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Monk
2002 · TV series · 8 seasons
Created by Andy Breckman
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
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24 was Fox, if I'm not mistaken, and its format is very much the same as all broadcast shows.
Breaking Bad isn't the same format. No obvious commercial breaks, no saccharine Hays-Code-like bullshit.
Others mentioned The Shield, which is FX, and I tend to think of FX shows as not being of the broadcast mold. Monk was USA, I think, which as a network was borderline, but seems like a few of their original programming shows were not-horrible. Then someone said Deadliest Catch, but that's just cheap reality tv sludge and I feel dirty having typed out its title. Even the worst 1980s NBC sitcom was better than reality tv shows.
It's come to my attention that you're all, every last one of you, watching tv wrong.
This was the plot of a Monk episode if I recall correctly, except jelly beans
It also vaguely reminds me of a Monk episode.
I’m done watching new series. Tons of downsides, waiting for the new season is only one of them.
Shows that I loved and I was invested in got cancelled after two seasons, the ending was rushed because the producers got better gigs, later seasons got dumbed down and lost what made them special, constant pushing of political ideologies, lazy writing, cookie cutter dramas, same actors in every Spanish shows…
Yeah, when I seldom have the chance to watch something, I’m good with an episode of Monk, Friends or other classics I haven’t seen in two decades…
Yeah, like saying 'tetherball' or 'keep-away' to someone in the US; which I only know from a Monk episode I watched last night.
I didn't know and wouldn't have guessed there were world championships, though.
> In the U.S. television series Monk, the title character (Adrian Monk) usually uses this method with the words "here's what happened".
You hear a lot of Developer Dénouements in the coding business, in person and in pull requests. The common phrase that captures my attention in his context is often "It turns out that ...". Whatever comes after that is usually interesting.
The instant gratification part of my brain is constantly at war with the environmentalist part of my brain and that passion play happens at least weekly due to my HE washing machine, which takes fucking forever to finish a load, especially now that yardwork has become a priority hobby (pre-soak + heavy soil).
I don't know if the solution is fewer sensors or more sensors, but the way it fills the bowl feels like watching an episode of Monk. And not the ones where his OCD is cute, the ones where it ends up costing him dearly.
They probably have better data on why they are losing subscribers than I do, and presumably they can see things like an IP address used by one subscription, then that subscription being cancelled, then the same IP address being used by a different subscription. But …
I have subscribed to Netflix for nearly twenty years, since it was a DVD delivery service, and I am very close to cancelling my subscription because they simply don't deliver good content. The presence of the red N in the corner of a video is a signal that the show or movie is probably garbage, and almost everything has that red N; the stuff that doesn't is typically middle- or lowbrow filler content.
Now, part of that is not Netflix's fault: there is a paucity of stuff worth watching in 2022 compared to decades past. There is no Parks & Rec, no Office, no Castle, no Monk, no Psych, no Bones, no light-hearted, innocent fun. At least, none that I have seen. For Pete's sake, we live in an era which managed to ruin Star Wars!
Still, their Netflix original content could be much better than it is; it is still for the most part bargain-basement stuff. Why subscribe to Netflix when I can read a book instead?
First thing that came to mind was a Monk episode.
https://imdb.com/title/tt1268705
Thanks. The pattern isn't perfect but the trend is clear. These are Season 1, excluding pilots.
A-Team (1983): 49m
MacGyver (1985, original): 48m
Quantum Leap (1989): 47-48m
X-Files (1993): 43-44m
Monk (2002): 44m
Eureka (2006): 44m
MacGyver (2016, remake): 42-43m
>a suit and no tie; as far as I know he's the first President to attempt that look. But it's been a fairly common look among youngish men for well over a decade.
Also popular with Monk from the eponymous tv series.
> If Clay isn’t surfing (...) then he’s probably watching > slow-motion videos of himself, which he’s been known to > study for ten hours straight.
since i saw the first autism movie (monk ?), i had a thought that autistic people seem to be a perfectionist (a road to a professionalism)
i never saw or meet autistic people in a real life. so, the article seems convince me.
As a fan of the TV show "Monk" the first thing I thought of was his catchphrase "Wipe! Wipe! Wipe!"
*from the article: "Whenever I do shake a hand I’m completely aware of it, can’t stop thinking about it, until I can wash my hands."