We’ve added 70 new screen captures to the gallery from “Chuck Versus the Marlin.” 

Here are the screen captures from the last episode we’ll likely see for a while. 

This episode was full of Yvonne and it was hard to choose which screenshots to put in the gallery.  As always, I try to keep it manageable and I think I got some good ones.

I especially like the Pita girl screen captures.  She was the best villain to date in my opinion.  What better villain to thwart the hot dog girl than the pita girl?

Sometime in the next few days I’ll put up a gallery for screen captures from the promo bits.  In the meantime, let me know what you think of these.

Enjoy!

We’ve added 70 new screen captures to the gallery from “Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover.”

Hopefully I haven’t gotten rusty at capturing screenshots of Ms. Strahovski. Although Undercover Lover wasn’t a Sarah Walker focus episode, I think you’ll be happy with what there is.

She was beautiful in her dress for the party near the beginning, and she has some classic facial expressions from her meeting with Ellie.

I’ve also taken shots of the fun little promos that aired throughout the two shows, but I’m going to save those up for their own gallery after I get the screen captures from Marlin up.

Enjoy!

I write this review with a tinge of sadness. At this point, it is unclear when we might see more Chuck, and in turn more Yvonne Strahovski. The month long hiatus was bad enough.

Nonetheless, I’m here to review Episode 1.13, Chuck Versus the Marlin.

While the last episode didn’t give us much Strahovski, this episode had quite a bit of her. The relationship with Chuck and Sarah was touched on a little bit more, which I know is a fan favorite.

The real special newcomer in my opinion is Pita Girl. I’m sad that she got arrested.

I’d love to see her back in a future episode even if she did totally kick Sarah’s butt at the Wienerlicious. I briefly thought about making her a fansite, but decided that would be premature.

I feel like the show had to have been picked up between Episodes 1.11 and 1.12. Before 1.12, the show seemed tentative and cautious. There wasn’t much about Casey or Morgan, and especially not Ellie and Awesome.

Then magically it seems that the writers felt they needed to invest more into these characters and we get two great episodes where we really see more of who these people are and what they mean to the world of Chuck.

The plot involving Chuck and how important Devon/Ellie are to him were well-played this time and didn’t just feel like extra baggage like it has in the past.

And then there’s lovely Yvonne. Once again, she gets to exercise her emotional chops by conveying everything she needs to in a smile, or a tear. She really plays emotion very well, and this is another great example of that.

But then she can turn around and give us amazing fight scenes. It’s every guy’s dream!

I’m sad to see Chuck go, but at least it gave us a couple of episodes to make us fall in love all over again and anxiously await its return.

Screen captures for Undercover Lover should be up tonight. Marlin likely won’t come until Saturday, though. Until then, hit up our forums and chat away!

After what seems like an eternity, I’m excited to be back reviewing episodes of Chuck!

Tonight we get two episodes, but I’ll take this time to boycott The Apprentice and review Episode 1.12, Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover.

Quite simply, this episode was amazing. It seems like a bucket of money fell into the production phase of this episode. It was so much more high quality (technically speaking) than other episodes.

Explosions were richer, the picture was crisper, and the story was perfectly edited together with the A plot and the B plot.

Though there wasn’t much to see in the way of Yvonne Strahovski, focusing on Casey for an episode was extremely refreshing. He’s too long been a shadowy figure on the outskirts of the world of Chuck.

Perhaps its the long hiatus that made me love this episode so much, but I think it’s also just a little bit of man crush on Adam Baldwin. He’ll always be Jayne Cobb to me, but he owns John Casey just as well.

I was also really happy to see Captain Awesome and Ellie fleshed out a little more. Though Awesome has always been … awesome … both he and Ellie have always been bit characters to the larger plot.

This episode sees them come to the forefront and really take on their own plotline.

If you go back and read my early reviews, I really ragged on Sarah Lancaster for not fitting into the show and being comfortable in her character. That’s all a thing of the past. She fits into Chuck as well as anyone now.

This episode didn’t have much in the way of Sarah Walker, but the promos during the commercials treated us to some Yvonne Strahovski hottie Australian accent. That was a treat all by itself.

Only one hour until Episode 1.13! The review for that will be up later and screen captures of both will follow this weekend.

Welcome back!

With two new episodes of Chuck airing tomorrow (in the US), the press is heating up again.  Today we have an excellent interview with Yvonne from the folks over at ChuckTV.net.

We have to admit there’s a little bit of jealousy on our part — okay a ton of jealousy — but we’re still happy for them!

To make sure you see all of their many Chuck related sites, Mel and Liz have split the interview over three sites, each with some overlap and some new stuff.

You can see part of it on ChuckTV.net, part of it on YvonneStrahovski.net and yet another part in podcast form over at Chuck Vs. The Podcast.  Whew.

