When I first reviewed Castle, and it was a spring premiere, I had my doubts that the show would make it to the point that I would be telling you about the second season DVD, and had mixed feelings about whether or not I wanted it to get that far. Debuting about the same time as ABC's The Unusuals, I knew that at most one of them was going to get the chance to live to the fall, and frankly, Castle … [Read more...]
When I first took a look at Castle, I was a bit nervous about the delivery, and the back-and-forth sort of angle the writing seemed to be using. The pilot's inclusion of a scene with famous novelists sitting around with the show's main character left a bad taste in my mouth, and Nathan Fillion's main character looked as though we were possibly going overboard with the smarmy charm. After a few … [Read more...]
Mid-season efforts are tricky at the best of times, and as I recently commented this leads to a downward spiral of the audience's ability to invest in these shows. When competition shows, like The Chopping Block, are getting taken off the air after only a couple of episodes, we know something is going wrong. How can people be expected to tune in for these mid-season runs, when they … [Read more...]
ABC is premiering Castle tonight (March 9 - 10/9 Central), and apparently we need have no fear of ever running short on crime-related television. In this happy-go-lucky version of all things dastardly, Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) is a freakishly popular mystery author who becomes wrapped up in an investigation. People are getting killed in tribute fashion, copying the murders of Castle's … [Read more...]
