The third season continues the growing sexual tension between
mystery writer Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) as they solve murders together.
Kate gets closer to solving the mystery of who murdered her mother
and more things get known about it which will have consequences reaching right into season four. This season has nods
to the X-Files, a steampunk themes episode, an appearance by the actress chosen to play Nikki Heat in the film version
of Castle's novels inspired by Detective Beckett, and a trip to Los Angeles where Kate tracks the killer of an old mentor.
CASTLE continues to balance humor, murder, and character development in a mystery series that continues to be popular
in ways that some fans of Nathan Fillion wished FIREFLY could have been as popular. CASTLE continues to be thoroughly
engaging as a series where they eventually will have to pair Beckett and Castle together even if it means murder for the series
after that.
SPECIAL FETAURES:
Audio commentaries for
A DEADLY AFFAIR with Creator/
Executive Producer/ Writer Andrew W. Marlowe, Director/ Executive Producer Rob Bowman, and Actor Nathan Fillion
3XK with Director Bill Roe,
Executive Producer/ Writer David Amann, Actors Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas
Castle checks out Beckett's
curves in the deleted scene for A DEADLY AFFAIR. Deleted scenes are included
for multiple episodes including 3XK, two scenes for ALMOST FAMOUS, MURDER MOST FOWL, a couple of scenes each for NIKKI HEAT
and KNOCKDOWN, SETUP, ONE LIFE TO LOSE, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A., and KNOCKOUT
The set also includes a blooper reel on disc 5.
MURDER THEY WROTE- a roundtable discussion with Creator/ Executive Producer/
Writer Andrew W. Marlowe, Director/ Executive Producer Rob Bowman, Writer Michael Connelly, and Actor Nathan Fillion about
the writing and the writer's life.
CASTLE GOES HOLLYWOOD- See CASTLE using Los Angeles as L.A. (for the episode
TO LOVE AND DIE IN L.A.) instead of L.A. doubling for New
York.
MURDER BOARDS- Kurt De Phillips goes step by step by what goes into making
the murder boards for each episode with an illustrated slideshow.
Music Video- Get on The Floor
FINAL ANALYSIS: The
third season of CASTLE is as good as the previous two seasons. If you enjoyed this show, you should own all seasons
on DVD. Too bad they didn't have more audio commentaries on the episodes as the show's two stars are absent from those
tracks and only in some of the featurettes on disc 5.
this DVD review is (c)9-23-2011 David Blackwell and cannot be reprinted without permission. send all comments to feedback@enterline-media.com
