artfully grafts a spy thriller onto a romantic comedy. It deepens the romantic comedy by including within it two complementary Bildungsromane, the sto...
https://kellydeanjolley.com/2015/05/12/introduction-thinking-about-chuck-reading-chuck/