I love how Monk sometimes breaks with the conventions of the impossible crime genre by just not explaining how the impossible part was done. Who cares about that nerd stuff? Here's twenty minutes of Tony Shalhoub straightening things.
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Sometimes adding more explanation just makes things more confusing and raises more questions, sometimes it's best to just leave it be
And sometimes it's best to just Tony Shalhoub do his ding dang thing
Utterly adore Monk. Wish they would do another film. My favourite of all the ‘this is what happened’ bits is when Monk was driven crazy by the rubbish strike, and he comes out with an absolutely bizarre (and untrue) one.
Burn Notice doesn't get enough praise. I wasn't a huge fan of the last couple seasons but like it was still pretty good and all the stuff leading up to it was great. The first episode is so amazing with the drug dealer and the drywall.
I was deployed to Iraq from 2009-10 as support for SEAL Team 1. I was in our little galley when the SEAL LT walked up while Army of Darkness was playing on the TV.
"He's that guy from Burn Notice? He plays great washed-up team guy"
Cannot emphasise how little crippling OCD would actually help me in a crime scene.
“Sorry, I didn’t notice the lack of blood splatter around the body I was too busy resisting retracing my steps to stop my neighbours cat getting hit by a car-“
He is Monk: what is to explain. He has a "beautiful mind" that sees all. Much like not asking why Kirk just does not send down the shuttlecraft when the transporter is not working, do not ask why there is no explanation.
I love a procedural that actually shows the procedure. America does not do that much, and when they do they throw in fantasy technology, which may as well be "a wizard did it". The UK does it more often, but not enough.
Ooh, that's a nice idea for a new form of torture:
McGuyver who never shows his work.
He does all the stuff he does, but he just kind of wordlessly build his solutions in the background, he's just out of that prison now, cool.
You are not old enough to remember 'Ellery Queen'.
Ellery Queen would break the forth wall, inviting the
viewer to solve the crime.
He would imply that anyone could be
have been the killer. Even someone who had
not been mentioned in the script.
It was always the special guest star.
Ted Levine is a really good actor and he was fantastic in this role and he’s earned not having you work so hard to try and ruin his career with forced typecasting. Give it a rest already.
Lighten up Dave. He is a good actor and I’m sure his career won’t be damaged in any way from a message on bluesky. I’m sure he has thick skin especially as he does know what pain is.
Sending Ted serious love.
I think the weirdest part of Monk is how often we see the crime at the beginning of the episode. I always thought trying to figure out the culprit along with the detective was a big part of the to genre.
Yeah, about 1/3 of the episodes are Columboesque. But sometimes they don't let Monk spend any time with the perp, and that ruins the fun of a Columbo for me.
I haven't finished it yet, but I love the show.
It was my Dad's last favorite show, when I was his caregiver.
Also, I relate to Monk to a frightening degree.
It makes me feel less bad about my comparative anxieties!
But it made me more sure I'm on the autistic spectrum, too.🤷♀️
My father loved the show. He had a lot of Monk-like idiosyncrasies. I got spectrum issues from both sides, but unfortunately not the cleaning OCD part.
My thing with him/the show is I sort of felt like he was an old fuddy duddy when I watched it the first time (I really liked it) but now I watch it and what was he like 45?
And then there's the time the impossible crime (a skydiver who didn't open his chute is discovered to have died not from the impact, but drowning) was deliberately faked by the coroner who had a murderous personal grudge against Monk and wanted an excuse to get close to him.
I love The Wire but even I wouldn't want every show to explain shit like the legal requirements to obtain a warrant for electronic communication intercepts even if plot relevant.
Мне нравится, как Монк иногда нарушает стандарты жанра неразгадуемых преступлений, просто не объясняя, как было совершено невозможное. Кому нужны эти занудные детали? Вот двадцать минут Тони Шалхуб расставляет вещи.
And for what? For him to arrive at The Hound of The Baskervilles being the result of a top secret government feargas project with the codename H.O.U.N.D that also printed up sweatshirts with the acronym and a guy wore one to a murder and made a kid who saw him remember a hound because of it
I was getting that video recommended to me for months and I kept avoiding it because I know me and I didn’t want to ruin a show I was enjoying. And then one day I watched the first episode of the last season, went straight upstairs and searched the video on YouTube.
I was mostly on board with Sherlock but "forgetting" he has a sibling felt a bit much. I get that it's all implausible hogwash, but there are levels of implausibility & that felt...I dunno...unearned?
"Yes Sherlock has a secret supervillain sister who can 'program' people by talking to them. No we won't elaborate on this superpower, or do anything with the fact that she posed as Watson's therapist for months. Why would we?"
ee, I quite like that they did it with Reichenbach Fall because I think that's a nod to the books never explaining it, but then it kind of collapsed beneath its own conceit.
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And sometimes it's best to just Tony Shalhoub do his ding dang thing
Anyone any thoughts on High Potential?
1. Bruce Campbell crushing his performance as Sam Ax
2. The elaborate spy-Macguyver stuff that explains how the impossible was not only possible but done with stuff from Target
I was deployed to Iraq from 2009-10 as support for SEAL Team 1. I was in our little galley when the SEAL LT walked up while Army of Darkness was playing on the TV.
"He's that guy from Burn Notice? He plays great washed-up team guy"
“Sorry, I didn’t notice the lack of blood splatter around the body I was too busy resisting retracing my steps to stop my neighbours cat getting hit by a car-“
McGuyver who never shows his work.
He does all the stuff he does, but he just kind of wordlessly build his solutions in the background, he's just out of that prison now, cool.
Ellery Queen would break the forth wall, inviting the
viewer to solve the crime.
He would imply that anyone could be
have been the killer. Even someone who had
not been mentioned in the script.
It was always the special guest star.
The creator's of Ellery Queen created another detective
called Drury Lane.
Sending Ted serious love.
Couldn’t watch it
It was my Dad's last favorite show, when I was his caregiver.
Also, I relate to Monk to a frightening degree.
It makes me feel less bad about my comparative anxieties!
But it made me more sure I'm on the autistic spectrum, too.🤷♀️
"Oh, one more thing..."
We watched through Columbo in its entirety.
Also every time I remember the scene where he has words and things floating around his head, and Elvis plays fir a split second? Psychic damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM