5.6 Chuck Versus The Curse Similarly devoid of any idea as to who is trying to make their lives hell, Team Carmichael decides to dig out the cabin in the woods set one more time. Elle and Awesome have a romantic dinner, while everyone is pursued by CIA operative Rebecca Romijn, who sadly is neither naked nor coloured blue in this appearance. Even clothed she’s fine, given the cartoon dialogue her character is given, and even manages a trademark pout when she’s finally outmanoeuvred. But there’s no BuyMore at all this week, though I’ve got a feeling that they’ll be back in force for Christmas. Into this mix they threw a rather odd idea that Morgan and Chuck had special boxes where they kept their most valuable things, or Personal Artefacts Never To Share (hence the acronym, PANTS). Morgan reveals this to Alex, who eventually gets to see inside Morgan’s, er, PANTS. You see, it’s an obvious joke, but one that’s set up over a couple of scenes and then never actually used, until me, now. In the end it just seemed like a guffin to avoid finding anything useful for Morgan to do, and to return Alex to the show. Since he lost the Intersect, it’s been a problem what to do with Morgan, although I’m confident that they could have come up with something better, and even funny, if they’d tried hard enough. Once in there, we see the doors locked, but minutes later they open the locked doors while the vehicle is moving. How? And, as it turned out, they weren’t being abducted, so why did the driver lock the doors anyway? Those and other questions were never answered. If the team behind Chuck can’t be bothered to even try, then why should viewers make the effort to watch? There are six Chuck stories left, and the Christmas story with the return of Brandon Routh is up next. Perhaps 2012 will see this show return briefly return to form before it’s too late. I can only hope. You can read our review of Chuck season five episode five here.
