{"id":7467,"date":"2020-01-29T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2020-01-20T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:37:51","slug":"mark-watches-monster-episode-43-detective-suk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2020\/01\/mark-watches-monster-episode-43-detective-suk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Monster’: Episode 43 – Detective Suk"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the forty-third episode of Monster<\/i>, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know where this was going, AND THEN I DID. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Monster<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, the narrative just switched to focus on an entirely new character, ignoring Grimmer, guess what? I STILL WASN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T READY!!! Still! Because Detective Suk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective here is so odd, a tonal change from the mystery of Grimmer. Over the course of the episode titled after him, his entire world comes crashing down around him.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the most part, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d argue that Detective Suk isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just inexperienced as a detective; he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painfully na\u00c3\u00afve at times, too. That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand his reaction to finding his mentor dead; there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a layer to this episode that also works as a condemnation of a lot of this culture. Because at every step of the way, Suk is trying<\/i>. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trying to make his mentor proud while also hoping he can solve his murder. But he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a whole lot of foresight, does he? He will just talk to anyone<\/i> who will listen to him, which at times includes the actual murderer of Inspector Zeman! He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so damn messy<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is the point, I imagine. In this tragedy, Suk stumbles from one bad decision to another, desperate for the approval of peers and willing to do almost anything to get it. Prior to this, he idolized Inspector Zeman, and so, Zeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death sends him into a spiral. He can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to find his footing, and him losing his meal after seeing Zeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body certainly didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help. The other detectives don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see Suk as someone to look to for guidance because Suk needs so much of it himself. However, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even say that<\/i> without bringing in some context that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s given to us later. How many of these officers were part of the old Czecholovakian police? How many of them refuse to get close to Suk or to trust him because<\/i> he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not in their inner circle?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I say that because once you know how complicated this is, it makes the earlier scenes messed up, too. Suk completely misses the fact that he was told that there was an internal investigation into the allegiances of other officers. But so many of them are in on it, and the evidence that Suk does<\/i> uncover heavily suggests that Zeman was being bribed to keep the information to himself. Until Suk makes that discovery\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich is entirely by accident, by the way!\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe sees Zeman as his own personal hero, as someone to emulated and adored. Ironically, Zeman had already broken his own moral code, and Suk had no idea. So what happens when your world starts falling apart?<\/p>\n

Apparently, Suk thinks talking to a random stranger who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know their own name is a good idea. Granted, as I mentioned before, Suk just talks to anyone<\/i>. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, he went straight to the Director\/Commissioner once he discovered the book\/money in Zeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s locker. He literally identified himself as having found the truth to someone else INVOLVED IN THE CONSPIRACY. If it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all so tragic, it would be comical! Again, Suk is na\u00c3\u00afve as hell, and he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think through the ramifications of his actions here. He just reacts<\/i>. Unfortunately, this is probably going to be bad? Real bad? Because again, I have no idea who this mysterious woman is, what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing, or why she looks so much like Nina. Is there another sibling I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about??? That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even make sense. But what I mean by this is that Suk has found an affinity of sorts in someone who is slowly picking off members of this police force. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t suspect her even a little<\/i> bit, and she murders AGAIN in this episode, but not after revealing some things that link her to Johan. So, maybe she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s from the same place? Because that whole Cedok Bridge thing, and the Three Frogs Bar thing, AND THE POISONING BY CANDY THING\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit all points to something more than a coincidence.<\/p>\n

But why these<\/i> people? What does she have against them? Why did she protect and spare Grimmer? What does she have against these ex-special police officers? Does she empathize with Suk because she also thinks it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrong for these people to be exploiting their uniforms for personal gain? I LITERALLY DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m asking these questions to try and make sense of this all. But now, three more<\/i> people are dead, Suk has no clue what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gotten into, and DR. TENMA FINALLY ARRIVED IN TOWN. Oh, shit<\/i>. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on! They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all convening in one place again!!! But what is Tenma going to discover here? Does he even know what to look for?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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