TV-Reviewed

While I've always liked Natalie, I've never been a satisfied with her level of involvement in the show. An extra could do what she does half the time and that's not a shot at Traylor Howard, but at the writers for their inability to make Natalie a more significant part of the show. With this frustration in mind, I was loving "Mr. Monk and the Critic" with the way Natalie was utilized. She finally became an integral part of the show, ... Read More

"Mr. Monk Takes the Stand" had a very unusual format compared to the typical episode. It actually started with Adrian Monk starting with his trademark "Here's what happened..." only to get shut down when the accused murderer's lawyer showed up and took him away before he told them anything. He was lucky because he seemed about ready to give up. Adrian, on the other hand, met his match when it came to the lawyer, who was played by comedian Jay Mohr. ... Read More

The opening to Friday's episode was surprising to say the least. It showed Monk stepping out into the street and getting hit by a city bus. Thankfully, it wasn't actually Monk, but rather a hit man named Frank DePalma who happens to be Adrian Monk's doppelganger. While I don't buy the doppelganger theory at all, I'm able to let that go for the sake of television. Adrian was asked by the police to assume the the identity of Frank DePalma ... Read More

There's no doubt about it: this episode was "way out there" and I absolutely loved it. I've never been one to mince words and sometimes it's hard to admit that Monk has truly fallen from its graces, but it's episodes like "Mr. Monk and the UFO" that give me hope that they will go out on a strong note. Adrian and Natalie found themselves driving around in a small desert town when Natalie's car broke down and as Adrian is trying to ... Read More

After seven full seasons, Adrian Monk is a man on a mission. He has solved over a hundred crimes, put countless criminals behind bars, but he's yet to solve the biggest crime of them all: who killed Trudy? In this week's episode, Adrian meets a Nigerian man named Samuel who also has tragically lost his wife. Feeling like he's not alone, Adrian offers to help Samuel solve his wife's death. Adrian and Samuel would turn out to be very different ... Read More

Advance Review: Leave it to Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) to be the last person on Earth to find out that childhood heroes never turn out to be as impressive as you once imagined them. In the eighth season, which is set to premiere this Friday night, Adrian is taken back some thirty five years to when he was a fan of a Brady Bunch-like series called The Cooper Clan, and one of his favorite former child actors is nearly killed. You can ... Read More

Monk's season finale was not the disappointment I was expecting. The show has one more season to wrap up its story and while I was hoping for a little clue to Trudy's murder to be dropped into our laps as a teaser, a touching end worked out well too. Since finding out that the San Francisco city council had voted to knock down the parking garage where Trudy Monk was killed, Adrian has been on a quest to stop it. He ... Read More

This past Friday brought forth the death of Kevin Dorfman (Jarrad Paul), a character that hasn't appeared very often in quite a while. He's only appeared on the show four or five times in over one hundred episodes. I've never liked the character because of how he would go on and on about virtually everything. This was also something Adrian Monk and Natalie Teeger disliked about him. This is why I was surprised by their reaction to his ... Read More

This week's Monk had Adrian in an unusual place. He had to face one of his childhood bullies, Roderick Brody (Noah Emmerich). Brody was responsible for giving Adrian swirlies on a regular basis in the seventh grade. Their meeting was a little out of the ordinary because the bully asked Adrian for help and Adrian wanted revenge. The idea of him proving the bully's wife is having an affair is something he was quite pleased about. It didn't take ... Read More

When this episode aired, it was Super Bowl time so it made a lot of sense to air this and keep with the football theme of the week. PSYCH and Burn Notice also did the same thing. The problem I'm having with Monk is that things rarely surprise me anymore when it comes to the drama aspect of the show and the comedy isn't all that well done. It isn't very funny. In the case of "Mr. Monk Makes the ... Read More