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Review: If you loved 'Monk,' Peacock's new movie is a welcome return

Tony Shalhoub in “Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie.”

Tony Shalhoub, whose credits are many and , has taken his Adrian Monk (brown) suit out of mothballs after 14 years for "Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie," premiering Friday on Peacock. For those new to the story, told across eight seasons of the comedy procedural Monk was a San Francisco consulting police detective whose distinguishing characteristic was a full slate of OCD symptoms and every sort of phobia the writers felt it convenient or funny to give him; these were exacerbated by a nervous breakdown after the

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