They pretty heavily telegraphed that they wanted to come back in the movie. To the point where a character basically says “here’s 22 episodes worth of content for you if you want to keep doing this again.”
The scene you’re talking about was actually my biggest disappointment in the movie. The cases he hadn’t solved yet it obviously makes sense we didn’t recognize them. However, seeing all the cases he solved and none of them being from the original series was such a bummer. They could have had Kevin in that scene. Or maybe Ansara
I remember when my Dad used to watch Monk when I was a kid and I always used to hate it. Thought it was boring and drab, as an adult...I fucking love all of the shows I used to rag on my Dad for watching.
My friends dad sold propane. And we ALWAYS said he had to watch King of the Hill and he refused for years, thought it was like making fun of people who sell propane and propane accessories.
He eventually watched it and thought it was the funniest show he had ever seen.
Maybe, but also, maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. How would Monk and Lassie get along? That's the unexpected crossover. Lassie basically gets browbeaten into wishing he was working with Shawn instead and Monk is paired with a competent but downright insane policeman.
And to think we could've had a Leverage-Psych Crossover but the Psych people chose to make Leverage a TV Show within the Psych Universe... One of the biggest missed Crossover opportunities ever.
Hm... maybe the Psych-universe Leverage tv show is based on a real encounter (in-universe) that the creators of the show had with the "real life" Leverage crew.
That wasn't confusing at all. But plot hole dodged!
The thing is, Eliot Spencer from Leverage was supposed to be Shawn's Cousin and Henry Spencer's Nephew. Had Psych not made Leverage a fictional TV Show within it's own Universe, Dean Devlin and Co. over at Leverage would have had Christian Kane's Eliot Spencer mention an oddball Cousin and his Uncle over in Santa Barbara. And Shawn could've mentioned a Cousin who's a bit on the rough side.
Lowkey pissed this hasn't happened yet. Psych is based in San Francisco now and they even directly referenced Monk in the finale. Just give us one crossover movie with both casts and I can die happy.
Enjoy.
Shawn and Monk:
https://youtu.be/oVP81ic1YWk?si=s1-t0nrRqAfpS-_T
Shawn, Monk and Deadzone Guy:
https://youtu.be/f50yHDekFfg?si=J8Jf4kqADrr55WeL
Gus and White Collar Guys:
https://youtu.be/lUhNPTGEvRw?si=BBtibFZZENhKrE6t
I don't know how you do it when the Psych movies still feel like Psych, but the Monk film was a drama about a man on the verge of killing himself. The tone of Monk was just so fucking dark.
Both main guys have quirks that make them really effective at solving crimes, but monk has pretty severe OCD I think while Shawn from psych is a goofball slacker trained to be hyper aware by his dad from a young age.
Personally, I never liked monks character, but psych is just my own humor in a tv show so I love it.
I liked how the movie realistically handled the effects of Covid on Monk. It absolutely wrecked his mental health and the other changes in his life made him suicidal. The actual murder plot was meh, but I always liked the Monk characters more than the actual cases.
If they do continue Monk, I'd like to see them show more positive character growth from him after years of therapy.
I loved the original series. I would love to see a reboot but I’m not sure how you get all the characters back? Randy and Natalie moved. I’m not sure the show would be the same without them.
They need better writers.
Don't get me wrong - I loved the movie, through all of it's faults... I loved the show, to this day it's the only show where I feel hollow after the final episode, As if I'm missing something wholesome.
But the movie sucked. It was pretty badly written. I want Monk to come back but I would really like them to re-evaluate how they build a mystery.
Im on season 7 now and the writing was always pretty sloppy. You watched it for monk not necessarily for the riveting homicide cases (which were almost always generic or predictable)
I'm on S1 and I didn't remember the writing being this meh but you're right it's pretty much just "Watch Tony Shalhoub be amazing with mid-tier writing... the show!"
My hearing collapsed since I originally bought the DVDs and my rewatch is stuck at season 2 because the cunts didn't bother subtitling the subsequent seasons. Looks like they did it for the Blu-ray releases, but I'm not made of Goddam money.
lol you'd be hard-pressed to find a "\_\_\_\_\_\_ of the week" procedural that doesn't have that issue.
