Monk

On thursday we watched an episode of the award winning WhoDunit television series Monk. The episode was called the Case of the Voodoo Curse. In this episode Mink is called in to investigate the mysterious death of a woman who was hit on the head with a baseball. After her death, her family finds a box in the woman's house, and inside that box is a voodoo doll with a baseball stitched to its head. The weird thing is it was mailed 3 days before she died. 2 other people die, and each one ofthem have a voodoo doll mailed to their house a short while before they die. I did not like watching this show because evidence and clues are scarce, as compared to Sherlock Holmes where a lot of clues are found and the reader or the watcher, in the case of the Sherlock Holmes movie, must figure out the puzzle for himself and that is what makes it fun to red or watch. Monk however does not have many clues and the whole effect of "reader figuring out puzzle and then being surprised by surprise"ending is ruined when Monk explains the whole thing in a car chase. Needless to say, I did not enjoy this very much.