I loved seeing Laurel Holloman as the aggrieved widow. She is a great character actressand looked so different than she did Sunday night at the HBO Emmy after party in her red designer gown!. I just wish we had seen more of her. I hand't seen Castle before, and loved Det. Kate. I found the mystery writer irritating.

Many of us tuned in to Castle for the first time to see the wonderful actress Laurel Holloman.  As usual, she gave a fine performance. My only disappointment was that she was on screen for such a limited time. But some of Laurel is better than none of Laurel.  Her many fans  would love to see her in a continuing role on this, or some other quality network show, where her outstanding abilties would be seen and enjoyed by an even wider audience than that which followed her every week in the groundbreaking Showtime series The L Word. Ms Holloman deserves our applause and appreciation for her always nuanced, always beautifully targeted performances. Thank you, Laurel. Thank you, producers of Castle .

Laurel Holloman's performance in this was absolutley great. She did a fantatsic job, as she always does. I just wish her part was bigger, but it was still great to see her in something. I hope she gets a regular on a some show or something soon because she deserves it and it would be awesome to see her on a regular bases again. I have watched Castle from the beginning and I enjoy the show a lot.

Hi Site Administrator (what do your friends call you?)

Laurel was a beloved cast member of The L Word for 6 Seasons.  So, yes, if you cast Laurel in a show, expect a big spike in viewership for that episode.  Then it's up to you guys to keep us coming back, eh?

Hi again,

About the ratings … they could turn around, maybe you didn't have a good lead in?  In any case, I don't think casting Laurel (or anyone other than a mega-star) on your show can turn around bad ratings.  But way more people watched last night than would have had she not been on the show.  Of that I'm certain.

Thanks for your good work running the site!

Ms. Laurel  Holloman's performance was so great!   Once again she showed us how amazing actress she is and there's no question about it. Two thumbs -up for Ms. Holloman and more power to the cast and crew of Castle .17 

Well, I for one watched the show for the first time last night because Laurel was on it.  I can tell you that there were many people all around the world that watched that episode for the first time last night because of her, so maybe you need to check the ratings again.  I thought Laurel did a great job but agree the part was very short.  It seemed to me that the episode really revolved around only Nathan and Stana's characters.  Is this the same in all episodes or do you have other guests with an actual story line associated with them?

I will watch another episode so that I can judge it on more than one viewing, but I have to say that it didn't really grab me from the start.