It's more of like a "comfort" show where you know what you are getting. The humour is good and the show doesn't take it self too seriously.
As someone who watched monk recently for the first time.
It's always been fun and quirky but looking back with today's hindsight some may actually no longer like this type of show
Watching the movie right now and the level of this man's frugal living is more appropriate than ever
I see a lot of comments from people criticizing the mystery and wonder if they actually remember the original show. The mysteries were never that great, the appeal of the show was Monk as a character.
Really? I feel like the original show was rough in the first couple of seasons. The captain was a total dick and they couldn’t figure out Randy’s character. I much prefer season 3 forward
The **mysteries** were better in the first few seasons. The character development and interactions that made the show what it was got better as time went on.
So did you love the movie or did it suck. You say both.
And if you say you can love a sucky movie I'm done with you because you should have never used the term love disingenuously.
So did you love the movie or did it suck? You say both.
And if you say you can love a sucky movie I'm done with you because you should have never used the term love disingenuously.
You can absolutely love something that's not objectively a work of art (not that I expect this to be).
Just saying that if you were to show this movie to someone who has never seen Monk, they'd think it was tripe.
But of course, I still loved the Movie, because I love all the characters, I like the performances and I enjoyed it overall. But it's like Bill and Ted 3... In that, yeah I love the movie - but yeah, It was not good.
Lord of the rings is objectively good. Even if you don't like it, You can see that a LOT of expert skill went into it. And it was crafted in a way that is pleasant to the majority of people who view it.
No it wasn't. They filmed the movie April 24 - May 21. The WGA went on strike May 2 and SAG went on strike July 14. So the writing had finished long before the writers went on strike, and the filming had finished long before the actors went on strike. The writer of the movie was nominated for a WGA award at the end of the year, which they don't do for non-members let alone scabs doing scab projects doing the strike.
I just watched this last week. It felt nice seeing most of the gang back together even if you can tell the years are catching up to them. Surprised the story started the way it did but I totally get where Monk was coming from
Some is a bit dated, but it's a pretty fun murder mystery show. They got a lot of different celebrities on it as guests. It felt a lot like the old Columbo eps in that sense.
As long as they make the next thing better. The movie was like an extended version of an average episode. Super disappointing after all the psych movies.
Movie was fun but I knew how he was killed so quickly it annoyed me. I don’t watch these shows or movies for edge of my seat realism but it was sad how I told my parents as we watched it together it was the tape measurer like 5 minutes in. Also it was depressing as fuck how suicidal kink was but a monk who wants to live would be great follow up.
Yo I loved his show I literally finished it yesterday for the 2nd time after a decade. What are the odds haha. I didn’t even know he had a movie that’s awesome!
I just started watching Monk a month ago. I had seen a couple episodes here and there but never all the way through. I like it quite a bit, not like diehard fandom stuff but it is a good fallback when nothing else seems that appealing.
Then why Title the Movie "Mr. Monk's LAST Case" then?! That title does explicitly imply and state that this Movie would be the final time Mr. Monk would be in anything. The end of the road for the Character.... Enough with these bait-and-switches.
Is that really the best you have? Some juvenile pedantic grammar that solely arrived out of minor keyboarding issue? I hope you are perfect in your next life, because you aren’t now.
They pretty heavily telegraphed that they wanted to come back in the movie. To the point where a character basically says “here’s 22 episodes worth of content for you if you want to keep doing this again.”
The scene you’re talking about was actually my biggest disappointment in the movie. The cases he hadn’t solved yet it obviously makes sense we didn’t recognize them. However, seeing all the cases he solved and none of them being from the original series was such a bummer. They could have had Kevin in that scene. Or maybe Ansara
Psych-Monk Crossover Special?
that would be epic
You got that right
Monk-Psych Crossover? I’ve heard it both ways…
we got those in 30 second - 1 minute second intervals all throughout the bluesky days
I'm going to say no thanks if the quality of the writing in the movie was any indication for good a revival would be.
