Monk - Season Six
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Movie Reviews of Monk - Season Six
Movie Review: Everyone's Favorite Obsessive-Compulsive Detective Returns to the Scene of the Crime for an Awesome 6th Season!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far one of the best seasons of this incredibly awesome series to date! Adrian Monk (Tony Shaloub) continues to use his Sherlock Holmes-like abilities to solve interesting and often complex murder cases. His sharp eyes for detail and his deductive reasoning still continue to intrique his colleagues, his beautiful and long-suffering assistant, Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard), the straight-laced Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), and the always eager-to-please Lieutenant Randy Disher (Jason-Gray Stanford).
As the season opens, we see the defective detective being pursued once again by his overly-obsessed fan, Marci Maven (special guest star Sarah Silverman). This time, she needs Adrian's help in clearing her dog of a murder charge. Next, special guest star Snoop Dogg potrays a successful rap artist who needs Monk's help in clearing his name after he is accussed of killing a rival. As the season progresses, we continue to get an array of interesting mysteries, which include a murder at a nude beach, a shot Santa Claus, a possibly murderous girlfriend, and a cult that has more going than they let on. The season ends with the best season finale for this show and two of the best episodes ever! In this 2 parter, Monk is accussed of a murder and must quickly find the evidence that will prove his innonce. Ever since I got into this series, I had hoped for an episode like this. It's a beautiful mix of comedy, drama, and suspense, as the entire series has been.
By now, all of you Monk fans probably know that next season, the 8th overall, will be the last one. I will surely miss "Monk" when it is over. It is one of the best shows to come on television in a while. For all Monk fans out there, owning Season 6 is a must (along with all the other seasons). For those who have not yet discovered the show, this is a good place to start. Yes, I know its late in the series, but you can always catch up. Plus, each episode is pretty much independent, with a couple of exceptions. Here is a listing of all 16 episodes in this season, with a brief synopsis:
1. Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan: Monk and Natalie agree to help his overly-obsessed fan, Marci Maven (Sarah Silverman) clear her deceased dog of a murder charge.
2. Mr. Monk and the Rapper: Monk unwittingly agrees to help a sucessful rap artist (Snoop Dogg) clear his name in the murder of a rival rapper.
3. Mr. Monk and the Naked Man: Monk shudders at the thought of investigating a murder at a nude beach. Even though the man couldn't have done it, Monk's suspect is one of the regular nudists at the beach, and Natalie and Stottlemeyer try to help him see otherwise and help him get over his prejudice against nudists. Alfred Molina guest stars.
4. Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend: Monk's friendship with Captain Stottlemeyer is put to the ultimate test when he acusses his girlfriend (Sharon Lawrence) of murder.
5. Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees: Monk must prove a sports agent is guilty of murder and help Natalie's teenage daughter, Julie (Emmy Clarke) with her love life.
6. Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure: Monk and Natalie find themselves on quite an interesting outing when they help Dr. Kroeger's (Stanley Kamel) son, Troy, follow a treasure map.
7. Mr. Monk and the Daredevil: When Monk's rival, Harold Krenshaw (Tim Bagely) is revealed to be the famous Frisco Fly, Monk is consumed with envy.
8. Mr. Monk and the Wrong Man: When a man he put away years ago is cleared by a new DNA test, Monk is consumed with guilt and tries to help him rebuild his life, until he realizes that maybe he was never wrong in the first place.
9. Mr. Monk Stays Up All Night: When he can't seem to sleep, Monk takes a walk around San Francisco one night and witnesses a murder. Stottlemeyer and Disher believe his insonmia has gotten the better of him, but Monk is determined to prove otherwise.
10. Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa: Monk becomes a social outcast after being acussed of shooting a seemingly harmless Santa Claus passing down stuffed teddy bears to kids from a roof. Can Monk prove what really happened on that roof in time for Christmas?
11. Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank: After Monk's safety deposit box is robbed,
he goes undercover as a security guard there to solve the case.
12. Mr. Monk and the Three Julies: Natalie is horrified when a rash of murders plague San Francisco that all involve women with the same name as her teenage daughter.
13. Mr. Monk Joins a Cult: Monk infiltrates a cult to solve a homicide, but ends up falling under their spell. Howie Mandell guest stars.
14. Mr. Monk Paints His Masterpiece: Monk learns that the world of art can be deadly after taking up painting as a hobby.
