It's so much more than the CBS procedurals where the cops go through the predictable motions.

Yet, the show is so much more than just the murder-of-the-week formula that is a staple of so many cop shows. The season going forward will mostly be murder-of-the-week, standalone episodes. The writers had to resolve the cliffhanger from last season. It helps if you've been watching the show for the past two seasons, since the end of Season 3, to get the true power of it, but the series isn't like Fringe where if you haven't been watching the past two seasons or so, you'll be totally lost going into the fifth. The show wrapped up the conspiracy surrounding the murder of Kate Beckett's mother as well as the attempted murder of Beckett herself. At least, the fifth season of Castle is going to test that hypothesis.īefore that test of my hypothesis, the premiere episode had to address the on-going mythology that the show has been dealing with for the past two seasons or more. This show, similarly, has a tone that borders on romantic comedy and would facilitate its main characters becoming intimate. The tone of The X-Files and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit weren't so facilitating, but Bones is. Or, is it? FOX's series Bones hooked up its guy and girl detectives and are still making it work, and it works because the tone of that show can facilitate it, a tone that borders on romantic comedy. Typically, producers of these shows know that once the tension is gone because the guy and girl have consummated their relationship or have sex, then the show is over. Often, there is sexual tension between that guy and girl. There are so many cop shows where two people, a guy and a girl, investigate crimes, mostly murders.

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