The Closer & Castle

I love watching crime series, enjoyed how analytical and composed the polices detectives and investigators remains in times of danger and how in some episodes, the criminals out smart the investigators and escaping from the arms of justice.

Some criminals are so cocky and mean and so senseless in their violence that I wished they are shot instead of being arrested and further wasting the entire nation's times and resources. 

The Closer is one series that I've enjoyed watching on DVD with hubby. It's old fashioned interrogation and detective works. No mind boggling machines, DNA and computer ( We laugh when Tao swabs a suspect for gun powder residue- very unlike how our CSI teams does it). The interaction between the cast is very believable and human, the jokes are funny and I love how they do it with deadpan humor. There's only 15 episodes in this series and I'm so sad to complete it. I want MORE!

It's into season 4 and I hope hollywoodclicks would continue bring season 5 in.

Another new series to talk about. CASTLE. Chanced it on Starworld (CH18) and I'm hooked!

Here's a review from Amazon:

Amazon.com

One of the best shows to emerge midway through the 2008-2009 TV season, Castle has a cast and a sense of humor that set it apart from the normal police procedural. Nathan Fillion plays Rick Castle, a bestselling author of pulpy crime novels who's called in to assist the New York police when a serial killer begins committing copycat murders based on situations in his books. Castle helps crack the case, then decides to kill off his longtime character and create a new one, named "Nikki Heat," and research her by shadowing Det. Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). Much to her irritation, he pulls strings with the mayor's office to embed himself in the department, and helps her solve a wide range of whodunits, including a woman drowned in a bath tub full of motor oil, another frozen and suspended at a construction site, and a corpse stuck in a clothes dryer. To alleviate the grim proceedings, Fillion is in his element as the wisecracking Castle, while adding another ray of sunshine is Castle's impossibly likeable teenage daughter, Alexis (Molly Quinn), who lives with Castle and his mom (Susan Sullivan), a former Broadway star. Castle's circle of poker buddies includes veteran TV writer-producer Stephen J. Cannell and author James Patterson playing themselves. Like many (or most) he-and-she cop shows, there's an element of "Will they or won't they…?", but the beautiful Katic keeps Castle at bay by radiating cool. Clearly she's a woman who wants to separate herself from her emotionally draining and predominantly male job, so it makes it all the more enjoyable when she momentarily steps out of that mode, such as an impromptu appearance at his book signing. Much to the relief of Fillion fans who feared their man was a show killer after the aborted runs of such shows as Firefly and Drive, Castle was renewed for a second, full season. --David Horiuchi

The writing is good, lots of twist in each episodes and I enjoyed Castle's (Nathan Fillion) quick witted humour and sardonic jokes. And I think Det Kate is so pretty! Actress Stana Katic kinda of reminds me of The OC's Misha Barton when I first saw her. The characters are what make or break a series.

I'm so thankful to know that there's a season 2 because season 1 has only 10 episodes and it ended last Thursday.

There's also a book out - Heatwave by Richard Castle (to tie in with the show)

Here's a video highlighting season 1.

There's another detective series on Tuesday (CH5) at 12am. Titled Women's Murder club. It's not a great show adn it was cancelled only after 13 episodes. Loosely based on James Patterson's books characters, it tries to hard to be a soap series/ police drama. Each episodes are peppered with love stories of each characters and the highlights of the police cases are very few. I'm not to bummed that it was cancelled, but I watched it just for fun.