Reflections of the Small Screen: Castle

The premise of the television drama Castle is simple enough – Richard Castle is a fun-loving, best-selling novelist while Kate Beckett is a non-nonsense homicide detective. When fate throws them together on a murder investigation, Castle looks to Beckett for writing inspiration and maneuvers his way onto her team as an outside consultant. Yet within that simplicity lays an understanding of diverse subcultures that few television shows have ever embraced, including Steampunk and the Real Life Superheroes Movement.