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In case you haven't been following my endless blogging about the subject, I love Castle. I love the premise, the performances, the pacing... I love everything about it. I'm not saying it's the greatest TV show ever (I'm looking at you, Airwolf), but it's certainly one of the most fun, if discovering dead bodies is your idea of a good time. I mean, I'm no ghoul, but I love Crime Show (my friend's over-arching name for whatever police procedural is on at any given moment), and Nathan Fillion makes corpses and the stabbing stabbers who kill them seem like a hoot and a holler. ...Did I mention I've only seen two episodes?
One of the episodes I saw was the series premiere, which was understandably exposition-heavy. "Richard Castle (Fillion) is a famous crime novelist and overgrown kid, divorced from his second wife, with a studious teenage daughter and a slutty live-in mother. Detective Beckett (Katic) is a no-nonsense, crime novel-loving cop with a troubled past, and when these two get together, blah blah blah they're partners." Not to say I didn't like all of the set-up, but you want to see how the show goes when there isn't this big hump to get over. Luckily, the other episode I saw was tonight's, and I was still impressed. In it, Castle is now officially riding along with Beckett (he's basing a new character on her), and the two investigate the murder of a nanny, who's left on the spin cycle in a dryer in the laundry room of an apartment building. Fillion is still funny, and Katic is still humorless, although that only makes it funnier when Fillion teases her about not having had sex in a while. I've said this a lot, but if you mix up the personality traits of the two Mentalist leads, or the two Bones leads, you've pretty much got this show. Also, the episode is called "Nanny McDead," which is what Castle calls the victim. If that's too cutesy for you, then maybe the show isn't your cup of tea, but I'm hoping that eventually we see what drove Beckett to become a cop, and what happened to Castle's first wife, and those stories should darken things up nicely.
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I thought I could watch Nathan in ANYTHING, but unfortunately 'Drive' disprooved that. This, though, this one's easy.
So where's the specialized Castle FORUM & recap section already? Barbieland - sorry, 'Dollhouse' has one - this should, too.
I'm loving Castle as well. It's a fun show that doesn't take itself too seriously. Plus I'd watch Nathan Fillion watch grass grow.
I love Castle. I'm just worried because everytime I like a series it gets canceled.
Count my vote in for recaps and forum, please!
I love this show! Nathan hails from my hometown and is just the type of guy who got me into trouble, happily, over and over in my youth. Hopefully we'll start seeing regular recaps!