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I’ll watch reruns for a year

So I watched Castle during its original run from 2009-2016, and I loved it. It reminded me loosely of me and my wife. I’m a writer, married to a woman with good looks, a high EQ and who is totally no-nonsense, so I’m like Castle and she’s like Beckett… to a point 😉

The show opens with playboy writer Rick Castle, wooing his lovely fans, and Detective Kate Beckett, taking names and solving crimes. Her two detectives, Kevin Ryan and Javier Esposito, round out the cast along with the precinct Captain and the attractive ME.

Lovely Stana Katic plays Beckett, who is as smart and sarcastic as she is lovely and skillful. Nathan Fillion is great as the title character, “ruggedly handsome?” and with a cheesy sense of humor and wild imagination to rival mine.

Seamus Deaver and Jon Huertas (the latter also later of This is Us fame) are Ryan and Esposito, and don’t forget pretty Molly Quinn as Castle’s daughter, Alexis, and veteran Susan Sullivan as Castle’s lively actress mom, Martha Rodgers.

The show is not R-Rated and has some slightly slinky content, but nothing too bad. There is some graphic content with regard to the various murders. However, overall, the show seems tame by today’s standards.

I watch two to three episodes per week after work, before my wife comes home. We used to watch it together, but she’s moved on to newer things. It will probably take me a year to binge the whole seven seasons, so it’s more of a saga watch than a binge watch. A retrospective I can savor for months.

I hope you enjoy it for the first time or with nostalgia. It’s got great writing, fine acting, and plots to please any fan of mystery, drama, suspense and wry humor.

Part of the cast, today: