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Description: Get even more obsessed with TV's funniest and quirkiest detective series, Monk, as every episode from the smash-hit sixth season comes to DVD on 4 discs! Tony Shalhoub reprises his 3-time Primetime Emmy® Award and Golden Globe-winning role as the brilliant but phobia-laden detective Adrian Monk, who never lets his obsessive-compulsive disorder stop him from solving a crime in the most ingenious way imaginable! Dropping the clues this season are a roster of red-hot guest stars including Alfred Molina, David Koechner, Sarah Silverman, Snoop Dogg, Angela Kinsey and Vincent Ventresca. Take a tip from an insider: you'll be "committed" to the best detective series now on TV! Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-29
Great show. OK DVD
First, let me prefise this by saying I still enjoy the show a bunch but the DVD is lacking.
"Monk" one of the few series I try to watch every week and if I can't, will DVR it. While each episode still follows the same formula from seasons 1-5 (murder happens, Monk solves it), for the most part each case is still quite interesting and the 2-part season finale was great (I certainly hope they keep pushing the Trudy case forward, however).
The DVD, on the other hand, isn't as good and deserved better (maybe it was limited due to the writer's strike). According to the individual slim cases, there are "Video Commentaries" on certain episodes. When I first read that I thought it was an awesome idea, not entirely original but I you don't see that very often. But boy when I played them, I was severely disappointed. These are not video commentaries in the traditional sense. Instead what we got were interviews with the writers on 7 episodes. What they had to say was fine, but I felt it was a bit misleading to call them video commentaries.
The only other feature is one commentary track on "Mr. Monk Stays Up All Night" with Tony Shalhoub, Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford and Director/Exec Producer Randall Zisk. It's a fine track with too many dead spots, however.
The sixth season of "Monk" still features some good episodes and fun cases and, despite the lack of features, is well worth buying! I will definitely be tuning in for season seven (wow, has time flies). Rating: 
Date: 2008-04-26
Monk is the best
I bought all the seasons and I can't wait for the season 6 to come out!
A MUST buy! Rating:
Date: 2008-04-13
Classic Monk
Season Six went back to the formula that made the show one of the highest rated cable shows ever. Adrian's character went through a few new wrinkles (as it did every season) but the show was classic Monk. It works because the show offers a crime, puts Monk in uncomfortable situation which, whether the viewer has OCD or not, can relate to. We have all been frustrated by situations where we feel uncomfortable but there is really nothing we can do about it.
Several of the episodes have quickly become fan favorites. Mr. Monk and the Rapper (not one of my favorites) is off the charts on the USA/Monk website as one of their favorites of all time. Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend gave the relationship between Monk and Captain Stottlemeyer a great deal of tension before it was resolved. Fascinating plot lines were developed in Naked Man, Birds and the Bees, Daredevil, Goes to the Bank, Three Julies, and Joins a Cult.
In the end, Season Six was one of the best because there were no weak episodes and it was capped off with a real barnburner in the two-part finale, Mr. Monk is on the Run. I'm hungry for Season Seven. Rating:
Date: 2008-03-29
Still the best show on TV.
I didn't see any "rough patches" in Season 5, which overall was terrific. If anything, Season 6 was a bit rocky, with some episodes that never really take off (the Birds and the Bees episode, for example). But after six seasons Monk is still the best show on TV, superior, in fact, to the first two-and-a-half seasons with the obnoxious Sharona -- and the episode with the rapper is one of the most fun in the entire series.
It's still a 5-star program, flaws notwithstanding. Nothing more need be said.
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Date: 2008-03-28
I just solved the case
It must be admitted that the fifth season of "Monk" had some rough patches, where Monk's OCD was overwritten and the plots got a bit limp.
But the obsessive compulsive detective is still going, and fortunately "Monk" is still one of the best shows on television. And the sixth season continues "Monk's" grand tradition -- solidly-written mystifying stories, quirky detecting, and some excellent acting from Tony Shalhoub. Even better, the two-part finale really shows "Monk" off at its absolute best.
As the season opens, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) finds that his obsessed groupie Marcy Maven (Sarah Silverman) needs to hire him, despite a restraining order. So she "buys" him at a bachelor auction and makes him work on a bizarre case -- her dog is being accused of killing someone, but the dog died before the murder took place. Needless to say, there's more than meets the eye.
Among the other cases the OCD detective has to deal with: a framed rapper, murder on a nudist beach, an investigation overlapping with Julie's love life, stolen safety-deposit boxes, treasure maps, a daredevil who might be his archnemesis, insomnia, going undercover in a cult, a newfound painting hobby, and a shot Santa. He even has to investigate Stottlemeyer's (Ted Levine) girlfriend.
But the story takes a darker turn toward the end of the season. Monk finds a lead for the "six-fingered man" who killed Trudy, and confronts him... and after a struggle, the six-fingered man is dead. A rural sheriff arrests Monk, but Monk insists that he's innocent -- and he's determined to find out who is framing him. But with the police after him and a conspiracy in motion, can he solve the murder before he's caught?
"Monk" had a bit of a rough patch in the fifth season -- some of the episodes simply didn't gel, and Monk's OCD was written strangely. Fortunately "Monk - Season Six" goes back to what makes the series more enjoyable -- a couple of episodes don't work, like the rapper and the creepy little cult, but these are overshadowed by the better mysteries.
Nope, most of the sixth season is a string of solid murder mysteries -- lots of baffling crimes, obscure clues, and new eccentricities for Monk. Despite all the murder and bittersweet moments, the episodes are peppered with some comedy as well, such as the slow demolition of Stottlemeyer's brand-new car. And there's still plenty of bittersweet ("I'm going to be buried next to Trudy. I can't wait") and/or hilarious dialogue ("She had the oldest profession." "Stonemason, huh?").
And the last two episodes of the sixth season are among the best the series has ever produced. A seemingly straightforward crime story blossoms into a heartrending, suspenseful, dramatic, and genuinely unpredictable story, and gives us a few more clues about Trudy's death.
Tony Shalhoub is lovably oddballish as Adrian Monk, never turning his tragicomic character into a cartoon -- you just want to hug Monk and give him some perfectly symmetrical cookies. Traylor Howard does a solid job as Monk's assistant, and Levine gets to show Stottlemeyer's warmer, laid-back sides, while Jason Gray-Stanford is consistently fun as the puppy-eager Randy Disher -- even getting to sing a Johnny-Cash-style song about Monk's apparent demise.
The sixth season of "Monk" has a couple rough patches, but soars up to brilliant heights near the end. And the obsessive-compulsive detective still seems to have quite a bit of work ahead... |
