Monk - Season Two

Product Description Television's favorite defective detective returns to DVD to solve a new batch of baffling mysteries with his trademark wit, wisdom… and hand wipes. Join Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Tony Shalhoub as the quirky obsessive-compulsive detective in all 16 brilliantly funny Second Season episodes of the widely acclaimed series, Monk. His extensive dossier of phobias may keep him from working on the police force, but Monk's not about to let that stop him from solving crimes. Accompanied by his loyal (and infinitely patient) assistant Sharona (Bitty Schram), by-the-book Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) and eager-to-please Lieutenant Randall Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), Monk's unconventional methods may just be what's needed to crack some of San Francisco's most puzzling and unusual cases. Join "TV's most original sleuth ever" (Los Angeles Times) on all of his suspenseful Second Season adventures in the series that USA Today raves is "hilarious" and Entertainment Weekly proclaims as one of the "Top 10 Best Things on TV." Bonus Content: Disc 1: The Minds Behind Monk Disc 2: Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford) Character Profile Disc 3: Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) Character Profile Disc 4: Precinct Tours with Jason-Gray Stanford Amazon.com Monk: Season Two finds the popular cable dramedy all the more satisfying and fun in its second year. Relationships between the series' core characters have (against all odds) actually deepened and sweetened, while the new whodunit storylines challenge obsessive-compulsive investigator hero Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) in fresh and novel ways. There are no big changes, but there is more compassion, even friendship, exchanged between Monk and his former boss, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), and grudging admiration for the difficult private sleuth from Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford). As for Monk's crucial bond with his long-suffering assistant, Sharona (Bitty Schram), well, nothing comes easier than before. On the other hand, Sharona continues to draw Monk out of his self-obsession by giving him someone to care about. Highlights include the strong season opener, "Mr. Monk Goes Back to School," starring Andrew McCarthy as a science teacher whom Monk instantly suspects of killing a colleague. (The latter's death was disguised as a suicide.) Monk's