Great Entertainment at a Great Price
This boxset is such a bargain - at this price for 5 seasons who can complain?
As a series it is very entertaining with some interesting characters that you become familiar with during the 5 seasons, Monk's detective genius coupled with/ hampered by his obsessive disorder makes for a believable character. I personally wasn't aware of poor picture quality when I watched this but then perhaps the more discerning who have something to compare this series with are able to make a more critical judgement....
In short: a very enjoyable series....and season 6 is out !

Great value
For the price this is excellent value. There were things I'd have liked to see done differently... like all the episodes cropped the same way, and maybe some description of episodes, but for the price you can't complain. Probably the funniest thing was watching the episodes in French though... The woman who dubbed Sharona has such a posh voice I nearly cried with laughter whenever her lines came up!

Great Show...and yes, terrible Box Set!!!
Aside the fact that the dvd's are plain and the formats are all different depending on the season, there are ZERO subtitles!!! But the show is fabulous.... Pity...

Economic, Quality Entertainment
Monk is a terrific show about Adrian Monk, A former detective, turned consultant after the death of his wife Trudy. He has a bad case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and from the start of the series one hes coming out of his house more often with the help of his assistant Sharona. Hes solving crime after crime for the San Fransisco Police Department using his "unique talents." Hey it's a blessing and a curse!

The show itself is great. However lets just chalk up the differences between this and getting the show individually on DVD. For a start your saving alot of money. Buying series 1-5 costs almost £78. So take the pride your watching a terrific show for a mere cost of what its worth.

On the bad scope of things however there are some differences and if your willing to bare them this set will be great for you. the disc set themselves come in on quite sturdy cases which are black. (They also are finger-print magnets!) Another thing is theres no really clear identification on which series is which but all that requires is the opening of the case which is hardly taxing. The last point is that there are no episode guides. Although on the back of the box it does have an episode list in very small writing. It may also interest people that the DVD's are in a 4:3 ratio.

In conclusion your saving a fair wad of cash buying this set. (That being especially true if you bought them elsewhere.) The quality of the show is excellent and the discs are 100% the same as the singular counterparts. Although if you really need the things like episode guides and artwork on the casing this isn't the set for you.

Spoiled by 4:3 cropping
If you're reading this you probably already know how good Monk is as a series. One doesn't have to be Monk to be obsessive about some things, and two things I am obsessive about are picture quality and aspect ratio. The picture quality on these DVDs is very good although somewhat grainy, possibly due to the series being shot on film rather than digital. However, the box is spoiled by the fact that seasons 1 to 3 are presented in a 4:3 aspect ratio instead of 16:9 which the show was made in. I can see no reason why three of five seasons would have been cropped to 4:3 while the final two are correct. So if you care about this kind of thing, avoid this box. I really wish this information was consistently specified in the product listing at Amazon instead of useless information such as 'Studio' or 'Run Time'.

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