Castle

Hitting off the start of season 4, which premiered yesterday, Castle's season 3 just came out on DVD today! YES! I haven't seen anything beyond season 2 (I hate to watch out of order, so I rarely watch any show until it comes out on DVD and I KNOW I'm going to watch it in its intended order), and my parents and I are big, big Castle fans! And to think that we became fans by accident, really. I saw Castle in Target one day and was like, "Hey, that looks good. I should watch it."
     Castle has Nathan Fillion as its star. Nathan got his big break as Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly (If you don't love this show, I might have to sick Reavers on you) but Nathan in the role of Richard Castle was how he was introduced into my family.
     Castle is, in a way, a new, updated version of Murder, She Wrote. Richard Castle is a best selling mystery novelist in New York City, and during one of his signing parties, he gets called upon by beautiful, no-nonsense cop Kate Beckett (played by Stana Katic, Beckett is Nathan's co-star), who wants to ask him some questions about a couple of murders. The murderer, in fact, took Castle's murders from his books and made them a reality.
     So the show is finally on its 4th season and the 3rd itself is pretty different from the last 2 seasons so far, in my opinion. The 2nd season left you on this rocky cliffhanger, and in the 3rd the characters have some issues against each other that need to be resolved. I've noticed that usually TV shows tend to be lighthearted (even in murder) in the 1st season. In its 2nd season, the show is at its best, at its height of plot and drama. Then by the 3rd season the show tends to take a toll on being more serious in characterization and sometimes even the colors of the 3rd season seem more serious. Even something simple for color changing could be through a character's costume. Castle season 3 is no exception.
     So this concludes my review on Castle. It's one of the best shows I've ever watched, and I'm hoping that the people working on this project can give me an equally exciting new season that I can watch over and over again.