I make no secret that I hold to the sacred ideal "Nathan Fillion should be in everything". He's a charming, quirky actor who's not afraid to take the piss out of himself. His role as Malcolm Reynolds in Joss Whedon's Firefly is legendary and he's been predictably great in everything else I've seen him in.
Castle is a starring vehicle for The Fillion; a police procedural that plays like a cross between Murder She Wrote and Moonlighting. I've never been fond of cop shows or detective series, no matter how acclaimed they are (CSI, Cold Case, Monk, House)but I love watching sparky love/hate relationships like Lois & Clark or Demsey & Makepeace.
Fillion's crime novelist Rick Castle plays as a Fillion version of Moonlighting's David Addison; cocky, womanising, smug, rebellious and more than a little out of his depth. Stana Katic plays the straight lady-cop role and is capably cute in the pilot (but she's no Maddie Hayes).
It's classily directed by Reign of Fire/X-Files: The Movie helmer Rob Bowman and it's witty script comes from Airforce One/Hollowman scribe Andrew Marlow.
I don't know whether the remaining 9 episodes will be this good, but Castle has a bloody amusing, laugh out loud pilot episode. And Fillion is back. Maybe this will be the break into the big time he deserves.
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Just watched this today. Same old shit but very entertaining - mainly due to the mangod who is The Fillion. He's a funny Canadian.
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