Since Monk goes on his first date (since his perfect slain wife died) he sounds like a nervous George McFly from Back to the Future, and for a filler episode it's not bad. Judge Reinhold, everybody's dopey-cool big brother in the 1980's, plays a treehugger and Monk's date is gorgeous, but tires of him, of course, when in fact all he'd have to tell her is, I'm afraid of heights from the beginning of the date and that'd be it since she's so into him. Anyhow, for a filler episode it wasn't bad. A date from hell episode, and the title character is the hell here.
Review of Mr. Monk and the Blackout
