Chuck Is Time’s #10 Best Show

As 2008 draws to a close, the urge to write Best Of… lists is upon us. While Chuck is obviously in our Top 2 (we got a little sidetracked by True Blood this season), it’s also landing on some Top 10 lists of people whose opinions you care about.

Kicking off the listmakers, Chuck lands at #10 on Time’s Top 10 TV Shows:

It was a tough year for primetime comedies, in part at least because of the writers’ strike, which threw some sitcoms off their game in the spring (30 Rock) or forced them to compress their stories (The Office). So it’s worth recognizing one comedy that came back from the strike tanned, rested and recharged. This spy comedy always had a meringue of a premise (an electronics-store clerk becomes a spy after an email turns his brain into a supercomputer). But season 2, following an eight-month hiatus, developed the show’s characters and romantic heart while still keeping the funny. On the strength of Zachary Levi’s nerd-babe appeal, the title character became a more competent supernebbish while retaining his everygeek charm.

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  1. Awesome Chuck would be my #1 Show of 2008.