Monk could have been a worthy successor to Columbo (a show I liked). Despite the intrusion of Monk's OCD and the plodding investigation, the seeming complexity of the crimes committed would be the best reason many a viewer could fixate upon. Unfortunately, the solutions are a let-down. Even I figured out how the world's fattest man, who happens to be bedridden, could commit a murder some distance away, or how a fake psychic be transported to the scene of a crime when she had no knowledge of the place and was not a real psychic to begin with. Even the guys at CSI could have solved the crime in minutes. If you think about it, the crimes committed are not really weird; it's just the cops involved in it are too lazy! They have to go to Monk, who takes care of the deductions, something the regular detectives could have done in their sleep. Still, I like it. I just hope the writers could really come up with an intellectual solution worthy of the complex crimes they create.
Review of Mr. Monk and the Candidate
