Castle season 5 review

Ladies and gentlemen, we have just seen Stana Katic’s best work of the entire season. See the relaxed vibe of Beckett in the photo to the left? Well, we’re not sure that Beckett felt this way once during the “Castle” episode “Recoil” on Monday night. This episode brought us the return of Jack Coleman as […]

If you are someone who wants to see “Castle” turned into some long-form serial, Monday night’s episode “Death Gone Crazy” likely felt like a disappointment. There was no movement forward in the Castle / Beckett storyline, and there was also no introduction of a person who will play a role in the larger story. On […]

After spending so many weeks focusing primarily on the relationship between Castle and Beckett, Monday night’s new “Castle” season 5 episode decided to change course and give us a taste of the man Esposito is, and the troubled kid that he was once. While the case itself was a relatively routine DJ-is-murdered-by-a-pop-star-orchestrating-a-publicity-stunt-gone-awry storyline (you know, […]

What happens when you have your girlfriend and your ex-wife in the same place? As Monday night’s “Castle” season 5 episode best described it, chaos ensues. Rick made a huge blunder straight out of the game in allowing Meredith to actually stay at his place, and he then spent the remainder of the hour trying […]

For a good chunk of Monday night’s new episode of “Castle” season 5, it did not entirely feel as though our leading man here was going to have much of a Merry Christmas at all, at least when it came to some of his annual traditions. Alexis wanted to spend the night away thanks to […]

When you have at least 22 episodes in a season, you have to get a little bit creative from time to time; with that in mind, Monday night’s new episode of “Castle” season 5 brought us a rather experimental episode that played out in a format that we have not really seen on the show […]

If you love science fiction, then watching “Castle” season 5 pay a visit to a fictional convention was probably a slice of space-themed heaven. Most murder-mystery shows would have transformed this sort of event into a subtle mockery of sci-fi geeks, but like its star in Nathan Fillion, the script really embraced them and created the strongest hour of […]

After a week off the air thanks to a Presidential debate, Monday night’s new episode of “Castle” came back with a bang thanks to a story with a very key twist: rather than investigating someone else for a murder, they were instead looking at Nathan Fillion’s title character as a suspect. Did Richard Castle really […]