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How can Castle and Beckett be expected to sizzle when they're both in pain? Castle season 8 continues to disappoint...
This review contains spoilers.
8.4 What Lies Beneath...
There are several things that make for a great Castle episode.
The first is a great case. Because this is Castle, however, what we mean by “great” is a little different than you might expect on some other shows. Castle will never win any (important) awards for its storytelling. As I have repeatedly suggested, the writers seem to do their brainstorming while reading the TV Tropes page: even Castle’s best stories are usually nothing more than one overused story idea after another strung together to make a somewhat cohesive whole. And the killer is almost always the same—it’s the first person we meet (other than the victim) who has a connection to the murder.
What tends to salvage...
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How can Castle and Beckett be expected to sizzle when they're both in pain? Castle season 8 continues to disappoint...
This review contains spoilers.
8.4 What Lies Beneath...
There are several things that make for a great Castle episode.
The first is a great case. Because this is Castle, however, what we mean by “great” is a little different than you might expect on some other shows. Castle will never win any (important) awards for its storytelling. As I have repeatedly suggested, the writers seem to do their brainstorming while reading the TV Tropes page: even Castle’s best stories are usually nothing more than one overused story idea after another strung together to make a somewhat cohesive whole. And the killer is almost always the same—it’s the first person we meet (other than the victim) who has a connection to the murder.
What tends to salvage...
- 10/14/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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