Pilot

I always feel like I need to comment on the pilot to these series. They all have the same shortcomings. Since this is a sort of comedy/drama we need to be introduced to some wackadoodle plot contrivance. This one has a man who has become known in the FBI as the master of solving white collar crime. He is genial and kind and productive. He is supposedly tenacious. So when the guy whom he spent years hunting down escapes, he lets this guy become his partner because he is a master criminal. And so this apparently goes on for years. I'lll check this one out occasionally but I'm afraid I've just about lost interest already. Make this hardnosed and I would buy it, but the young guy is too much. I won't go into how he gets a place to live but it is ridiculous.

For a show with one of the dullest titles ever created, WC's pilot sparkled, at least in parts. A veteran FBI agent snags his man, a petty thief and con artist. Instead of having the poor guy rot in jail, the agent puts him to work on a case involving an elusive criminal nicknamed Snow White. The agent and con artist have some very lively dialog between them, which makes up for some of the slower scenes. The agent's wife is played by a familiar TV face fro the past, Tiffany Thiessen, and the con artists's new landlady is played by Dihann Carroll. In a few short weeks, MONK will be gone for good. I imagine USA is banking considerably on the success of this show. If the pilot is any indication, I suspect it will work out just fine.