Castle Thoughts: "Driven"
I don't know what was up with everyone's acting in Castle's premiere. I don't know if it was intentional. I don't know if we're supposed to feel this way. But I also don't think Nathan is the type of man to deliberately sabotage a show. I know he was frustrated with the finale - you can see it in the way he phrased things in interviews, and I saw it first-hand at the convention earlier this spring. But deliberately deliver a half-assed performance? I don't think so.
Also, you've got a well-renowned director like Bowman who I don't believe would let any of the two leads in a show give any less than his vision for how things should be played out. In scripts, there are often written directions for how your character should be feeling and how it should be portrayed. If Nathan went off-script, you can be damn sure they'd have done more takes.
Again... I don't know what was going on. Even the supporting cast felt off. The fuck was up with Esposito? I don't care if you want characters to display different points of view, but I wanted to punch him. Alexis... don't get me started on Molly's "orgasm" face. I felt a lot of it was very out of character and the overall episode pacing was just awful. Same with this amnesia plot. I don't know where they're going with this, but I'm not a fan.
That said, I thought Stana delivered a brilliant performance, but unfortunately it wasn't enough to get me invested in the storyline.
I'm sorry to focus so much on the negative. I usually try to look for the bright side in everything, but I really can't find it here.
