"Monk," have you seen it? It blows. Some people at Christopher's message board somehow got it in their heads that "Monk" would be like the show of his dreams or something and that he should watch it, and now look what's happened, we've watched it for two weeks in a row and it stinks. For the record, he can take it or leave it, but it gives me like some horrible TV virus.
First of all, who wants to watch Tony Shalhoub for an hour? I know some people do, but woof. Of course, I would gladly watch a show that is based entirely around Enrique Murciano smirking and threatening people for an hour, but what do I know? Pretty good television, obviously.
It's like ... the Monk character is written so BIG AND HAMFISTED but he downplays it all tiny and that's supposed to equivocate the APEX OF DEFT COMEDIC GENIUS! when really it's like, he's just being Andy Kaufman on "Taxi" without the accent. This show is so precious and cute and in love with itself that it puts me on the rag. HIS NAME IS MONK! BUT HE'S NOT A MONK! IT'S CRAZY! Also, it looks like crap, like it's shot at a domed community for the elderly someplace in Saskatchewan. Did I happen to mention I hate this show?
And P.S., how did they get Randy Newman to contribute a theme song anyway. "Dude WTF," you are probably saying, "how can you derogate Tony Shalhoub and praise Randy Newman?" Oho, some mysteries cannot be explained. The one good thing that came out of this is that Christopher and I now take turns coming up with our own "Randy Newman's Theme From Monk," such as
Let me tell ya 'bout a guy named Monk
He's on a show called "Monk"
'Bout a guy named Monk, yup
He's solvin' crimes an' washin' his hands a lot
We gonna watch it right now
Hey there! We gonna
We gonna watch it right now
Oh man, I love me some Randy Newman. Why can't he do a theme for a decent show? Like if he did one for "Without a Trace," that would be outstanding.
People
They go missin'
And then there's people
Who find the people goin' missin'
Ooh, I'll have to keep working on that one.
Posted by Kim at January 27, 2004 08:36 AM | Moving Pictures