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MONK
April 28, 2020  | By David Bianculli

Sundance, 1:00 p.m. ET

 
Perhaps this particular series marathon, which runs today on Sundance for 12 straight episodes beginning at 1 p.m. ET, is a little too close to home – at least homes worried about cleanliness and casual human touch and interaction. Because Adrian Monk, played to nervous perfection by Tony Shalhoub, is all of that and more: a detective with OCD, whose brain is as ultra-focused in some ways as it is distracted in others. Monk never plays this for cruel laughs, just knowing smiles – and Monk, the best detective show and character TV produced since Peter Falk in Columbo, should indeed prove soothing, as well as entertaining, in these times. Even with all the hand-washing and surface-wiping…
 
 
 
 
 
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