well I don't love this show as a whole but ok Adrian Monk is loveable, won me over at end of pilot, meeting with his psychiatrist, how moved Monk is that his doctor is going to recommend he be reinstated (as detective w the police force). and then a closing scene with Sharona who wins me over there, asks how it went, he shrugs, she says sth like we'll get em next time c'mon I'll make dinner, he says right it's Tuesday chicken potpie night, she said no I was thinking tonite -- he stops -- I'm just kidding. and he is touching each of the ~pillars as they resume walking along waterside (set in SFr) and she says Monk you missed one. aw.

now playing Mr Monk v Cobra wh I see is the episd after the one that intr'd Natalie and she does seem flat in comparison. but it's early and she was asking him to pay her expenses and seemed impersonal...