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News: The Monday Playlist: Castle Goes Half-(Hitch)Cocked for Case No. 100

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News: The Monday Playlist: Castle Goes Half-(Hitch)Cocked for Case No. 100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Published 9:12 am, Monday, April 1, 2013

In the set-up for Castle's clever lark of a 100th episode on ABC (Monday, 10:01/9:01c), they're forced to go solo as Castle (Nathan Fillion in rare form) stews in boredom in his apartment, nursing a busted leg. [...] he picks up his new birthday binoculars and goes all Jimmy Stewart-in-Rear Window, convinced he's witnessed a murder across the street, eventually drawing his beloved Beckett and intrepid daughter Alexis into the Hitchcockian-homage intrigue. Last week, she begged the very pertinent question: "How does a cult of killers stay hidden this long?" This week, as she gets a load of life inside the lion's den, we're reminded of the answer: Because these are the most inept group of FBI doofuses we've ever met. In a parallel storyline to Claire's misadventures in the madhouse, a dejected Ryan (Kevin Bacon, doing his best) is back in "problem drinker" mode, and to rouse him from his funk, Agent Parker (Annie Parisse, doing her best) enlists his help to investigate an S&M fetish club "Whips and Regret" - Regrets? Young anti-hero Norman succumbs to various bizarre daydreams and delusions while morphing from notorious mama's boy to Hardy Boy, playing Teen Detective with pal Emma (Olivia Cooke) as they explore some of their town's deepest secrets. Another tormented protagonist, another haunted landscape - albeit New Zealand is way more exotic than faux Oregon - as Sundance's gripping miniseries Top of the Lake continues (10/9c) with one of the strongest outings yet for Elisabeth Moss (a far cry and world removed from Mad Men's Peggy Olson) as troubled detective Robin Griffin. Documentarian David Sutherland makes films that are as much sociology as biography, and so it is with PBS' two-part Kind Hearted Woman (concludes Tuesday; check tvguide.com listings), a presentation of Frontline and Independent Lens, which explores at length (five hours) and sensitive depth the inspiring story of Robin Charboneau, an Oglala Sioux single mother working to raise a family and recover from her own past of sexual abuse, which she learns to her dismay has continued into the next generation. ... Reported by SeattlePI.com 4 days ago.

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