{"id":5777,"date":"2024-12-27T06:14:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T06:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2024-12-27T06:14:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T06:14:50","slug":"stana-katics-murder-procedural-return-totally-flips-castle-role-kate-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=5777","title":{"rendered":"Stana Katic’s Murder Procedural Return Totally Flips Her Castle Role As Kate Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Stana Katic<\/strong>, known for playing the female lead in ABC\u2019s\u00a0Castle,<\/em>\u00a0returned to murder procedurals in\u00a0Murder in a Small Town<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0but it totally flipped her Kate Beckett character. Katic played Kate Beckett opposite Nathan Fillion\u2019s Richard Castle on the popular procedural series for eight years, forging a household name for herself as an NYPD detective. Despite being one of the\u00a0best dramedy series\u00a0of its time,\u00a0Castle<\/em>\u00a0ended after eight seasons, with Nathan Fillion going on to play John Nolan in ABC’s\u00a0The Rookie<\/em>\u00a0and Katic joining another crime series.<\/p>\n

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Katic’s stint as Kate Beckett halted when ABC unceremoniously ended the crime drama in 2016. The network canceled the show because of declining ratings. However, ABC had already fired Katic from the show, and the series announced that it would continue without her, killing Katic’s Kate character and making Richard Castle, who married Kate in\u00a0Castle<\/em>\u00a0season 7, a widower. Now,\u00a0seven years after\u00a0Castle<\/em>\u00a0ended, Katic returns to the genre on network TV in Fox\u2019s new procedural thriller. Her character will officially subvert expectations of the actor following her\u00a0Castle<\/em>\u00a0stint.<\/p>\n

Stana Katic Returns To The Police Procedural Genre With Murder In A Small Town<\/h2>\n

In October 2024,\u00a0Katic returned to the genre in Fox\u2019s psychological crime drama\u00a0Murder in a Small Town<\/em><\/strong>, which stars\u00a0Trench 11<\/em>\u2019s Rossif Sutherland and\u00a0Reacher<\/em>‘s Kristin Kreuk. The series follows Sutherland\u2019s Chief of Police, Karl Alberg, who moves to a small coastal town to escape big-city police work, but soon discovers that the small town has plenty of mysteries to solve. In the series’ first three episodes,\u00a0Murder in a Small Town<\/em>\u00a0introduced a murder case along with a small handful of suspects and followed Alberg as he dug deeper into the people involved and their motivations.<\/p>\n

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Stana Katic’s Recent TV Series<\/th>\nCharacter<\/th>\nYear<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Castle<\/em><\/td>\nKate Beckett<\/td>\n2009-2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Absentia<\/em><\/td>\nEmily Byrne<\/td>\n2017-2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Murder in a Small Town<\/em><\/td>\nZoe Strachan<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Murder in a Small Town<\/em>\u00a0is the actor’s second time returning to the police procedural genre since\u00a0Stana Katic exited\u00a0Castle,<\/em>\u00a0but it marks her return to network TV.\u00a0Katic starred in\u00a0<\/strong>Absentia<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0an Amazon series similarly positioned in the thrill and drama genres after\u00a0Castle<\/em>\u00a0ended in 2016. In it, Katic plays an FBI agent who reappears after being declared dead and is the prime suspect in a string of murders.\u00a0Absentia<\/em>\u00a0was a mix of Katic\u2019s\u00a0Castle<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Murder in a Small Town<\/em>\u00a0roles, wherein she is a murder suspect but someone with previous ties to an agency.<\/p>\n

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How Murder In A Small Town’s Zoe Strachan Is Different From Castle’s Kate Beckett<\/h2>\n

Katic\u2019s\u00a0Murder in a Small Town<\/em>\u00a0role is the opposite of hers as Kate in\u00a0Castle.<\/em>\u00a0In Sutherland\u2019s series,\u00a0Alberg suspects Katic’s Zoe Strachan character of murder<\/strong>. Strachan is a wealthy resident of Gibson who mostly keeps to herself but gets wrapped up in Alberg\u2019s investigation after her brother is murdered. If viewers tuned into Katic\u2019s performance expecting to see something similar to her\u00a0Castle<\/em>\u00a0character, they would be utterly surprised. Katic’s\u00a0Murder in a Small Town<\/em>\u00a0character was\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0creepy, putting her on the other side of the investigation as the murderer rather than the investigator.<\/p>\n

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Murder in a Small Town<\/em>\u00a0promised a different kind of police show, and Stana Katic’s eerie murderer character delivered on that promise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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In\u00a0Murder in a Small Town<\/em>\u00a0season 1, episode 3, “A Chill Rain,” Katic’s character grows more ominous as Alberg investigates. He uncovers that Zoe Strachan has left a trail of mysterious deaths behind her, with various odd police reports suggesting her kind, cunning demeanor was deceitful. Not a moment too soon, Alberg uncovers that Zoe Strachan burned her former relative alive and catches her just before she’s able to replicate the crime.\u00a0Murder in a Small Town<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0promises a different kind of police show, and Stana Katic’s eerie murderer character delivers on that promise.<\/p>\n

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Stana Katic, known for playing the female lead in ABC\u2019s\u00a0Castle,\u00a0returned to murder procedurals in\u00a0Murder in a Small Town,\u00a0but it totally flipped her Kate Beckett character. Katic played Kate Beckett opposite Nathan Fillion\u2019s Richard Castle on the popular procedural series for eight years, forging a household name for herself as an NYPD detective. 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