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I highly recommend this show. It's a new original series that runs late on Friday nights on USA. It's about a detective, Adrian Monk, who is a genius like Sherlock Holmes, but is nearly crippled with anxiety disorders that struck him when his wife was murdered, so he isn't allowed to work on the police anymore, only consult.
It's a very human, very funny show. In the premier episode there was a hilarious scene with Monk being chased by someone trying to run him over with his car. As Monk is running away, he has to keep touching and counting every pole he passes, even doubling back once when he misses one.
Another great moment is when he is interviewing a politicians aid, and Monk surreptitiously takes some lines of shredded document out of the trash, and because he's so obsessive compulsively driven to order things, he is able to assemble them back into a readable fragment. This is really the key to the show in my opinion, the way his disorders are both his greatest asset and greatest liability.
Like most detective shows, the endings are not very good, with people confessing for no good reason, even when it's clear that they would have a good chance of surviving a trial based on the evidence at hand, but the show itself is very strong and highly entertaining with great writing and acting.
It's a very human, very funny show. In the premier episode there was a hilarious scene with Monk being chased by someone trying to run him over with his car. As Monk is running away, he has to keep touching and counting every pole he passes, even doubling back once when he misses one.
Another great moment is when he is interviewing a politicians aid, and Monk surreptitiously takes some lines of shredded document out of the trash, and because he's so obsessive compulsively driven to order things, he is able to assemble them back into a readable fragment. This is really the key to the show in my opinion, the way his disorders are both his greatest asset and greatest liability.
Like most detective shows, the endings are not very good, with people confessing for no good reason, even when it's clear that they would have a good chance of surviving a trial based on the evidence at hand, but the show itself is very strong and highly entertaining with great writing and acting.
