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Castle (2009)

Comedy · Crime · Drama

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

IMDb rating
8.1 (188,062 votes)
Seasons
8
Streaming (US)
Amazon Prime Video · Hulu · Philo · The Roku Channel
Language
EN
Type
TV series
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Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 2026 · 8 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2009)

7.84 avg 10 episodes 8.3 → 8.2 45 min avg

Ep 1: 8.3 · 3,105 votesEp 2: 7.6 · 2,288 votesEp 3: 7.6 · 2,112 votesEp 4: 7.6 · 1,973 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 1,941 votesEp 6: 7.6 · 1,880 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 1,907 votesEp 8: 7.8 · 1,835 votesEp 9: 7.7 · 1,774 votesEp 10: 8.2 · 1,841 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Flowers for Your Grave8.33,105
2Nanny McDead7.62,288
3Hedge Fund Homeboys7.62,112
4Hell Hath No Fury7.61,973
5A Chill Goes Through Her Veins8.01,941
6Always Buy Retail7.61,880
7Home Is Where the Heart Stops8.01,907
8Ghosts7.81,835
9Little Girl Lost7.71,774
10A Death in the Family8.21,841

Season 2 (2009)

8.12 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 8.5 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.0 · 1,817 votesEp 2: 8.2 · 1,761 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 1,709 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 1,767 votesEp 5: 8.2 · 1,747 votesEp 6: 8.4 · 1,972 votesEp 7: 7.6 · 1,738 votesEp 8: 7.8 · 1,610 votesEp 9: 8.0 · 1,625 votesEp 10: 8.0 · 1,616 votesEp 11: 8.4 · 1,809 votesEp 12: 8.3 · 1,813 votesEp 13: 8.7 · 1,928 votesEp 14: 8.2 · 1,636 votesEp 15: 7.5 · 1,559 votesEp 16: 7.9 · 1,647 votesEp 17: 9.0 · 2,192 votesEp 18: 8.9 · 2,051 votesEp 19: 7.9 · 1,585 votesEp 20: 7.7 · 1,561 votesEp 21: 8.1 · 1,582 votesEp 22: 7.9 · 1,578 votesEp 23: 7.7 · 1,506 votesEp 24: 8.5 · 1,751 votes
Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Deep in Death8.01,817
2The Double Down8.21,761
3Inventing the Girl7.71,709
4Fool Me Once...8.31,767
5When the Bough Breaks8.21,747
6Vampire Weekend8.41,972
7Famous Last Words7.61,738
8Kill the Messenger7.81,610
9Love Me Dead8.01,625
10One Man's Treasure8.01,616
11The Fifth Bullet8.41,809
12A Rose for Everafter8.31,813
13Sucker Punch8.71,928
14The Third Man8.21,636
15Suicide Squeeze7.51,559
16The Mistress Always Spanks Twice7.91,647
17Tick, Tick, Tick...9.02,192
18Boom!8.92,051
19Wrapped Up in Death7.91,585
20The Late Shaft7.71,561
21Den of Thieves8.11,582
22Food to Die For7.91,578
23Overkill7.71,506
24A Deadly Game8.51,751

Season 3 (2010)

8.17 avg 24 episodes 8.3 → 9.2 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.3 · 1,740 votesEp 2: 7.7 · 1,548 votesEp 3: 8.0 · 1,515 votesEp 4: 8.2 · 1,589 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 1,514 votesEp 6: 8.7 · 1,805 votesEp 7: 7.5 · 1,477 votesEp 8: 7.9 · 1,462 votesEp 9: 8.3 · 1,721 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 1,678 votesEp 11: 8.7 · 2,025 votesEp 12: 8.1 · 1,571 votesEp 13: 9.0 · 2,134 votesEp 14: 7.8 · 1,447 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 1,493 votesEp 16: 8.6 · 1,750 votesEp 17: 8.8 · 1,872 votesEp 18: 7.7 · 1,497 votesEp 19: 8.0 · 1,446 votesEp 20: 7.8 · 1,434 votesEp 21: 7.6 · 1,501 votesEp 22: 8.5 · 1,711 votesEp 23: 7.5 · 1,441 votesEp 24: 9.2 · 2,532 votes
Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1A Deadly Affair8.31,740
2He's Dead, She's Dead7.71,548
3Under the Gun8.01,515
4Punked8.21,589
5Anatomy of a Murder8.01,514
63XK8.71,805
7Almost Famous7.51,477
8Murder Most Fowl7.91,462
9Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind8.31,721
10Last Call8.31,678
11Nikki Heat8.72,025
12Poof, You're Dead8.11,571
13Knockdown9.02,134
14Lucky Stiff7.81,447
15The Final Nail8.01,493
16Setup8.61,750
17Countdown8.81,872
18One Life to Lose7.71,497
19Law & Murder8.01,446
20Slice of Death7.81,434
21The Dead Pool7.61,501
22To Love and Die in L.A.8.51,711
23Pretty Dead7.51,441
24Knockout9.22,532

