In a final season that has been “chuck” full of monumental episodes, “Chuck Versus the Kept Man” didn’t stray far from that pattern. Between Sarah’s possible pregnancy, Jeffster stumbling upon Castle, and Casey thinking about settling down with a woman, it certainly felt like there were only four hours left in the series after “The Kept Man” was finished.
Unlike a number of other episodes from this fifth season of Chuck – notably the previous two – the epic events from “The Kept Man” didn’t quite equal an epic episode.
I love John Casey as much as the next guy or gal, but the main issue of the episode was his main story with Verbanski. Their little game of cat and mouse was cute, but certainly not cute enough to keep my attention buzzing for 40 minutes.
As great as those two seem like they should be together, it has all seemed a bit forced during this last stretch run. Do we need to see Casey settle down with a woman? Or can’t it be enough that he is building such a great relationship with his daughter?
That brings us to the first part of this week’s Chuck Triple Threat. So order your bone-in rib eye as blue as they can find, and join us…
Heart
For me, Casey’s arc would have been perfectly complete if they just focused on his relationship with Alex. It is yet to be a great father-daughter bond, so making sure they get something strong going before the season ends would have been my first goal for John. Try to tell me you didn’t smile when Casey admitted there was another girl behind the scenes and the camera cut to him and Alex sharing a brewski. You can’t. I didn’t think so.
The other part of “The Kept Man” that got my little heart pumping quickly was thinking about little Chuckie Bartowskis running around everywhere. It was nice to see that first Chuck was spiraling out of control thinking about how to be spies and parents, and then Sarah was.
She has to be preggers right? She was lying to Chuck, or she misread the test, or it was a false negative, because come on, does this show end without little blonde baby bombshells? I doubt it.
Action
There were a couple of nice action sequences – Sarah barging in with the Hummer was a nice touch – but nothing to shake a stick at. Again, all of the stuff related to the Verbanski missions kind of missed the mark.