the mentalist

I have occasionally had The Mentalist on in the background. Apparently I watched it a long time ago on a weekly basis and on the face of it I apparently found it about as compelling as my grandmother's funeral. 

I really like The Mentalist. As I said in 2010, there are too many murdered women in it, particularly girls, and I feel like the murdered girl thing is a schtick we could do without, though of course, girls do get murdered, whether it happens a lot or a little I don't know. 

The main character is great because he's a kind of superhero but he avoids/runs from physical violence, in both instances somewhat like Sherlock Holmes. Some of the storylines are idiotic, resolved in foolishness that must have had many participants cringing, but many of them are pretty golden. 

The supporting cast is good too. They're sort of like Purdey and Gambit in the New Avengers or something like that although there are four of them not two. But you know, they do all the action, not that Simon Baker is old and infirm (52 or whatever) like Patrick Macnee was in the late 70s but it's not the character's style, really. 

That's what I have to say about The Mentalist. 

I uploaded the picture below by mistake but, you know, everything happens for a reason. 

tbh i don't have much to say about monk

'Adrian Monk the guinea pig' as generated by https://hotpot.ai/art-generator 

The opening credits of Monk change from episode to episode, with all kinds of new bits thrown in but it does build. I am pretty sure that when something is added from a recent episode, they never dispose of it in favour of something older, but I could be wrong. 

The scenes include things like Monk contending with a phone cord twisted up (it's a prison phone but that's not relevant), touching the tip of a car antenna, with a mouse falling on his shoulder, standing in some sewerage. It's pretty interesting. 

Monk is all the best things about Colombo and Sherlock Holmes (i.e. the kind of dysfunctionality but is it dysfunctionality (probably not a word) with a purpose? You know?) and the irritating of people who think they're getting away with murder until it all falls into place and they get. away. with. nothing. 

I don't have much more to say.