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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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FORGET the crimes. Ignore the clues. Never mind the cops and criminals. When it comes to a show like Castle, the only thing that really matters is the chemistry.

At first glance, this new ABC series — which premieres Monday at 9 p.m. — seems like a police drama, filled with all the requisite murder and mayhem and investigative mumbo-jumbo leading to an episode-ending, climactic application of the cuffs. [Read more...]

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Judging by the timeslot it’s given Castle — it premieres at 10 p.m. ET Monday, March 9, after the network’s top-rated show, Dancing with the Stars — ABC seems to think it’s found the show to break that drought. And while the first two episodes have some good moments — thanks in large part to Firefly and Waitress star Nathan Fillion in the title role — the show doesn’t immediately announce itself as a hit…. [Read more...]

…Granted, as series premises go, a mystery novelist solving actual crimes isn’t exactly the freshest idea in the world, but there’s a reason the show is called “Castle,” not “Murder, He Wrote.”

This new series is carried stylishly and confidently by Fillion in what may be the best role of his career to date after a fairly thankless stint as Dana Delany’s philandering husband on “Desperate Housewives.” In fact, Fillion was filming that other ABC series when the “Castle” executive producers scheduled a meeting with him.

“I never do this in a meeting, but I said, ‘Listen, I am so this guy. This is me. I can do this forwards, backwards and blindfolded. This is what I love to do,’ ” Fillion recalls. “The script just spoke to me. Here’s a guy who is having fun every day, having adventures, getting away with something. That’s what I want my life to be like. In my real life, I sit around a living room and talk to people, so in my work life, I’d like it to be an adventure like Rick Castle.”

It certainly wasn’t a stretch to capture Rick’s reluctance to grow up, adds Fillion, 37, who admits that his own inner child is still pretty rambunctious.

“When I was a kid we weren’t spoiled with a lot of toys,” he says. “We have a family joke that when we were kids, we had two toys: Legos and a stick. My parents expected us to use our imagination. Now I’m older and have more disposable income, so I look on the Internet and see an electric skateboard that will carry a guy my size 14 miles an hour, and I’m buying that thing. That’s what I use to go down the corner to get groceries.”

The show gets additional zing from “Dharma & Greg” veteran Susan Sullivan, romping through her scenes as Rick’s madcap actress mom, Martha Rodgers.

“Susan kind of blows in and out of episodes,” Fillion says. “She comes in like a hurricane, does her bit and mixes things up and then blows out again. What is so great about her scenes is that Susan is an actress who just truly understands comedy. Her comedic instincts are phenomenal, so you really get the impression that Martha Rodgers has a life before she arrives into the scene and she has one after she blows out of it. You just get the very real sense that she’s part of a real world that we’re just getting little tastes of.

“One of the things I love most is you get the distinct idea that Castle has a mother who is not very maternal, and yet he has a daughter who is. Rick mothers his mother and is mothered by his daughter.”

Yet at the core of “Castle” is the prickly relationship between Rick and Kate, and series creator Andrew Marlowe insists that he and fellow executive producer Rob Bowman are in no rush to turn up the romantic heat between these two characters.

“(Rick) is looking for a new main character … and (Kate) becomes his muse, the new character for his next best-selling set of novels, so he pulls some strings to allow himself to become her unofficial partner on cases,” Marlowe says. “Castle approaches the investigation from the point of view of ‘What is the story?’ So he brings in a storytelling point of view, whereas Beckett, who is a good cop, is all about the evidence. You have the two of them investigating the crime from different points of view, and their styles and their personalities clash, and that’s where the sparks fly.”

“I think what you’re really asking is: ‘Are they going to blow it early?’ ” Fillion says. “No, I don’t think they’re going to do that. I think you’re going to be very happy and very comfortable with the pace at which they do things. I think we all learned a valuable lesson from ‘Moonlighting,’ in that once (David and Maddie) got together, that show was over. Here, you have two people who are very attracted to each other and have a real interest in each other, but at the same time they are diametrically opposed (to each other) in a lot of different ways that are going to keep them separated.”

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