My parents lent me a couple of seasons of Monk. They love this show. A lot. They actually bought seasons of the show on DVD, which doubled their DVD collection since they have so few DVDs. They love this show so much they named their cat Mr Monk. I had never actually seen the show until yesterday, and as of this writing, I have watched season 1...which is about 9 hours of Monk.
It has some genuine, yet obvious humor. But all in all, it is a fairly generic show. And I realize just how generic it was, but comparing it to Eureka, which is one of the few show I am following at the moment. In Monk, we have this extremely intelligent guy who is set apart from all the normal people around him because of his obsessive compulsive tendencies he doesn't have. In Eureka, you have this extremely average guy who is set apart from all the normal people around him because they are all super geniuses with huge intellects he doesn't have. It both shows, there current success to failure ration of 1mil to 0 doesn't stop the fact that only 1 person out of the entire cast thinks he is right where all the others think they are crazy. 9/10 of the time the happenstance usage of a word by a secondary or tertiary member of the cast in the last 10 minutes of the show is all it takes to go from knowing someone/something is guilty to proving they are.
And I know, everything is formulaic. These just popped into my head when I decided I wanted to post about something.
On a total side note: I hate it when there are electric shock type noises in the songs I am listening to that coincide with all the lights flashing on my hub. It gets bright and then suddenly dark, so for about half second, just long enough to start to sit up, I think there was a short. Sigh.
