A nice touch that I liked to this episode was that it demonstrated some of the problems of a successful novelist – what is going to be his next book series after he killed off his lead character? Something that James Patterson, real-life crime thriller author, highlights in a poker game between Castle and a couple of other authors who I didn’t know – he would never kill of his lead character, Alex Cross. This brought a certain real-world feeling to the episode as well as its down-to-earth and realistic action. The pilot episode is written by Rob Bowman and is a fun mystery even if you know that Castle and Beckett will save the day, there are some very interesting elements added to Flowers For Your Grave that prevent it from seeming like your average crime thriller. He’s a strong lead actor with some great comic timing and I’m going to be looking forward to seeing the two lead characters, Castle and Beckett, collaborate together on many future cases. The episode itself whilst sounds like your average crime show, is greatly enhanced by the comedic aspect brought to it by Nathan Fillion, who plays a very different character to Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly.

Nathan Fillion is very strong as a lead actor and the show packs some great charisma between the two lead cast.”įlowers For Your Grave is a great starting episode to Castle. It introduces us to bestselling author Richard “Rick” Castle, who is called in to help Detective Kate Beckett with a case due to the fact that the serial killer is copying killings from Castle’s novels. I review the first and second episodes of Castle, entitled Flowers For Your Grave and Nanny McDead.

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