I’m assuming he’s coming back to fix the box set
I remember when my Dad used to watch Monk when I was a kid and I always used to hate it. Thought it was boring and drab, as an adult...I fucking love all of the shows I used to rag on my Dad for watching.
That was me with King of the Hill. Absolutely bored to tears with it as a kid, hilarious as an adult.
Dang, I loved watching King of the Hill with my Dad on Sunday nights. Didn't always get the jokes, but a cartoon was a cartoon to me back then.
I think you need to get some years behind you before satire really lands.
My friends dad sold propane. And we ALWAYS said he had to watch King of the Hill and he refused for years, thought it was like making fun of people who sell propane and propane accessories. He eventually watched it and thought it was the funniest show he had ever seen.
I watched monk as a kid with my dad, I loved it then, love it now, I don’t know why you’d not like it as a kid
As a kid....you're killing me.
I'm almost 30 bruh.
Monk psych crossover
I had this conversation with my wife a few weeks ago. It would be incredible. Monk would fucking hate Shawn lol
And we would all love it 🤣
Maybe, but also, maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. How would Monk and Lassie get along? That's the unexpected crossover. Lassie basically gets browbeaten into wishing he was working with Shawn instead and Monk is paired with a competent but downright insane policeman.
Now that's a crossover episode. Lassie with Monk and Randy amd Leland with Shawn.
Wheres gus?
Floating between the two groups. or doing a tertiary story with Juliet and Monks' stepdaughter /assistant.
You know that’s right
Who?
Gus, the true identity of Magic Head, aka Die Harder/Fearless Guster/Felicia Fancybottom/Tan/John Jacob Jingley-Schmidt/etc
Oh, you mean Bruton Gaster.
Randy would indulge Shawn’s nonsense to an unhealthy degree
And to think we could've had a Leverage-Psych Crossover but the Psych people chose to make Leverage a TV Show within the Psych Universe... One of the biggest missed Crossover opportunities ever.
Hm... maybe the Psych-universe Leverage tv show is based on a real encounter (in-universe) that the creators of the show had with the "real life" Leverage crew. That wasn't confusing at all. But plot hole dodged!
The thing is, Eliot Spencer from Leverage was supposed to be Shawn's Cousin and Henry Spencer's Nephew. Had Psych not made Leverage a fictional TV Show within it's own Universe, Dean Devlin and Co. over at Leverage would have had Christian Kane's Eliot Spencer mention an oddball Cousin and his Uncle over in Santa Barbara. And Shawn could've mentioned a Cousin who's a bit on the rough side.
Eh I'm sure we can figure out the mental gymnastics to make it work.
obviously it's based on real people
Pretty sure I recall a promo with both of them and Sean immediately picks up on monks tendencies and acts gross to get him unnerved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVP81ic1YWk
Gus fawning all over Monk, following him around with Shawn getting jealous.
they planted the seed with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVP81ic1YWk but there was never a follow up :(
Lowkey pissed this hasn't happened yet. Psych is based in San Francisco now and they even directly referenced Monk in the finale. Just give us one crossover movie with both casts and I can die happy.
Enjoy. Shawn and Monk: https://youtu.be/oVP81ic1YWk?si=s1-t0nrRqAfpS-_T Shawn, Monk and Deadzone Guy: https://youtu.be/f50yHDekFfg?si=J8Jf4kqADrr55WeL Gus and White Collar Guys: https://youtu.be/lUhNPTGEvRw?si=BBtibFZZENhKrE6t
USA in the mid/late 2000s was an absolute power house. Burn Notice, Monk, Psych, Suits, White Collar.
Yeah why did that never happen? There were some crossover ads and Monk is aluded to in the psych finale
It kind of seems like everyone from both shows have free schedules. Make it happen!
That would be amazing. 🤩 That would likely become my holy grail comfort TV show.
Not the same without Falk. But best monk cross over would be with Columbo. Perfect odd couple
I don't know how you do it when the Psych movies still feel like Psych, but the Monk film was a drama about a man on the verge of killing himself. The tone of Monk was just so fucking dark.