Season 4 (2011)

8.25 avg 23 episodes 8.4 → 9.3 45 min avg

Ep 1: 8.4 · 1,976 votesEp 2: 8.3 · 1,648 votesEp 3: 7.6 · 1,509 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 1,619 votesEp 5: 8.2 · 1,577 votesEp 6: 8.2 · 1,584 votesEp 7: 9.0 · 2,096 votesEp 8: 7.6 · 1,474 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 1,766 votesEp 10: 8.6 · 1,831 votesEp 11: 8.0 · 1,515 votesEp 12: 8.0 · 1,490 votesEp 13: 7.8 · 1,562 votesEp 14: 8.8 · 2,397 votesEp 15: 8.6 · 1,853 votesEp 16: 8.5 · 1,776 votesEp 17: 8.0 · 1,580 votesEp 18: 7.4 · 1,425 votesEp 19: 8.4 · 1,645 votesEp 20: 7.7 · 1,615 votesEp 21: 8.3 · 1,719 votesEp 22: 8.5 · 1,703 votesEp 23: 9.3 · 3,168 votes
Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Rise8.41,976
2Heroes and Villains8.31,648
3Head Case7.61,509
4Kick the Ballistics8.11,619
5Eye of the Beholder8.21,577
6Demons8.21,584
7Cops & Robbers9.02,096
8Heartbreak Hotel7.61,474
9Kill Shot8.51,766
10Cuffed8.61,831
11Til Death Do Us Part8.01,515
12Dial M for Mayor8.01,490
13An Embarrassment of Bitches7.81,562
14The Blue Butterfly8.82,397
15Pandora8.61,853
16Linchpin8.51,776
17Once Upon a Crime8.01,580
18A Dance with Death7.41,425
1947 Seconds8.41,645
20The Limey7.71,615
21Headhunters8.31,719
22Undead Again8.51,703
23Always9.33,168

Season 5 (2012)

8.24 avg 24 episodes 9.0 → 8.2 43 min avg

Ep 1: 9.0 · 2,405 votesEp 2: 8.1 · 1,666 votesEp 3: 8.2 · 1,590 votesEp 4: 8.8 · 1,939 votesEp 5: 9.1 · 2,302 votesEp 6: 8.6 · 2,275 votesEp 7: 7.5 · 1,785 votesEp 8: 8.0 · 1,484 votesEp 9: 8.1 · 1,489 votesEp 10: 8.0 · 1,471 votesEp 11: 7.5 · 1,350 votesEp 12: 7.4 · 1,372 votesEp 13: 8.2 · 1,432 votesEp 14: 7.7 · 1,417 votesEp 15: 9.1 · 2,236 votesEp 16: 9.3 · 2,665 votesEp 17: 8.1 · 1,473 votesEp 18: 8.5 · 1,597 votesEp 19: 9.1 · 2,285 votesEp 20: 7.3 · 1,353 votesEp 21: 7.7 · 1,455 votesEp 22: 8.5 · 2,004 votesEp 23: 7.8 · 1,313 votesEp 24: 8.2 · 1,486 votes
Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1After the Storm9.02,405
2Cloudy with a Chance of Murder8.11,666
3Secret's Safe with Me8.21,590
4Murder He Wrote8.81,939
5Probable Cause9.12,302
6The Final Frontier8.62,275
7Swan Song7.51,785
8After Hours8.01,484
9Secret Santa8.11,489
10Significant Others8.01,471
11Under the Influence7.51,350
12Death Gone Crazy7.41,372
13Recoil8.21,432
14Reality Star Struck7.71,417
15Target9.12,236
16Hunt9.32,665
17Scared to Death8.11,473
18The Wild Rover8.51,597
19The Lives of Others9.12,285
20The Fast and the Furriest7.31,353
21The Squab and the Quail7.71,455
22Still8.52,004
23The Human Factor7.81,313
24Watershed8.21,486

Season 6 (2013)

