Buy The First Season Series Premiere Episode On DVD Now By Clicking On The Text Link Below!
Monk - The Premiere Episode
Buy The First Season Series Premiere Episode On DVD Now By Clicking On The
Text Link Below!
Monk - The Premiere Episode
Title: Monk: Second Season Premiere:
“Mr. Monk Goes Back To School”
Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Ted
Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford
Guest Star: Andrew McCarthy
Executive Producers: Andy Breckman,
David Hoberman, and Tony Shalhoub
Running Time: 44 minutes without
commercials
Media: USA Original Second Season
Series Premiere (NTSC VHS Screener)
Second Season Premiere Friday, June 20,
2003, at 10pm (ET/PT)
Network: USA Network Television (Check
your local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV Rating: Not Available At Time Of
Review
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
Golden Globe Award® Winning Actor Tony
Shalhoub is one of the most versatile actors on both the big and small screens.
This actor has appeared in a variety of feature films that include “Gattacca,”
“Galaxy Quest,” “The Man Who Wasn’t There,” and both “Men In
Black” films and that is just scratching the surface. I don’t know Mr.
Shalhoub personally, but I greatly admire his work and am very happy he is
getting the recognition he deserves from playing the title character of the
acclaimed hit TV series “Monk.” “Monk” has been so popular that the ABC
broadcast television network started airing reruns after the first season ran on
the USA Network.
For those not yet familiar with the
show, Tony Shalhoub plays the title role of Adrienne Monk, a brilliant detective
who suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder, which had cost him his job as a
homicide detective on the San Francisco Police Department. Since his wife’s
tragic and still unsolved murder, Monk’s condition has worsened to include
phobias that include fear of germs, heights, crowds, and just about everything
else. Thus for Monk to solve his crimes as a private detective, he has to
overcome great obstacles other people might take for granted on a day-to-day
basis. Fortunately he has the companionship of his Nurse Sharona, (Bitty Schram),
who accompanies him on his investigations, which often bring him into conflict
with his former police Captain played by Ted Levine.
This season Monk continues to
investigate baffling, seemingly impossible crimes including: the murder of the
world’s oldest man, a victim who apparently drowned in mid-air while
parachuting, and a string of murders committed by a man in a coma.
The second season premiere episode “Mr. Monk Goes Back To School” has Monk going undercover as a substitute high school teacher to determine whether a teacher’s fall from a clock tower was really a suicide, or a homicide. Andrew McCarthy guest stars as a particularly smarmy and adversarial schoolteacher suspect. The opening episode mixes the same amount of character drama and humor with not so much a “who done it” as a how did it really happen? A solid opening for what should be another fascinating season of the most original detective show on television. The second premiere of “Monk” will debut on the USA Network on Friday, June 20, 2003, at 10pm (ET/PT) and “Monk” fans take note, the series premiere is coming to DVD on Tuesday, June 24, 2003. Click on the text link below to buy it.
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