I have been watching a little bit of Monk lately. The show was on air between 2002-2009 and I never watched it then (as I recall) but I have been watching it slowly usually over breakfast and getting quite a bit out of it. I'm in the second season at the moment. Adrian Monk and his nurse/assistant (she can be both), Sharona. Tony Shalhoub and Bitty Schramm have a really good chemistry and a lot of funny lines. I guess there is a sense in which the show is parodying people 'on the spectrum' etc, though whether that is so much the case that you couldn't make it today, I'm not sure - after all, Monk's neuroses (if you want to call them that, maybe I shouldn't, though some of them I'm pretty sure are nothing more than neuroses) are also what make him a brilliant detective.
It's also full of great guests, like Sarah Silverman as an obsessed fan and Amy Sedaris who plays Sharona's sister. There is one genuinely funny exchange between them which I am sure is an improvisation - it has AS's improv stamp all over it. If not, it's a good scriptwriter response to the potential of AS.
The early 21st century was an interesting time. People talk about looking things up on the internet. They even discuss having cell phones, etc (I mean, I am pretty sure I first got a mobile phone in 1996 or 7, so they weren't a novelty anymore). Computers aren't ubiquitous exactly, but they exist, obviously. In one episode I watched someone used a computerised navigational system that was run off a CD-rom, rather than a satellite, which meant a computer nerd could hack it. I guess what I'm looking at here is a twenty-year-old program, and it really doesn't feel that long ago.
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