5.4 Chuck Versus The Business Trip What we got instead was Chuck claiming to be Morgan, hunting a CIA hired killer called the Viper sent to kill his buddy, in a sort of TV painting-by-numbers way. The word ‘formulaic’ doesn’t really do justice to how on-rails this seemed at times, and they also seem to want to loop back to the old Sarah issues about having a ‘normal’ life, something I thought we’d dispensed with a couple of seasons ago. There wasn’t much in here that was remotely crazy, and even Lester’s attempts to turn Jeff back into the bozo he normally is seemed rather tame and unimaginative. Overall, it had me reaching for the cheese balls so that I can bulk up for Christmas. I’m going to keep this review short, because I don’t want to dig this show a deeper hole than the latest viewing figures suggest, but it wasn’t classic Chuck or anywhere near it. Chuck won’t now return to our screens until Friday the 9th of December, when I’m hoping that this final series can deliver some consistency and better stories than this episode presented. You can read our review of Chuck season 5 episode 3 here.
