By the end of the pilot, it is revealed that Castle will now be shadowing Beckett on all her cases as research for his next book.
What didn’t help was the lack of consistency in the show’s tone that often went from light-hearted gaudiness to a heavy sense of deliberate profundity so as not to come off as a “trashy mystery charmer” as Castle and his books frankly are.įortunately, last night’s episode where a nanny is found inside a machine in the laundry room showed a vast improvement in the show’s tonal elements, character developments and even the way the murder mystery unfolded – with several twists and turns, some predictable and some not. While Fillion displayed a knack for sinking into character (or is it the fact that Castle isn’t too far removed from the everyday Fillion?), Katic struggled to counter Castle’s egotistical charm and wit without seeming too stuck-up or devoid of all emotion.
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That’s what happened in the series premiere last week when Castle (brilliantly played by Nathan Fillion) and his foil Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) were forced to color in between the lines and recite stale, cliché lines. What works well for “Castle” on paper, however, doesn’t translate quite as strongly – as one would hope – to the small screen. The characters are interesting, at least title character Richard Castle is, and the murders are, for the most part, interesting and unconventional. On paper, “Castle” has the ingredients of being the next big cop procedural hit.