As of the time of this writing, the podcast isn’t up yet but there is a teaser you can sink your teeth into until the podcast comes up later today.

It’s great to be getting new information again. After you’re done reading all of the interviews, stop back by to discuss it here or on our forums.

Reviews for the new episodes will be up tomorrow and Friday, and screenshots will be trickling in over the weekend.  Be sure to stop back by to take it all in!

There is an interview with Yvonne that has just been posted originally done by BuddyTV. Although the date on the post is January 10, 2008, I’m almost positive this interview is not new.

The questions are all in relation to the show before it even began, and I had a strong sense of Deja Vu when reading over Yvonne responses.

Still, I couldn’t be sure so I thought I might as well post it up to feed the Yvonne Strahovski starved masses.  Inevitably there will be those fans out there that missed this interview the first time around.

With new episodes just around the corner, hopefully things will heat up again in the world of Yvonne Strahovski before they slow back down in anticipation for further news.

What do you think? Is this interview just a rehash of an old interview?

Our chance to see the lovely Yvonne Strahovski in new episodes of Chuck has finally been announced.  There are two more episodes slated for the year, with the remainder in limbo due to the writer’s strike.

BuddyTV is reporting that the two episodes will air on the same night, January 24, 2008.

Not only is it odd that they’re both airing on the same night, but they’re also airing on a Thursday which is way outside of the Monday night timeslot.

I’m not sure what NBC is thinking with this move, but the Chuck faithful will be there regardless.

As always, screen caps will follow the airing of the two shows!

A new year is upon us and it looks bright for our favorite actress, Yvonne Strahovski.

Though the writer’s strike still threatens the second half of the season for Chuck, it seems certain that we’ll see Chuck return some time in 2008. When it does, you can count on Strahotski.com to bring you updated screen captures and episode reviews.

In addition, Yvonne stars in The Canyon which will be released this year. With any luck, we’ll also see the US premieres of films such as The Plex and Persons of Interest.

To start off the year, let’s catch up on what we missed during the holidays:

• Chuck was named IGN’s best new series, and Sarah and Chuck were named the year’s couple we most rooted for.
• Sarah Walker was named IGN’s best TV Character of 2007.
• Yet another interview with the cast from Televisionary verifies that Ms. Strahovski has indeed heard of Strahotski.com. Yay!
• Chuck is still up for voting in the People’s Choice Awards for Favorite new TV Comedy. Be sure to vote! The more acclaim Chuck gets, the more Yvonne Strahovski we’ll get and that’s a winning proposition if I ever heard one.

If you have any news we’ve missed, let us know! If you just want to talk about Yvonne with fellow fans, check out our forums.

Happy Holidays from Strahotski.com!

Rob and I couldn’t be happier with the community that’s built up around the site, and in this time of giving we’d just like to say thank you to all of you who have made this site so successful.

With Chuck on hiatus and the holidays upon us, our post count may slow down a bit over the next week or two, but I’ve compiled a list of things you can do to keep Yvonne close during the holidays.

• Visit the Strahotski Forums — they’re extremely active and it’s a great place to bond with fellow Yvonne fans!
• Get Strahotski Gear — nothing says lovin’ like a “Got Strahovski?” t-shirt. Impress you friends and attract new Yvonne fans!
• Check out the Strahotski Gallery — it doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen them before, there’s no such thing as too much Yvonne!
• Read Chuck Reviews — I wrote my reviews on each episode, catch up during the offtime! Give us your take in the comments.
• Deck the Halls — with 5 fan wallpapers and 7 official Strahotski wallpapers, you can adorn every computer you find with Ms. Strahovski!

With that much stuff to do, you can always get your Yvonne fix as we wait for the return of Chuck and the other exciting projects that Yvonne has in store.

Lastly, we’d like to wish a special Happy Holidays to Yvonne.

Without her, this community would never have been able to come together. Feel free to leave your Holiday wishes for Yvonne in the comments. Who knows if she’ll read it, but it’s the thought that counts, right?

Reader Tungsten just tipped me off on the forums to an interview with Adam Baldwin and the lovely Yvonne Strahovski.

It’s a great interview that you can read here, but I want to quote this particular part:

Yvonne: Actually getting back to Stra”hot”ski (Yvonne raises this from an earlier conversation)…Zach coined that

Baldwin: He coined that phrase?

Yvonne: He started using it as a website (jokingly)

Baldwin: Isn’t there a hotski.com website?

Yvonne: Strahotski.com

Baldwin: Nice. Have you seen Strahotski.net? Porn (laughs). A little different (cracks up)

Yvonne: There is a Strahovski.net, I think…

I have no words. I think it stands on its own. I might go weep with joy now.

I should point out that Strahotski.net actually redirects to this site.