Short Attention Span Review: "Castle" 3/9

Take Murder, She Wrote. Replace Cabot Cove with Manhattan and turn Angela Lansbury into Nathan Fillion. There you go: Castle!

It's not a bad show. Because it's Fillion, former star of Firefly, I really want to like it. However, if the pilot is anything to judge it by, I don't like the long-term prospects of the series.

The heavy-handed exposition was too much. Example: His publisher (and ex-wife to boot) asks him why he killed off his main character AT THE BOOK LAUNCH PARTY. It seems like the obvious question a publisher would ask when the manuscript arrives. And conveniently having his mom and too-wise-for-her-age daughter at the party where he's signing breasts - really not making much sense.

But the dialogue was pretty good and Fillion is likable. Not sure that's enough to make the show watchable, though.