u/victoria_lake

I love this show. I really do. It is a comfort show. I watched it in real time on USA back in the day (Characters Welcome!!). I’m on my fifthish rewatch now. With every rewatch, I find myself more and more annoyed.

They can’t keep Monk’s backstory straight. For a show about obsessive compulsive disorder and a detective who notices and remembers everything, how could the writers do this to us?? It’s not even the small stuff. It’s the big stuff. When did his dad leave? When did he meet Trudy? How crimes did he solve?

Their attempt at an overarching A-plot (the Trudy mystery) was also weak. I almost want them to remake this show from scratch and try again, but try for real. Give these storylines the attention-to-detail they deserve.

/vent