monk is a fucking SAD show, i watched this with my dad as a kid and only now do i realize the depths of how fucked it is because im not smelling clothes just like him, just so i feel like the person isn't gone
FUCK

>>212308936 (OP)
monk is cringe. there are better detective shows out there. his autism gimmick gets tired after one season.

>>212309004
so does yours but here we are

He got better at the end of the series

>>212308936 (OP)
Grief is fucked, the pre-grief era of your life is truly bliss. Now imagine parents who lose young children and shit. They keep their rooms exactly the same, come in there smelling clothes every day, sit alone and talk to themselves pretending the child is still there.

>>212309169
No. I won't imagine it.

>monkslop
fuck off ranjeesh

>>212308936 (OP)
>im not smelling clothes just like him
I do this but they're all panties I've stolen.

>>212309004
monk is supposed to be cringe, it's supposed to be uncomfortable to watch him, you're supposed to get tired just like everyone around him gets tired of it.
i liked psych more for entertainment but monk was heartfelt.

>>212309058
that's actually good to hear, despite it being a fictional character.

>>212309169
it is truly fucked, my grandpa passed away last year and i literally lied to him to make sure he wasn't worrying about me when he left. type of shit i'm never getting rid of.

>>212309288
monk is indian? what?

>>212309309
you shouldn't steal underwear i think

>>212308936 (OP)
Him being useless at everything except being a detective gets old fast, they even cocktease the audience with an episode where he gets better but that happens to be around the same time he gets gaslit by a woman pretending to be his wife and his brain reverts back to retard mode. Stottlemeyer and Randy are better characters anyway

>>212309497
>Stottlemeyer and Randy are better characters anyway
It was such a perfect casting too. The chilnet baby face makes it, and the suits so oversized it looks like a 8 year old wearing his dad's clothes.

>>212309004
filtered...

>>212309601
I also just like Ted Levine a lot, he's an underrated actor and Stottlemeyer's a good fit for him

>>212308936 (OP)
Pretty much every crime he solved was solved in an obvious way. It's still a comfy show though

>>212309497
ok that's fair but that's the whole gimmick of the show, pick any show ever and you can find an equivalent annoying gimmick i bet, or at least i can.

>>212309770
isn't that how all these types of shows go though? they can't make it too complex because then they can't guarantee that the audience gets it

i may be going to bat for monk too hard here, i'm not actually a fan i just watched it as a kid! please don't shit on my childhood!
lol

>>212308936 (OP)
>>212309058
I refuse to watch the movie because it undid all the progress from the series.
They sprinkle it through out the show but Monk losing his wife truly broke him. He overcame his OCD and other mental issues because he wanted to be a good husband. With her gone he lost motivation to function normally.
And theme of grieve and never getting to that stage of acceptance is real for a lot of people and nightmarish.

>alice cooper is a hippie but he's the bad kind of hippie
probably my favorite bit from the show

>>212310062
The ending shows him being basically cured though, so instead of having him slowly improve they're forced to have him be useless for the entire series

>>212310307
>Meat Loaf as a voodoo priest

>>212309371
Imagine a person is part of you and you can't imagine a future without them. Then they gone, forever.

He is such a annoying fucking shit. Peak Midwit show

>>212310274
this is exactly what my father always said about the show, as far as the meaning. i think it's why i still remember it, shit means something, it's not just for laughs.

>>212310332
wtf i thought he couldn't be cured? they probably forced an ending because they were getting cancelled

>>212310693
greek tragedy moment

>>212310751
what's a really good show?

Natalie is the superior assistant
Sharona was a cunt and her tough approach to Monk never worked.
Natalie was understanding and took more clever approaches to get him to step out of his comfortzone.
Also Benji was a little shit. Julie was better.

>>212311037
there's a lot here but for me, i can't remember any of the side characters in monk, i'm FUCKED in the head!

>>212310987
>wtf i thought he couldn't be cured? they probably forced an ending because they were getting cancelled
No they wrapped up the show very well in the last two seasons.
I wouldn't say he was "cure" but he was able to be function normally like he did when he was with Trudy.
His personality was a lot more outgoing as well.
Again this is why I didn't watch the movie once I learn they were going to undo everything just to make him a germaphobe again to capitalize on a Covid plot.

>>212309668
Getting Buffalo Bill to be the police chief is brilliant casting

>>212311143
>movie
What movie?

>>212311314
I watched the trailer when it was first announced and went nope
They're not ruining another thing I love with a shitty follow up years too late

>>212311367
I'm glad Hollywood is dying and burning.

>>212308936 (OP)
I actually just got done watching the entire season over the past month and a half, and I can't believe how much I enjoyed it. It wasn't the show I was expecting, often being more creative than I'd ever assume. Monk not always being pitiable but sometimes a complete asshole made him more interesting.

>Stottlemeyer and Randy are better characters anyway
Stottlemeyer was easily my favorite character. I was surprised by his and Monk's relationship. I thought he would just be "the cop who has to put up with Monk" and was pleasantly surprised by their friendship.

>>212311367
I didn't think it was bad. I don't think they needed to make it at all, though. Leaving it up to you to imagine the life he had with Molly was definitely better. They do up the stakes with his mental regression so it's not just "Monk thinks the world is icky again!" at least.

>>212311037
She's so fucking cute. As soon as she joined the show I spent every episode just staring at her. She's also a great character.

season 1 theme > it's a jungle out there

>>212312115
YOU FUCKING TAKE THAT BACK MOTHERFUCKER

>>212312147
Randy Newman is an annoying ass singer.
That song sounds like ass.

>>212312147
hey, who's in charge here?

>>212311879
yes i agree, the show does a good job of illustrating mental illness and humanizing the individual. the other show i'd always watch with my father was psych, if you haven't watched that you should! it's basically monk but much less depressing

>>212312210
it's not that bad come on now

>>212312327
IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

>>212308936 (OP)
>>212309004
Monk is just BBC Poirot. They got inspired and made their own thing.

>>212312564
monk looks cooler though

>>212312564
*it's just Columbo

>>212312651
shhhh don't say it come on man

>>212312629
Monk looks modern. Poirot looks great for that time.

>>212312651
No, Poirot is focused on order and symmetry. Has a secretary (Sharona), a chefinspector as friend ( Jeb = Stottlemeyer), a naive friends (Hastings = Randy).
Thats the groundwork for Monk.

>>212312938
i've legit never heard of this show until now, crazy

>>212313076
Ok. Than you just go by visuals or knowledge from the literature. But the BBC series clearly shows how Poirot is very clean, is arranging glasses or flowers to make it symmetric. I can clearly see that someone watched this and got indpired to create Monk.