15. Mr. Monk Is on the Run, Part I: The first of this exciting 2 part season finale. Monk finally confronts the elusive six-fingered man he has been searching for, but he is soon murdered. A small town sheriff (Scott Glenn) arrives on the scene, acuesses Monk of being the triggerman and arrests him for murder. After escaping custody, Monk becomes a fugitive on the lamb.
16. Mr. Monk Is on the Run, Part II: While everyon mourns Monk's apparent "death", Monk works quickly with Stottlemeyer, Natalie, and Disher to uncover the truth that will clear his name. Natalie finally meets Monk's old archnemisis, Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck (Ray Porter).
Movie Review: It's a Jungle Out There, Root-Tooty-Toot!
Summary: 5 Stars
That catchy opening ditty, which yanks me into the quirky, goofy, world of Mr. Monk--the defective detective--guarantees that I am in for an hour that is brimful of laughter. I enjoyed the sixteen episodes of season six immensely, perhaps because I came to it new and have nothing to compare it with (My cable company did not offer "Monk" at an affordable level.).
The show works because Tony Shaloub plays Monk not for laughs but with such sincerity that I find myself, in turn, laughing, wincing, and sometimes crying for him. I also love the supporting characters: his personal assistant Natalie, who teeters between concern and exasperation; the good egg, Captain Stottlemeyer and his dim-bulb assistant, Lieutenant Disher. And Monk's sessions with his psychiatrist, in which the neurotic patient often ends up reversing rolls with the therapist, are delightful.
My only quibble is with the settings. The show is supposed to be in San Francisco, but most of it is recognizably Los Angeles (as the commentary confirms). This flawlet, however, does not detract from the enjoyment of a series that, while it might not be on the dramatic level of the great BBC Mysteries, is just plain fun.
And in a world that increasingly resembles a "jungle out there," who can't use a little rooty-toot-toot fun?
Movie Review: Classic Monk
Summary: 5 Stars
Season Six went back to the formula that made the show one of the highest rated cable shows ever. Adrian's character went through a few new wrinkles (as it did every season) but the show was classic Monk. It works because the show offers a crime, puts Monk in uncomfortable situation which, whether the viewer has OCD or not, can relate to. We have all been frustrated by situations where we feel uncomfortable but there is really nothing we can do about it.
Several of the episodes have quickly become fan favorites. Mr. Monk and the Rapper (not one of my favorites) is off the charts on the USA/Monk website as one of their favorites of all time. Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend gave the relationship between Monk and Captain Stottlemeyer a great deal of tension before it was resolved. Fascinating plot lines were developed in Naked Man, Birds and the Bees, Daredevil, Goes to the Bank, Three Julies, and Joins a Cult.
In the end, Season Six was one of the best because there were no weak episodes and it was capped off with a real barnburner in the two-part finale, Mr. Monk is on the Run. I'm hungry for Season Seven.
Movie Review: Season 6 in good form
Summary: 5 Stars
This has been one of the funnier seasons I think. The stories are quite good, a notch up from Season 5 I felt. Overall the writing here feels as solid as Monk's ever been. Some of the episodes are a little far-fetched (Monk on the Lam?), but what they may lack in beleivability, they surely make up for in creativity and comic value which serve as a nice added bonus to Monk's tweaked out heroics. Some funny episodes, my favorites probably being "Mr Monk and His Biggest Fan" which starts the season off with a bang, "Mr Monk and the Naked Man" where Monk confronts his taboos about nudity at a nude beach (this episode was almost deep), "Mr Monk Joins a Cult" (kind of silly but I liked the bizarreness of the whole scenario), and "Mr Monk Paints His Masterpiece" in which Monk's new hobby starts earning him good money! I can't think of any episodes that I didn't much like. This was a good season.Movie Review: Good detective mystery, but with an unusual comedy side.
Summary: 5 Stars
Monk is a dective mystery, with an unusual twist of comedy. Most of us have some obsessive quirks, often times without even knowing it. Monk's are extreme to put it mildly. His days consist of trying to make everything balanced and perfect and all the while he has a keen sense of remembering everything and, in short order, noticing the clues in each murder case that most people miss. His detective skills are uncanny. Each episode is a story all its own. It doesn't leave you hanging from one episode to the next. Tony Shalhoub is the perfect actor for this part. Funny, smart and with a very sweet human side too, especially when he struggles with the loss of his wife. This is a "whodoneit" that won't give you nightmares. Enjoy!!