Adrian Monk is back and more miserable than ever in Peacock's first At-Home Variety Show short

Tony Shalhoub’s Adrian Monk (from Monk) is one of the sweetest, smartest, and most unfairly tortured TV characters in history, having spent years solving mysteries with the help of his friends and a certain gift/curse that makes him very good at spotting details that others miss while simultaneously making him utterly terrified of germs and dirt and other things that are unclean—and that’s all after his wife was murdered by Craig T. Nelson (spoiler alert). He lived a hard life on his TV show, facing his struggles with a begrudging warmth, and he earned a reprieve from some of his many anxieties in the series finale by bringing Craig T. Nelson (spoiler alert) to justice. Now who wants to see him struggling to keep his anxiety under control in the midst of the coronavirus? Doesn’t that sound like a blast? Well, here it is, courtesy of Peacock’s new At-Home Variety Show (which we just wrote about earlier today):