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Monk is an easy watch, throw on in the background and if you miss a minute not hard to catch up. Acting is good enough with Monk the main culprit slipping level every so often. Monk is a who's who of known actors, every episode has someone recognisable.

You can tell who the murderer is within the first 5 mins , its usually an actress/actor you recognise from other shows of the time but the story is interesting enough to see how it all unfolds.

Seasons 1 and 2 are the stand outs, from 3 onwards it gets daft with Monk becoming more OCD, verging on comedy but still watchable. Would I watch it over again, yes it's a good background TV, very much online with the 70,80 detective shows with the twist of Monk.

Seasons 1 to 3 are good, then it does start to decline. There could be an argument that early seasons are full of random nudity taking up episodes, this reduces over the seasons meaning more storyline is needed. Another obvious decline is in vampire rules, we learn what they can do and how overtime they become stronger, yet Tara is stronger than Pam within first day of being turned. Many other rules go by the way as the seasons progress.

Some characters are wasted others just become annoying but having said this; it's still worth a watch, don't take seriously and ignore the flaws and it winds away the time.