Okay, this is cool.
Y’know how bloggers will sometimes put updates welcoming visitors from other blogs who have linked them?
Well, my post on Sharona leaving Monk has been getting a ton of hits from Google. In fact, it’s the top page Google gives you if you type in "sharona leaves monk." Only problem was, it was written before we knew the on-screen explanation for why Sharona left.
So I just updated it with this:
UPDATE: Welcome Google visitors! More information has been revealed about the Sharona situation since the time this post was written. Basically, Sharona and her son, Benjy, moved back to the East Coast to reunite with her former husband. (This was not shown on screen but was talked about.) Subsequently, Monk hired a new assistant, a former bartender named Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard), who has a daughter. Thus far, Natalie seems to be doing as good a job at standing up to Monk as Sharona did, but we’ll always have a special place in our hearts for Sharona. Hopefully she’ll guest star in the future.
I discovered this site via a google search for Monk info..and as a Brit currently watching as far back as season 2, i’m gutted that Sharona is leaving, but pleased that we still have her to watch for many more shows yet (there are bonuses to being so far behind the U.S ..it took us longer to get McDonalds here too, another huge bonus IMO).
The fact that you had Monk info posted was pleasing, discovering that you are a Catholic earned you extra brownie points 🙂
God Bless.
I was upset watching the preview after this past Friday’s episode and seeing that next week is the season finale already! I hope that season 4 is not too far off.
Andy
I still can’t bring myself to watch it this season. And her husband is such a louse that I’d only want her reunited with him if he were…hmm…suffering from a terminal illness. A quick one. Because we all saw what happened last time when he tried to sucker Sharona into reuniting with him.
And to be frank, I was getting fed up with the increasing amount of meaningless solo Monk slapstick (or as I called it, “Oh, look, time to change the channel for five minutes”). I’d rather pretend the series is over than watch it die slowly.