When Monk premiered in 2002, the series was unique in many ways — and the Peacock movie Mr. Monk’s Last Case is able to capture almost all of them. But television has changed a lot since TV viewers met Adrian Monk, and where the movie falls flat is in trying to update the classic world of Monk for a 2020s audience. Mr. Monk’s Last Case gives fans everything they’ve been waiting for, but in a much more self-conscious package.It’s no surprise that Peacock got around to making a Monk movie. Series creator Andy Breckman had tried to make one in 2012. The “Monk in Quarantine” short that premiered on Peacock Presents: The At-Home Variety Show Featuring Seth MacFarlane was universally well-received in 2020, and Peacock is home to two of the three Psych movies. But it’s worth noting that Monk paved the way for shows like Psych; it was USA’s first smash hit, and led into USA’s “Blue Sky” era of optimistic TV series that made the whole network popular. That’s how Mr. Monk’s Last Case misses the mark.It’s not a very complicated plot, and that’s fine, because many of the Monk episodes weren’t complicated either. Rather than a whodunit, Mr. Monk’s Last Case makes the killer obvious as soon as he’s introduced, and the tension comes from Monk being able to prove the crime. And James Purefoy is the best new part of the movie. Recognizable from his role in DC’s underappreciated Pennyworth series, Purefoy plays a typical evil billionaire who’s a mashup of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk — his Rick Eden made his money building an online shopping website and is now poised to go into space. He inhabits the role perfectly, knowing the tone of Monk and not taking the character too seriously, while injecting the right amount of menace. If Purefoy’s charming adventures on The Wine Show met his serial killer from The Following, the result would be Rick Eden.
When Monk premiered in 2002, the series was unique in many ways — and the Peacock movie Mr. Monk’s Last Case is able to capture almost all of them. But television has changed a lot since TV viewers met Adrian Monk, and where the movie falls flat is in trying to update the classic world of Monk for a 2020s audience. Mr. Monk’s Last Case gives fans everything they’ve been waiting for, but in a much more self-conscious package.
It’s no surprise that Peacock got around to making a Monk movie. Series creator Andy Breckman had tried to make one in 2012. The “Monk in Quarantine” short that premiered on Peacock Presents: The At-Home Variety Show Featuring Seth MacFarlane was universally well-received in 2020, and Peacock is home to two of the three Psych movies. But it’s worth noting that Monk paved the way for shows like Psych; it was USA’s first smash hit, and led into USA’s “Blue Sky” era of optimistic TV series that made the whole network popular. That’s how Mr. Monk’s Last Case misses the mark.
It’s not a very complicated plot, and that’s fine, because many of the Monk episodes weren’t complicated either. Rather than a whodunit, Mr. Monk’s Last Case makes the killer obvious as soon as he’s introduced, and the tension comes from Monk being able to prove the crime. And James Purefoy is the best new part of the movie. Recognizable from his role in DC’s underappreciated Pennyworth series, Purefoy plays a typical evil billionaire who’s a mashup of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk — his Rick Eden made his money building an online shopping website and is now poised to go into space. He inhabits the role perfectly, knowing the tone of Monk and not taking the character too seriously, while injecting the right amount of menace. If Purefoy’s charming adventures on The Wine Show met his serial killer from The Following, the result would be Rick Eden.
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