TMC
03-10-2018, 02:42 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/arts/television/deception-instinct-castle-alan-cumming.html
The new Sunday night shows both appear to owe a debt to Castle. "If you’re a fan of the television subgenre that pairs a gifted, impulsive, often childlike male civilian with a tough, straight-arrow, lonely female cop, then you were probably a fan of Castle, one of the most successful shows of the type," says Mike Hale. (Other recent or current examples: The Mentalist, Perception, Forever, A.P.B., Lucifer.) You’re also in luck. Maybe. Sunday night brings not one but two new examples of the genre."
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Deception leading man Jack Cutmore-Scott is, alas, no Nathan Fillion (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/deception-review-1093416)
Deception has foreseeable whodunits and weak storylines (http://variety.com/2018/tv/reviews/deception-review-abc-magic-drama-1202718949/)
The new Sunday night shows both appear to owe a debt to Castle. "If you’re a fan of the television subgenre that pairs a gifted, impulsive, often childlike male civilian with a tough, straight-arrow, lonely female cop, then you were probably a fan of Castle, one of the most successful shows of the type," says Mike Hale. (Other recent or current examples: The Mentalist, Perception, Forever, A.P.B., Lucifer.) You’re also in luck. Maybe. Sunday night brings not one but two new examples of the genre."
ALSO:
Deception leading man Jack Cutmore-Scott is, alas, no Nathan Fillion (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/deception-review-1093416)
Deception has foreseeable whodunits and weak storylines (http://variety.com/2018/tv/reviews/deception-review-abc-magic-drama-1202718949/)