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…It is delightful to have the first season of Castle on DVD to re-watch enhanced with a nice selection of special features. Most of us are already in love with the series, and enjoying the beginnings of the second season, but if for some reason you missed this first season, now is your chance to get caught up. Read the rest of this entry »
Jane After Dark talks about why she loves Castle
1. Nathan Fillion is boyishly charming. I’ve been a big fan of this Joss Whedon favorite since seeing him in 2005’s feature film Serenity. I finally completed that awesome circle by watching Firefly last winter. Fillion has the ability to be goofy one minute and deadly serious the next. In Castle, he plays Richard Castle, a best-selling mystery author who’s raising a 15-year-old daughter Alexis (Molly C. Quinn) — and, in many ways, his free-spirited live-in mother Martha (Susan Sullivan), as well. Having killed off his latest fictional character, Richard found inspiration in NYPD detective Kate Beckett, after being called in to advise on a case. Now they’re working as pseudo-partners. Read the rest of this entry »
It s a sign of this dramedy s growth that we put Stana Katic s name in the headline and not just Nathan Fillion s. The season 2 opener was Det. Kate Beckett s best episode yet. Even though she was cold to Castle, I wager that old (and, fingers crossed, new) Castle fans warmed to her. Could be the auburn hair, or the sweaters…something different, and I liked it. Read the rest of this entry »
I just finished watching an early copy of this Castle episode and I gotta say that you guys are in for a treat.
Castle is trying to get back in the good graces of Beckett who is still mad at him for snooping into her business. The tension between them goes back and forth between playful and serious but never really goes into hostile. Read the rest of this entry »
PerthNow review [Australia]
NATHAN Fillion brings a very human touch to the hero of a new crime series.
US actor Nathan Fillion says no-one wants to watch super-cool, oh-so-perfect  heroes on TV any more. “People want to see heroes who have faults like everyone else,’’ he says.  “Superman’s a thing of the past.” Read the rest of this entry »
The new drama Castle puts a spin on the increasingly tired crime genre: it follows prolific but incredibly bored crime novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), who starts investigating real crimes for inspiration when he teams up with stunning New York City detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic)… Read the rest of this entry »
Now I’ll fully admit, I like watching Nathan Fillion on the screen, big or small, so my liking this show should come as no surprise, since it show cases Fillion’s talent and adds to it. But, it’s not just Fillion, Stana Katic does a damn fine job, too. In their respective roles, as novelist Richard Castle and Detective Kate Beckett, we get an interesting chemistry between the two, which starts out more terse and grows into a respect. Now it might seem formulaic, in that you expect the two of them to grow interested in one and other, but I don’t think, not fully at least, that that is the lesson we’re going to see here.
See, both Castle and Beckett started out underestimating each other, with Castle just seeing Beckett as hot “lady cop” and Beckett seeing Castle as this lascivious hack, but then they look beyond the surface and see more than what they first judged each other about. In fact, it seems to be a double wordplay, in that the show is about looking beyond the cover of a book.
Joining Fillion and Katic is an interesting and talented cast, each in an important supporting role to the titular character and his foil. One stand out amongst this impressive cast is that of Molly C. Quinn as Alexis Castle, Richard’s saged teenage daughter who seems more mature and grounded than her father, even though Fillion is very believable in the role as single-parent. The father-daughter interplay is one of the better subplots of the show, interplay that often leads Castle to a moment of epiphany in his current case or new series of novels, based on Beckett’s character, that are replacing his prior series, of which he just killed the hero within and ended.
In addition to Fillion, Katic, and Quinn, the supporting cast is full of excellent actors, such as Susan Sullivan as Castle’s eccentric mother, Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas as members of Beckett’s team, with Tamala Jones and Ruben Santiago-Hudson who, respectively, are the medical examiner and Captain that Beckett works with the most. While the show is not an ensemble show, there are times that it feels close to it, as the supporting characters each, as well as often, fill a scene quite well.
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Not only did CASTLE manage to keep me awake, it kept me laughing, smiling and most of all wondering how on earth anyone could fail to enjoy this show.
In case you missed it, CASTLE stars the ridiculously-likable Fillion as Richard Castle, an equally-charismatic novelist who finds himself paired up with Kate Beckett (Katic), a tough-as-nails NYPD detective, in an effort to track down a killer who has been using the author’s best-selling murder mysteries as more of a “how-to†rather than the light and fluffy page-turners that they are intended to be.
Do sparks fly between our two leading players? Of course! Is the episode’s ultimate baddie utterly predictable? You bet’cha! Does Castle’s overly-sexed mother and too-smart-for-her-own-good teenager daughter scream television clichà ©? Absolutely!
Yet Fillon more than makes up for any and all of CASTLE’s shortcomings thanks to the perfect mixture of flirtatious eyebrow raising and a seemingly endless stream of witty one-liners. So much so that I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun watching an hour-long police procedural.
Don’t get me wrong: I wouldn’t trade in my mythology-laden, dense and disturbing hour longs such as BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, LOST, and TERMINATOR for anything. But there is simply something to be said for a show that just wants to have fun†¦ and doesn’t make me feel like a modern-day luddite for not realizing that the guy in that grainy black and white video on last night’s LOST was revealed to have been vaguely connected to the Dharma Initiative four seasons ago.
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…From such unlikely kindling grows considerable sexual heat, not to mention professional discord as Beckett relies on evidence and Castle on his imagination in their pursuit of suspects. Fillion and Katic occasionally seem a little too self-conscious — a little smirk goes a long way — but ultimately the characters are too appealing to resist.
The same goes for the supporting cast, particularly Susan Sullivan (Dharma & Greg) as Castle’s gold-digging mother and Molly Quinn (My One And Only) as the precocious teenage daughter who cleans up the aftermath of his fun. ”If I have to keep bailing you out,” she warns her father after yet another trip to jail, ”you’re going to have to raise my allowance.” Kids.
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…Like the best actors, Fillion has a gift for adding depth to what could have been a superficial character, letting you sense a layer of pain and grit right underneath [R]ick’s flightiness without diminishing the “bad-boy charm,” as his new partner puts it, of his fun-loving playboy.
It helps, by the way, that the writers have placed [R]ick in a household with his daughter and his mother, each designed to ensure he comes across as more sympathetic than annoying.
His bright-but-not-bratty daughter (Molly Quinn) provides support, while his Broadway star mother (an entertainingly grand Susan Sullivan) brings him back to earth and lets us see why being a better parent is one of [R]ick’s drives.
As for Katic, she may overplay her character’s stern annoyance at first, but she loosens up in later episodes. Plus, she’s an incredibly beautiful woman, which helps hold your attention until the wittier side comes to the fore and may distract you from the fact that her co-workers have yet to emerge from the bland background.
The plots vary in quality: A future story involving a dead nanny is a little better than tonight’s opener; another involving a body in a rug is a little worse.
None of the episodes is likely to keep you up at night puzzling out the intricacies of the mystery, but they won’t bore you or insult your intelligence. Castle exists to exploNit the appeal of its stars and the amusing byplay between their characters, and it does that with admirable efficiency.
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