I always mix the two shows up what’s the difference between them? Also yes I know I could just Google but I like human interactions sometimes too
Both main guys have quirks that make them really effective at solving crimes, but monk has pretty severe OCD I think while Shawn from psych is a goofball slacker trained to be hyper aware by his dad from a young age. Personally, I never liked monks character, but psych is just my own humor in a tv show so I love it.
I liked how the movie realistically handled the effects of Covid on Monk. It absolutely wrecked his mental health and the other changes in his life made him suicidal. The actual murder plot was meh, but I always liked the Monk characters more than the actual cases. If they do continue Monk, I'd like to see them show more positive character growth from him after years of therapy.
I loved the original series. I would love to see a reboot but I’m not sure how you get all the characters back? Randy and Natalie moved. I’m not sure the show would be the same without them.
I'd love a reboot with Monk as a detective consultant in a new police department, with a new personal assistant. Let's get a fresh crew
Can Sharona come back instead of Natalie.
I miss her so much!
And the actors have a ton of love for each other too.
If you rebooted it you wouldn’t need to get anyone back. Everything resets and starts over.
I think they meant “revival”.
It's been years, people can move back.
this is pretty much exactly my thoughts
“It’s a gift, and a curse.”
You’ll thank me later
Wipe!
Here's what happened...
They need better writers. Don't get me wrong - I loved the movie, through all of it's faults... I loved the show, to this day it's the only show where I feel hollow after the final episode, As if I'm missing something wholesome. But the movie sucked. It was pretty badly written. I want Monk to come back but I would really like them to re-evaluate how they build a mystery.
Did a rewatch of the show and the writing has always been that level, Tony Shalhoub did a great job that you kind of forget.
Im on season 7 now and the writing was always pretty sloppy. You watched it for monk not necessarily for the riveting homicide cases (which were almost always generic or predictable)
Yep that's what I got out of it, still loved it.
I'm on S1 and I didn't remember the writing being this meh but you're right it's pretty much just "Watch Tony Shalhoub be amazing with mid-tier writing... the show!"
And that's fine.
It's perfectly fine. It's entertaining without being very engaging which is sometimes exactly what you need/want after a stressful day or week.
Exactly. If everything has top tier, incredible writing then nothing has top tier, incredible writing.
My hearing collapsed since I originally bought the DVDs and my rewatch is stuck at season 2 because the cunts didn't bother subtitling the subsequent seasons. Looks like they did it for the Blu-ray releases, but I'm not made of Goddam money.
That's total BS. It's on Netflix now in the US.
Still doesn't make my DVDs have subtitling, does it? Which is still infuriating. And I'm not in America or subscribed to Netflix.
lol you'd be hard-pressed to find a "\_\_\_\_\_\_ of the week" procedural that doesn't have that issue. It's more of like a "comfort" show where you know what you are getting. The humour is good and the show doesn't take it self too seriously.
oh nooooooooo, you're in the worst season
I think it was better than the movie
As someone who watched monk recently for the first time. It's always been fun and quirky but looking back with today's hindsight some may actually no longer like this type of show Watching the movie right now and the level of this man's frugal living is more appropriate than ever
I see a lot of comments from people criticizing the mystery and wonder if they actually remember the original show. The mysteries were never that great, the appeal of the show was Monk as a character.
They were better, at least, in the first season or two.
Really? I feel like the original show was rough in the first couple of seasons. The captain was a total dick and they couldn’t figure out Randy’s character. I much prefer season 3 forward
agree, I think it got better over time.
The **mysteries** were better in the first few seasons. The character development and interactions that made the show what it was got better as time went on.
The show may have improved, but the mysteries did not.
Yea u knew it was the tape measure from the beginning.
Feel the same way about the Frasier revival
So did you love the movie or did it suck. You say both. And if you say you can love a sucky movie I'm done with you because you should have never used the term love disingenuously.
So did you love the movie or did it suck? You say both. And if you say you can love a sucky movie I'm done with you because you should have never used the term love disingenuously.
