Castle (TV Series) A Deadly Affair (2010) User Reviews

A good start to a terrific Third Season

[xboy614 · 7/10 · 30 July 2013]

A deadly affair is a solid and good start to the third season of Castle, when a Michael Connelly type mystery writer gets to solve crimes with a tough, but savvy female Detective, Beckett. This episodes evokes the fun of the First season with the witty one-liners seen in the second season. Friendship between Beckett and Castle is rebuilt in a cool way and it is intertwined with a "not your usual" crime involving a Vending machine operator, a teacher and a Statue-maker. This episode almost signals the the great ones to come and my only criticism to it is that it is not forgetful, or predictable but there are just so many other episodes which either have better plots or are funnier.

Reprise

[Jackbv123 · 8/10 · 1 January 2022]

To me, it has been a while since this series has had the brilliance of the first 5 episodes of the first season. The rival for Castle in Deming did not appeal to me because, while it's good to see Castle be a dufus once in a while, he and Deming were taking it over the top, perhaps an accurate commentary on the shallowness of the male species. Yet, it was still more than a full season before Deming that the show coasted on better than average, but not brilliant, interplay between all the characters. The Alexis and Rick relationship was always great, but the Beckett and Castle one had dipped ever so slightly.

This episode leaves the rivals behind and reverts to the sparkling dialogue with great use of innuendo, double entendre and of course flirting between Castle and Beckett.