Who had been Monk’s main link to the case over the years? Would it have been too much trouble to bring back Dale the Whale, the jailed financier And it ignored important parts of the Trudy mythology that the show had built up. The entire handling of the Trudy mystery over the two-week finale, with Monk poisoned, “D.O.A.”-style, and his assistant, Natalie, moping by his side, felt forced and anticlimactic - as if it wereĪn annoying necessity that had to be dealt with.

(And if you remembered the Season 6 finale, in which papers were found implicating someone named “the Judge” in Trudy’s death, then you Murder, and ordering Monk’s, on the telephone. The answer had been obvious to us, if not to Monk or the San Francisco police, in last week’s show, when it was easy to see that the judge played by Craig T. We knew from the first episode of the show that the finale would involve solving the murder of Adrian Monk’s wife, Trudy, and Friday night’s 125th episode got that out of the way well before the closingĬredits. It also walks away with a tally of 16 Emmy nominations and seven Emmys, including threeįor Tony Shalhoub as lead actor in a comedy. Touch were practically nonexistent eight seasons later, as it leaves, both broadcast and cable schedules are full of them. The spiritual heir of “Murder She Wrote,” it came along in 2002 at a time when cozy, domesticated crime shows with a comic But that was fitting for “ Monk,”Īn unpretentious but consistently entertaining show with a wide influence. It seemed a little shabby, shuffling off the stage on a random Friday night in the television doldrums of December.

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