“Andy jumped on that idea and folded Monk’s experience with a pandemic into the main plot.” The new movie, written by Breckman, finds Monk, who at the end of the USA series finally solved ...

A sprawling web of western influence arises in The Monk and the Gun, Pawo Choyning Dorji’s political satire set in 2006, against the backdrop of Bhutan’s first-ever democratic election.

The idea to reopen the series with a movie continuation 15 years ... especially by including a plot in which the beloved detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) contemplates taking his own life.