Scenes filmed in the Buy More often include background projections on the flat screens that metaphorically accent the events at hand. At series’ end, when Jeffster leaves the big box store for the final time to pursue a musical career in Germany, their departure notably coincides with the scene of cowboys riding off into the sunset. Earlier in Season 5, …

“Chuck vs. The Living Dead” opens with a pronounced focus on Orion sharpening an axe with a whet stone in his cabin hideaway. To what purpose? It serves as a controlling metaphor for an episode in which Orion clearly has an axe to grind with the espionage life in general and the CIA in particular, given the separation & endangerment …

Zachary Levi is making headlines again this week thanks to an animated performance and a new campaign. First, Disney released a teaser for Tangled: The Series, an animated series set between the events of the original 2010 film and the 2012 short “Tangled Ever After”. The series follows Rapunzel as she “acquaints herself with her parents, her kingdom and the …

‘Tis the season for announcing new projects! ABC announced that they’ve greenlit a pilot for Deception, a drama written by Chris Fedak that combines magic and the FBI. According to the official synopsis, Deception follows a superstar magician whose career is plagued by scandal. In an effort to keep practicing the arts of deception, illusion and influence, he teams with the FBI to become …

Zachary Levi is moving into a new phase of his career: executive producer. Deadline announced this week that Zac, through his production company, Middle Man, is working with Universal Television to develop Unidentified, “a high octane thriller with sci-fi elements, which centers on a CIA operative trying to protect his family from an unimaginable secret.” That’s pretty much all the …

Yvonne Strahovski and Zachary Levi both have new projects coming to television…sort of. They’ve each booked supporting roles on shows based on Margaret Atwood novels coming to Hulu and Netflix respectively. Per a press release from Hulu, Yvonne has joined the streaming service’s 10-episode adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale in the role of Serena Joy, wife of Commander Waterford (Joseph …

Broadway HD will livestream a performance of the hit Broadway musical She Loves Me to screens around the world on Thursday, June 30 at 8PM Eastern. The play stars Laura Benanti and our own Zachary Levi as Amalia and Georg, respectively. Both were nominated for Tony Awards for their performances, along with Jane Krakowski who plays a supporting role. The …

Yvonne Strahovski is about to break out those “Phase Three” moves! Deadline announced last night that Yvonne will star in the upcoming suspense thriller He’s Out There, which is a terrifying title in and of itself. Per Deadline, Yvonne plays a mother who comes to visit a remote lake house – never a good idea in a “suspense thriller” – …

This post is part of a series of mini insights into Chuck – Chucktoids, if you will – courtesy of G. Walter Bush, author of Unpacking Chuck and Unpacking Chuck 2.0. The first image of Shaw in the series (sitting on Beckman’s desk with his face outside the frame) and the first image of Shaw in Castle (with only his …

This post is part of a series of mini insights into Chuck – Chucktoids, if you will – courtesy of G. Walter Bush, author of Unpacking Chuck and Unpacking Chuck 2.0. On multiple occasions, shadows are also used to imply false or double identities (though sometimes hard to see in the screen caps). The most vivid instance occurs while Sarah …