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I'll miss you, Mr. Monk!
by Jane Boursaw, posted Nov 15th 2008 2:03PM
It's been a gift ... and a curse. But the brilliant, obsessive-compulsive detective known as Mr. Monk will be solving his last crime at the end of the eighth season next summer. With ratings still high on the USA Network, he's going out at the top of his game.Monk is one of those shows that struck a chord with viewers, because we saw a little of ourselves in the phobic detective played brilliantly by Tony Shalhoub. Ok, so maybe we don't all iron our shoelaces and avoid doorknobs like ... well, like the plague. But like Monk, we've all got issues.
And like Monk, some of us have trouble getting out of our own way. For him, that meant losing his detective job with the San Francisco Police Department.
His list of phobias is impressive: snakes, crowds, heights, milk, germs, you name it. But he was so good at his job that his former boss still called on him to solve the tough cases.
And if only we all had someone like Natalie Teeger and her daughter to do all the dirty work, humor our neuroses, and keep us from going over the edge.
With his starched shirts and antibacterial wipes, Monk has been the anti-Columbo of the new millennium, and a great antidote to all the CSI-type shows crowding the airwaves. I'll miss you, Mr. Monk!
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