We stopped watching Castle right at the beginning of this past series. It became ridiculous and unbelievable so rather than continuing on and producing a sour note to the last 7 seasons, we just stopped. It was going downhill even before season 8 but we hung in there anyway even though we weren't really enjoying it. As quiltingcandy said, this too needed to be over even before this year. Ah well, everything has to come to an end sooner or later. Looks like a number of shows have been cut.