Perhaps the biggest crime
on Castle is identity theft.
While watching Edmonton’s
Nathan Fillion in the debut episode
of Castle, which airs tomorrow
night on A and ABC, we couldn’t
help but feel as if we’d seen this
somewhere before.
Fillion plays Richard
Castle, a horny, wise-
cracking writer. He
has a daughter, but
the mother of his
daughter has become
a thorn in his side.
Suddenly, it struck us:
David Duchovny
as Hank Moody in
Californication!
Through a series of
murders that appear
to be based on his books, Richard
Castle winds up getting involved
in some police work with an
attractive New York detective
named Kate Beckett. She is
played by yet another Canadian,
Toronto-area actor Stana Katic.
Granted, Hank Moody hasn’t
gone down the police path. But
as the half-hostile, half-sexually
tense relationship between
Castle and Beckett develops,
it brings to mind yet another
current series: Bones, with Emily
Deschanel and David Boreanaz.
And you know, there’s actually
some Mulder and Scully from
The X Files tossed into the Castle-
Beckett tete-a-tete, too.
So here’s our proposal for a
more appropriate title for Castle:
The Bonesifornication Files.
No matter want you
want to call it, Fillion
— who last season was
seen playing Dr. Adam
Mayfair, the husband of
Katherine Mayfair (Dana
Delany), on Desperate
Housewives — is just
happy to be the main
character on Castle.
“I spent some
time on Desperate
Housewives, lovely,
lovely group, I made a
lot of friends, they were very kind
to me,” said Fillion, diplomatically.
“But I spent a lot of time sitting
around in a living room saying
‘Uh-huh. Yes. That’s right. Well,
I’ll back you up on that.’
“That’s a show called Desperate
Housewives and it’s about the
housewives. Nobody’s complaining
over there. But I decided in my
next job, I wanted to have fun
every day. I’m an actor. I have that
wonderful job where every day
can be an adventure for me. That’s
what Castle is. Every day of his life
is a field trip. He’s a child inside.”
Katic has her own views
on the psychological dance
between Castle and Beckett,
which was described as
“fiction meets friction” in
ABC’s promotional material.
“The usual stereotype for a
female police officer actually is a
strong, hard, by-the-book kind of
character,” Katic said. “But you’ll
see (Beckett and Castle) develop
a different kind of relationship.
“Originally, Det. Beckett is
annoyed that she’s, in a way,
babysitting this superstar
who she obviously
admires because she
reads his books. But also
he’s an anomaly in her
crime-solving process.
“As the series goes on, the
two of them gain real respect
for each other’s qualities and
for the ways they can help each
other solve a case. They take
turns benefiting from each other
and bringing the lightness and
the comedy, and bringing the
intelligence and the heart.
“In the end, that’s kind of the
thrust of the whole piece, isn’t it?”
Sounds like The
Bonesifornication Files to us.
