Review: ‘Castle’
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‘Castle’ matches a mystery writer with a button-down female cop as cool as he is.
The detective tale is like yellow cake -- at some level everyone likes it, and with a little imagination you can do pretty much anything with it.
Which is why the mystery section of almost every bookstore is among its largest, and why television is inevitably chockablock with detective skeins of one form or another. Lately, we’ve been tipping toward Nick and Nora-meet-Sherlock Holmes. On shows including ‘The Mentalist,’ ‘Bones,’ ‘Life,’ ‘Eleventh Hour,’ ‘Lie to Me’ and even ‘Fringe,’ you have the sleuth-with-something-extra (He used to be a fake psychic! She’s a forensic archaeologist! He’s a cop who went to jail!) teamed up with a more standard-issue model, usually, though not always, of the opposite sex (on ‘Numb3rs,’ the cop and the math whiz are brothers).
The detective tale is like yellow cake -- at some level everyone likes it, and with a little imagination you can do pretty much anything with it.
Which is why the mystery section of almost every bookstore is among its largest, and why television is inevitably chockablock with detective skeins of one form or another. Lately, we’ve been tipping toward Nick and Nora-meet-Sherlock Holmes. On shows including ‘The Mentalist,’ ‘Bones,’ ‘Life,’ ‘Eleventh Hour,’ ‘Lie to Me’ and even ‘Fringe,’ you have the sleuth-with-something-extra (He used to be a fake psychic! She’s a forensic archaeologist! He’s a cop who went to jail!) teamed up with a more standard-issue model, usually, though not always, of the opposite sex (on ‘Numb3rs,’ the cop and the math whiz are brothers).