Join the forum discussion on this post - (3) PostsWalt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced that the 1st season of the Castle TV series will be coming to DVD on September 22nd. The DVD set will retail for $39.99. More information will be available soon.
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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Walt Bodine Show Part 2: “Castle” on ABC
On Tuesday I spent the hour in studio with Walt Bodine and Gina Kaufman for my monthly visit to talk TV on KCUR Radio. Here’s the second of two excerpts, talking about “Castle” that stars Nathan Fillion of “Firefly” fame and begins next week on ABC. We also got into the preponderance of network TV shows about cops.
Listen here (mp3)