LexieLily

Watched that episode tonight. The date itself was hysterical (Monk, would you have made Trudy walk up 54 flights of stairs?!), but I did think there was something oddly sweet/sad/poignant about Monk's table of note-cards that gave him everything to say when he called her on the phone. I had to give a little side-eye to Stottlemeyer/Sharona/Randy for not warning Monk that the restaurant he chose was 54 stories up on the roof, given that heights and elevators are two of his phobias. His answer to Dr. Kroger's "what is the worst that could happen?" broke my heart. "I might not hate it."

The episode where Monk and Sharona went undercover at that couples' retreat and Sharona slept in the pop-up tent in the middle of the floor and he wouldn't allow her to use the shared bathroom. Hee! I just saw that episode recently and it cracked me up.

This is my first viewing of the show and, taking into consideration how the majority of shows go these days, I was convinced that the show would ultimately end with Monk in a relationship with Sharona (before I knew she wasn't there for the entire series) or Natalie. Clearly this is not the case. Though I'm sure even hinting at any type of relationship for Monk would have been complicated given how absolutely consumed he was by Trudy and his grief over her death. Was there ever any hint of Monk/Sharona or Monk/Natalie or Monk/anyone?

If that was meant to be a spoiler, I did read on Wikipedia that Sharona ends up with Randy. Who is thankfully just harmlessly dumb, not evil.

Of course Monk couldn't stop her from leaving, but he always knew that Sharona's boyfriends/guys she liked were all losers (it didn't hurt that a majority of them were also the murderer-of-the-week), so you'd think she would have listened to him more often.

I will. I just haven't watched yet because I've been too busy watching other things.

I'm now starting season three and, knowing there are only a few episodes left until Sharona leaves to make way for Natalie, am wondering how they worked it to get Sharona to leave. Wikipedia says she and Benjy went back to New Jersey to get back with her ex-husband/Benjy's dad, but that doesn't make much sense to me because of the episode in the second season where he wanted them back and Sharona seemed open to it and was actually going to move until she learned that he only wanted her/Benjy back to inherit from an uncle of his. So how did he con Sharona this time?

I'm going to watch them when I get the chance. 🙂

I vaguely remember them from years ago and they are still in the DVR queue from when I recorded some in March. Lol

McBride! Yay!

I finally found the thread for this show, yay! This show was recommended to me by a friend so I recorded the entire series off of Hallmark earlier this summer and am just getting through season two - just saw the S2 finale tonight, where Monk learned that the bomb was in fact meant for Trudy all along, which implies that the majority of his breakdown post-death was due in part to his belief that the bomb/murder was meant for him, or killing her was a way to get to him. 😞

Maybe that's why they rarely share scenes or even pretend like the other exists. There's no way to pass BM and SBu off as twins.

I don't want to hear Sam say anything about Franco ever again, because this version of Sam is completely unfazed by sexual assault and trauma to her person. Who on earth would use getting her tattoo removed from when she was forcibly drugged and almost raped as a precursor to sexy-times?

What happened to Duff? Did he peace out after the first season?

The only way I accept Nikolas being alive is if he immediately removes the interlopers from his home, takes his money back and leaves Valentin with nothing, and makes it so that Valentin is forced to give up all rights to the daughter he stole from Lulu. He also needs to learn and do something about the serial killer raising his nephews.