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Post by queenzod on May 21, 2024 9:30:08 GMT
I loved Monk when it first came out, especially since Tony is so brilliant. I also loved him in Galaxy Quest. But I tired of the show for the same reasons you did, Magda. It got stale after a while and so I skipped the last seasons.
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Post by mllemass on May 21, 2024 11:36:48 GMT
mllemass I discovered Monk in my summer, 5 or 6 months ago. At first I liked it very much but it tired me a bit that season after season it returns to point 0. They don't let the character develop. Anyway I think it"s very watchable. I loved the episode with Stanley Tucci. He's great. It's specially funny because Tucci auditioned to play Monk. It’s kind of funny - I had the opposite reaction! I wasn’t sure at first if I would continue watching it because it/he was so annoying. In fact, the first couple of seasons kept my interest only because I recognized so many Canadian actors in it. It turns out that the first two seasons were filmed in Canada before they moved filming to Los Angeles in S3. If I had watched Monk on tv when it aired in 2002, I doubt that I would have stuck with it for 8 seasons. But it was different now on Netflix, where I watched several episodes a day. Occasionally, they would hit a gem of a story, and that kept me going back for more. As I said before, by S8, every episode was a gem! In one of the old interviews I came across a few days ago, Tony Shalhoub said that they deliberately made Adrian Monk so irritating that the viewers would grab their remotes and get ready to change channels. But they’d hang on a bit more and put the remotes back down again. So they did that on purpose! There were many hilarious lines from the show, but for some reason the one that still goes through my head was from the voodoo dolls episode. Disher announces that he doesn’t believe in voodoo: “I’m a Pisces. We’re not superstitious.” Ha!
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Post by mllemass on May 29, 2024 17:41:22 GMT
In case you were wondering whether I managed to find the Monk movie (ha!), well I did! It occurred to me to check Daily Motion, and there it was! Long ago, when I first discovered Benedict, I found so much of his stuff on Daily Motion ! I was able to catch up on everything I had missed over the years.
But I had forgotten how frustrating it was to watch anything there! The Monk video stopped every few minutes for annoying ads, so it took forever to watch the movie. I’m glad I was finally able to watch it, though, even if it was kind of blah. It seemed to me like they had a great ending in mind (that they probably should have thought of in 2009 when the series ended), and now they wanted to use it. It really was a sweet ending and worth waiting for, but the plot leading up to it was nothing special. And I was expecting something special!
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