Castle

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 9, 2009
Season #: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 403 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 353 out of 403
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 403
  3. Negative: 33 out of 403
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  1. carterb
    Mar 16, 2009
    4
    Nathan fillion big fan! but in this he just comes of as smarmy, as for the female lead, I think a ballsy 30 somthing actress eg gina toreres would have spiced things up (and not because of the firely thing, I just think more avenues to explore) were left with a bland 20 somthing female lead who left no impression at all. As for the case I felt I was watching a bad murder she wrote. sorry Nathan fillion big fan! but in this he just comes of as smarmy, as for the female lead, I think a ballsy 30 somthing actress eg gina toreres would have spiced things up (and not because of the firely thing, I just think more avenues to explore) were left with a bland 20 somthing female lead who left no impression at all. As for the case I felt I was watching a bad murder she wrote. sorry nathan but this blows.… Expand
  2. mungostj
    Dec 12, 2009
    5
    he must have a ghost writer. Reminds me of Bones, she is smart & he isn't. Neither show is very good.
  3. TVCritical
    Jan 31, 2012
    6
    This show is not bad it's pretty good but, that's all this show will be just good not great not spectacular not awesome not fantastic not remarkable just GOOD. This show is very watchable and that's its best quality of all. This show boast a pretty sweet set and the thing that draws people back to watch this show is the good stories and good chemistry of its cast particularly the betweenThis show is not bad it's pretty good but, that's all this show will be just good not great not spectacular not awesome not fantastic not remarkable just GOOD. This show is very watchable and that's its best quality of all. This show boast a pretty sweet set and the thing that draws people back to watch this show is the good stories and good chemistry of its cast particularly the between the two leads of Castle and Beckett. The show has nice as aesthetics nice use of its set and pretty good use of guns. The only thing that's great (great is one above good and no higher) in this show is the acting of a select few of its cast and that's it. This show has a unique aspect in that a best-selling book author is used to assist in crimes with law-enforcement and how integral his family becomes to the show which adds a unique quirkiness to this show.… Expand
  4. zombiesalive
    Jun 30, 2013
    4
    I find Castle arrogant and unbelievable in his character. I also find the whole premise of him being able to follow police around to the point of questioning suspects and being allowed to go into situations he ends up in equally unbelievable. The personal stories are irritating time for a bathroom break when they start whining about not making their feelings known to each other, or theI find Castle arrogant and unbelievable in his character. I also find the whole premise of him being able to follow police around to the point of questioning suspects and being allowed to go into situations he ends up in equally unbelievable. The personal stories are irritating time for a bathroom break when they start whining about not making their feelings known to each other, or the heaviness of decisions over everyday problems. The stories can be interesting, but the characters aren't.… Expand
  5. Annie
    Mar 10, 2009
    6
    The only thing that will serve as a life raft for this show is Fillion's ability to make the mundane hysterical and compelling. Static is unbelievable as a cop and I found myself laughing when she tried to intimidate characters around her, especially Fillion's Castle.
  6. MeritCoba
    Jun 13, 2015
    5
    Forgettable
    That's what you are,
    Forgettable Tho' near or far. (after nat king cole) It is hilarious that a show like Castle gathers a nine from the users while the average score from the critics just barely raise it above a five. The gap illustrates the problem with user based reviews: you have a bunch of fanboys that give said show a ten - which is bizarre to say the least - and    Forgettable
    That's what you are,
    Forgettable
    Tho' near or far.
    (after nat king cole)

    It is hilarious that a show like Castle gathers a nine from the users while the average score from the critics just barely raise it above a five. The gap illustrates the problem with user based reviews: you have a bunch of fanboys that give said show a ten - which is bizarre to say the least - and nobody else gives a hoot. Who is going to comment on a show you do not like, hence do not watch?
    Well, I do.
    I just saw about twenty minutes of the show by sheer coincidence, and it reminded me of various other moments that I ran into this show. I recall switching channels when the advertisements interrupted and then forgetting all about it.
    In this particular episode the killer drugs someone with scopolamine so that person becomes a will less tool that can be used to perpetrate a murder. A murder by proxy, therefore. I wonder why not more murders are committed that way. In fact, we better hush this one up, before you know it, extremists my use this to send us waves of drugged citizens to murder the rest of us.. Why does the Cia not drug the water supplies of the IS and turn them into will less tools?
    Perhaps because it is nonsense?
    I sat totally baffled at this sheer piece of dribble and waited for the canned laughter to erupt, but none came. In fact, the whole show seems just take this in one serious stride and get on with it. Was it meant to be funny or meant to be serious? It seemed neither: it just came over as nonsense.
    The more baffling is that non of the people involved were actually funny. The male lead seems have problems changing his facial expression so it is the same most of the time. Of course he tries to place a funny remark here and there, but it just doesn't feel like it is funny. The female lead is even less convincing: she is there be pretty, flutter her eyes and gape at the smartness of Castle. You see that is why pretty blond women exists in shows. There is little to no chemistry between the two.. if there was meant to be one and thus no engaging dialog.
    I watched the show amble along. The main suspect had a watertight alibi and so an trap was planned by Castle(i got a plan, baby. Oh.. Castle you such a smartypants!) The suspect was informed that the guy he had drugged was set free because a rich uncle had put up the bail. This suspect thus feared that the guy he used would come to find him to take revenge.
    Oh my god. How can this guy, being smart enough to drug a guy to have him perform a murder, be so stupid as to fall for such an obvious trick?
    Again one piece of nonsense was followed by the next and it was somehow meant to be funny.
    I get it..
    But you know. If something serious is meant to be funny, then it somehow misfires when that serious thing is just sheer nonsense. But if it is sheer nonsense, the cast somehow should act accordingly. Instead nonsense was dealt with a seriousness that belied all funniness.
    It is as if the cast wasn't quite aware that is was all baloney.
    If that is the case, then that is the biggest joke of all, but I suspect that a more mundane explanation is that this show is hogwash and thus..

    Forgettable
    In every way,
    And forever more
    That's how you'll stay    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

81
#81 Best TV Season of 2009
7
#7 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009
23
#23 Most Shared TV Season of 2009

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 22
  3. Negative: 3 out of 22
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    42
    It's going for a screwball comedy/mystery mash-up, but Castle is just an implausible muddle.
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    50
    The pilot and second installment are fun but utterly implausible, and the chemistry between the leads is passable but mostly forced.
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  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    60
    There's nothing in ABC's Castle viewers haven't seen a million times before, but the cast elevates the pedestrian material.
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