• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 12, age appropriate for kids over 14; suggested age 13.

• Is it any good?

  4.0

• Common Sense says

  Fun spy show is more about comedy than danger.

Why We Rated This for Ages 13–14

The good stuff

• Messages:

  Chuck is a reluctant spy who becomes a pawn in a turf battle between the CIA and the NSA, and the real spies sometimes suggest that the easiest way to deal with their internal conflict is to make him disappear.

What to watch out for

• Violence:

  Frequent martial arts fistfights and stylized hand-to-hand combat featuring knives and other weapons, but there's little blood or gore. Other fights involve guns and are more graphic. The spies carry guns and sometimes use them, but Chuck is a self-defined nerd who handles conflicts without weapons. Some explosions, car chases, and the like during missions. Some dead bodies shown, but the camera doesn't linger, and there's not too much blood.
• Sex:

  No sex or nudity, though there's plenty of flirting and kissing, and some scenes show scantily clad women (who are ogled a fair amount). Chuck has to access a porn Web site to disable a bomb (nothing graphic shown). Some innuendo/discussion of sex, but it's generally light, with little shown.
• Language:

  Fairly infrequent use of words like "damn," "hell," "crap," "oh my God," "idiot," etc.
• Consumerism:

  Some video games/platforms are mentioned by name, including Xbox and Call of Duty. Chuck works at an electronics superstore that has the very unsubtle name "Buy More."
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Some social drinking.

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