Castle (TV Series) Nanny McDead (2009) User Reviews

The Nanny

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 9 April 2022]

When the young Sara Manning is found dead in a dryer machine in the basement of an apartment building, Kate Becket and her team are assigned to investigate the case. Castle and Becket's team learns that the woman is the nanny of Claudia and Howard Petersen. Their further investigation indicates that Howard is having an affair with a co-worker and Claudia is secretly consulting a divorce lawyer. They also interview Sara's boyfriend Brent Johnson and her best friend, Chloe Richardson, who is also a nanny in the building. Kate and Castle suspect that Sara might be having an affair in the building, but with whom?

"Nanny McDead" is the second and great episode of "Castle", in the first assignment of Castle. The episode is excellent and Castle sees the real investigation of the efficient Detective Kate Becket. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Nanny McDead"

So good

[evans-15475 · 9/10 · 6 April 2022]

Watched this after watching a lot of the final 2 seasons it's like a completely different show,actually is a comedy drama rather rather than a bizarre Jason bourne copy,excellent chemistry and banter between the leads just wondering where it all went wrong probably when they got together.

Episodic character development but convincing acting, unauthentic dialogs, déjà vu but twisted enough story

[igoatabase · 3/10 · 4 February 2010]

The first impression is not always the most objective one but in this case I'm a bit disappointed by Beckett and Castle. In the pilot I found the mix between writing and investigation quite original but watching this episode was just entertaining and nothing more. The acting was good but the protagonists chemistry seemed forced and their dialogs weren't as spicy and funny as expected. In fact I worry that the upcoming episodes are just fillers. So I really hope the writers don't plan to use the same recipe but with a different story every time. In Nanny McDead the events weren't predictable but not surprising. Even Castle's story telling his new partners wasn't intriguing. I just didn't believe him because what he said wasn't fascinating nor thought out of the box. Despite all these cons from time to time I enjoyed watching them investigate because of some good elements like the outfit design and charming performers. But in the end I'll quickly forget that old Nanny story and really disliked the episodic format. I'm surprised the writers didn't focus on further developing the arc covered in the pilot, about a serial killer using Castle's novels as guidelines.