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Oh clever lead in for Castle, do a DWTS murder.

<3 this show

The mother story is interesting, but I agree, GET ON WITH IT. Although I see it as realistic that there are all of these delays, so we "get" that this has been Beckett's life for a long time. A clue and a dead end, then it crops back up, more dead ends. It's time to wrap it though.

I have to say, ever since I read that article on bad actors "working" on TV because we fill in the blanks FOR them (Oh, she's repressed, Oh, she plays her cards/heart/secrets/whatever so close to the vest, Oh, that's her pain, held in again, she is so strong.) 

Objectively though, Nathan Fillion is acting rings around her. It was most obvious to me in the last scenes, I was able to just observe and she gave NOTHING. That's her same face, same physicality with her body, over and over and over again in spite of the action. It doesn't matter if it's a love scene, a briefing, or someone just died. She has almost no range. I imagined other actresses in the role and realized how damn good those scenes COULD have been with someone more nuanced. I'm not talking about scenery chewing either, just a well timed eyelash flicker can do so much, or the shoulders moving a bit. She brings NOTHING.

That said, she still works for me in the role, because, as the article implied, I've filled in her story for her in various ways, without even realizing I was doing it. She's pretty much a blank canvas, or a void, allowing whomever is watching to project SOMETHING into that void. So, on TV, which has multiple episodes and hours to fill, the audience can enjoy her in a role, since we project the emotions and senses into her void.

In a more capable actor's hands though? I think Beckett would be amazing.