Last season, there were only a few episodes in which certain characters/actors did not appear. Maybe one without Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) and Devon (Ryan McPartlin), and one or two without some of the Buy More staff. In 3 episodes, Big Mike missed the first (Mark Christopher Lawrence), Ellie and Devon the second, and none of the Buy More staff, not even Morgan (Joshua Gomez) appeared in the third.
Strangely though, it was not a problem. They still exist in the world, and we are not afraid that we will not see them again, but when an episode's focus is purely on spy stuff for our leads, then we don't have a secondary plot for the Buy More as was customary before.
Still, this episode, where Devon got a real taste of the spy world, was awesome. Yes, Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and Chuck (Zachary Levi) are still far from where they were before, both still in love with each other and both claiming that all that exists in friendship, but that is also part of Chuck embracing his spy nature.
There has been a great shift in Chuck's attitude from last season. While he is still the Everyman, making small mistakes and being somewhat awkward, at least he's got the attitude down right. He knows what his job is, and, in this episode at least, he was not so busy being a real boy that he forgot how to be a spy.
And yet the laughs are still there, both at the delight of how happy and shocked Chuck is whenever the intersect works and allows him to accomplish something, and in the timely comments of the heroes.
And we have a delightful cliffhanger. Is Devon dead? What happened to him? Was he kidnapped? Will they get him back? What do you think?
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