8.13 avg 23 episodes 8.3 → 7.7 44 min avg

Ep 1: 8.3 · 1,850 votesEp 2: 7.9 · 1,523 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 1,424 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 1,490 votesEp 5: 8.8 · 1,999 votesEp 6: 7.8 · 1,366 votesEp 7: 8.3 · 1,532 votesEp 8: 7.5 · 1,305 votesEp 9: 8.9 · 1,805 votesEp 10: 8.1 · 1,423 votesEp 11: 8.6 · 1,736 votesEp 12: 8.4 · 1,425 votesEp 13: 7.9 · 1,300 votesEp 14: 7.7 · 1,273 votesEp 15: 8.1 · 1,348 votesEp 16: 8.1 · 1,283 votesEp 17: 8.6 · 1,552 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 1,266 votesEp 19: 7.7 · 1,155 votesEp 20: 8.2 · 1,495 votesEp 21: 7.3 · 1,149 votesEp 22: 9.0 · 1,837 votesEp 23: 7.7 · 1,552 votes
Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Valkyrie8.31,850
2Dreamworld7.91,523
3Need to Know7.71,424
4Number One Fan8.31,490
5Time Will Tell8.81,999
6Get a Clue7.81,366
7Like Father, Like Daughter8.31,532
8A Murder Is Forever7.51,305
9Disciple8.91,805
10The Good, the Bad & the Baby8.11,423
11Under Fire8.61,736
12Deep Cover8.41,425
13Limelight7.91,300
14Dressed to Kill7.71,273
15Smells Like Teen Spirit8.11,348
16Room 1478.11,283
17In the Belly of the Beast8.61,552
18The Way of the Ninja8.11,266
19The Greater Good7.71,155
20That '70s Show8.21,495
21Law & Boarder7.31,149
22Veritas9.01,837
23For Better or Worse7.71,552

Season 7 (2014)

8.02 avg 23 episodes 7.9 → 8.6 43 min avg

Ep 1: 7.9 · 1,550 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 1,346 votesEp 3: 7.8 · 1,346 votesEp 4: 7.8 · 1,279 votesEp 5: 7.9 · 1,260 votesEp 6: 8.5 · 1,715 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 1,371 votesEp 8: 8.0 · 1,202 votesEp 9: 7.5 · 1,159 votesEp 10: 7.8 · 1,194 votesEp 11: 8.5 · 1,373 votesEp 12: 7.7 · 1,140 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 1,211 votesEp 14: 9.0 · 1,766 votesEp 15: 9.1 · 1,914 votesEp 16: 7.9 · 1,229 votesEp 17: 7.7 · 1,159 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 1,123 votesEp 19: 7.6 · 1,051 votesEp 20: 7.6 · 1,176 votesEp 21: 8.0 · 1,215 votesEp 22: 7.3 · 1,150 votesEp 23: 8.6 · 1,387 votes
Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Driven7.91,550
2Montreal8.01,346
3Clear & Present Danger7.81,346
4Child's Play7.81,279
5Meme Is Murder7.91,260
6The Time of Our Lives8.51,715
7Once Upon a Time in the West8.11,371
8Kill Switch8.01,202
9Last Action Hero7.51,159
10Bad Santa7.81,194
11Castle, P.I.8.51,373
12Private Eye Caramba!7.71,140
13I, Witness8.01,211
14Resurrection9.01,766
15Reckoning9.11,914
16The Wrong Stuff7.91,229
17Hong Kong Hustle7.71,159
18At Close Range8.11,123
19Habeas Corpse7.61,051
20Sleeper7.61,176
21In Plane Sight8.01,215
22Dead from New York7.31,150
23Hollander's Woods8.61,387

Season 8 (2015)

7.69 avg 22 episodes 8.1 → 6.9 43 min avg

Ep 1: 8.1 · 1,571 votesEp 2: 7.1 · 1,446 votesEp 3: 7.3 · 1,171 votesEp 4: 7.2 · 1,079 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 1,275 votesEp 6: 7.9 · 1,166 votesEp 7: 7.8 · 1,073 votesEp 8: 7.5 · 1,065 votesEp 9: 7.4 · 1,077 votesEp 10: 8.0 · 1,059 votesEp 11: 8.0 · 1,058 votesEp 12: 8.5 · 1,154 votesEp 13: 7.5 · 990 votesEp 14: 7.8 · 1,044 votesEp 15: 7.7 · 994 votesEp 16: 8.0 · 1,002 votesEp 17: 7.6 · 956 votesEp 18: 7.5 · 921 votesEp 19: 7.9 · 1,035 votesEp 20: 7.4 · 915 votesEp 21: 7.9 · 959 votesEp 22: 6.9 · 1,689 votes
Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1XY8.11,571
2XX7.11,446
3PhDead7.31,171
4What Lies Beneath7.21,079
5The Nose8.11,275
6Cool Boys7.91,166
7The Last Seduction7.81,073
8Mr. & Mrs. Castle7.51,065
9Tone Death7.41,077
10Witness for the Prosecution8.01,059
11Dead Red8.01,058
12The Blame Game8.51,154
13And Justice for All7.5990
14G.D.S.7.81,044
15Fidelis Ad Mortem7.7994
16Heartbreaker8.01,002
17Death Wish7.6956
18Backstabber7.5921
19Dead Again7.91,035
20Much Ado About Murder7.4915
21Hell to Pay7.9959
22Crossfire6.91,689

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