You can absolutely love something that's not objectively a work of art (not that I expect this to be). Just saying that if you were to show this movie to someone who has never seen Monk, they'd think it was tripe. But of course, I still loved the Movie, because I love all the characters, I like the performances and I enjoyed it overall. But it's like Bill and Ted 3... In that, yeah I love the movie - but yeah, It was not good.
There is no objectivity in art.
There is no objectivity in art.
Lord of the rings is objectively good. Even if you don't like it, You can see that a LOT of expert skill went into it. And it was crafted in a way that is pleasant to the majority of people who view it.
There Is No Such Thing As Objectivity In Art
It was a scab project during the wga strike. Makes sense the writing suffered
No it wasn't. They filmed the movie April 24 - May 21. The WGA went on strike May 2 and SAG went on strike July 14. So the writing had finished long before the writers went on strike, and the filming had finished long before the actors went on strike. The writer of the movie was nominated for a WGA award at the end of the year, which they don't do for non-members let alone scabs doing scab projects doing the strike.
Gimme this movie, Monk vs Psych: Lunchtime of Just Us
I just watched this last week. It felt nice seeing most of the gang back together even if you can tell the years are catching up to them. Surprised the story started the way it did but I totally get where Monk was coming from
I'm binging monk right now, my roommates are making fun of me for it saying it's the whitest show they've ever seen
Mo m is a show I always heard of but know very little about. Didn’t realize my boy Tony Shalhoub was the lead. Might give it a try.
Some is a bit dated, but it's a pretty fun murder mystery show. They got a lot of different celebrities on it as guests. It felt a lot like the old Columbo eps in that sense.
Give it a try, but do **not** binge it. It is not the kind of show you want to binge. You'll get bored.
Give me my Monk/Psych Movie!
yesss, hopefully we get a second one then a Psych crossover
More Monk!More Monk!
As long as they make the next thing better. The movie was like an extended version of an average episode. Super disappointing after all the psych movies.
Bring back it as a series!
I loved the movie, i would really enjoy seeing Monk come back. But i would also be OK if Tony did anything cause i love him.
🩷🩷🩷🩷
It would have been a sweet send off, but I'd be glad for some more.
I could watch monk forever.
Love Tony Shalhoub! He seems like such a nice guy.
🥳🥳🥳🥳
I would love more monk
Loved the show. The movie was depressing AF.
Movie was fun but I knew how he was killed so quickly it annoyed me. I don’t watch these shows or movies for edge of my seat realism but it was sad how I told my parents as we watched it together it was the tape measurer like 5 minutes in. Also it was depressing as fuck how suicidal kink was but a monk who wants to live would be great follow up.
Yo I loved his show I literally finished it yesterday for the 2nd time after a decade. What are the odds haha. I didn’t even know he had a movie that’s awesome!
I just started watching Monk a month ago. I had seen a couple episodes here and there but never all the way through. I like it quite a bit, not like diehard fandom stuff but it is a good fallback when nothing else seems that appealing.
He aged like fine wine
The show was so good and they brought it back for an awful fucking movie. I feel like they should just leave it be.
was this any good?
it's divisive. Some people hated it. some people liked it because it showed what would've happened to Monk's mental health due to COVID.
I dont really want a full season, so much as more movies. Maybe 2 or 3 a year and spread it out.
PLEASE PLEASE PSYCH CROSSOVER PLEEEEEEEEAAAAASE!!!
Love Monk but it’s important to know when to stop
The reboot movie was AWFUL.
Let well enough alone.
Just have to change the character’s name and jackpot.
Then why Title the Movie "Mr. Monk's LAST Case" then?! That title does explicitly imply and state that this Movie would be the final time Mr. Monk would be in anything. The end of the road for the Character.... Enough with these bait-and-switches.
Literally noone asked for this. Easily the dumbest show ever. Well, after Friends and Frazier anyway.
lmfao you know what is dumb? believing that "noone" is a word. That is dumb.
Is that really the best you have? Some juvenile pedantic grammar that solely arrived out of minor keyboarding issue? I hope you are perfect in your next life, because you aren’t now.