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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 1125463" data-attributes="member: 696">Stop, stop, stop...Monk is like Columbo because he knows who the criminal is from early on in the episode.  It's a matter of finding the evidence to convict the guy.However, it's not about the mystery.  That's not the charm of Monk.  The charm is watching a total neurotic (Monk) trying unsuccessfully to put aside his neuroses, working on the case.For instance, one time (from a commercial I saw) he was willing to give up a case because to proceed would involve talking to a naked man.Or in Mexico (another episode I missed, dang it, except for the end), he's so terrified of the water that his dehydration is interfering with his search.And so on.  Think more Felix Unger (the Odd Couple) meets Columbo.  A brilliant guy who just happens to be about 12 cards short of a full deck.Add in his nurse/assistant Sharona, his former boss from the police who still likes him, the young detective in the police who wants to one-up him, and so on.It's a matter of personalities, not mysteries.Of course, this is coming from someone who has only managed to see two episodes out of four or five so far. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>