Chuck
I could write an entire post on why Chuck is awesome – there are many, many reasons – but Sepinwall distills it so nicely right here:
The producers aren’t embarrassed to have Sarah do fight scenes while wearing the skimpy German peasant girl uniform from her cover job at a hot dog stand (pictured above), or, for equal opportunity flesh-peddling, to have Casey fight terrorists in his underwear or to have Captain Awesome shirtless whenever remotely plausible. There aren’t labyrinthine conspiracy stories that will never get resolved, no major angst beyond Chuck’s general queasiness at being sucked into this dangerous world and having to lie to his friends and loved ones about it, nor any of the other pretentious, convoluted qualities that often choke the life out of fun genre shows like this.
In other words, it’s not trying to be either Lost or Heroes, two shows that are conspiracy-laden and stumble into suckitude more often than not because of it. Chuck is Chuck – a comic spy show that doesn’t try to turn itself into Alias Part Two, or a weekly James Bond movie, but plays to its strengths: Chuck Bartowski, the kind of geeky everyman at the center of the show, and the funny.
And Captain Awesome shirtless doesn’t hurt either.