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Yvonne Strahovski

The chicks of "Chuck" and other reasons to watch

I'm stuck on Chuck. (I just had to get that out of the way.) But gratuitous rhyming aside, I am loving this show. Here's one reason.

Her name is Yvonne Strahovski and, obviously, she's hot. But more about her in a minute.

Chuck is about a geeky computer repair guy (redundant, I know), coincidentally named Chuck, who gets an e-mail full of pictures embedded with government secrets that are somehow downloaded to his brain. He can't access the data, though, until he sees something related to one of the pictures. The NSA and CIA send agents to recover the data, but when they discover that the top-secret files are hidden in Chuck's mind, they have to protect him while getting his help with spy stuff.

So, Chuck is a secret agent on the side while trying to live a normal geek life. Jake 2.0 was similar, true. But Chuck doesn't take itself so seriously. The show has action, comedy, suspense and hot women. What's not to love? Maybe I wouldn't like it so much if I weren't a geek myself, but I am and I do. … continue reading

 

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