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The good, the ‘Bad’ and the ‘Monkey’: Apple TV+ heads to Florida Keys for tropical mystery series BY DANA SIMPSON Flush with unique natural wonders, expansive beaches and endless activities to indulge in, Florida has always been a grand attraction for characters of all kinds. Now, the Sunshine State makes up the setting of Apple TV+’s newest series, “Bad Monkey.” Releasing its first two episodes Wednesday, Aug. 14, on the Apple-owned streamer, “Bad Monkey” stars Vince Vaughn (“Wedding Crashers,” 2005) as Andrew Yancy, a former Miami Police detective who has been ousted from the force due to a domestic assault. Now forced to gain employment as a health inspector for the Department of Hotels and Restaurants in the Florida Keys, Yancy’s life takes a turn when a tourist in the area pulls part of a human body from the water while fishing. Faced with the gruesome discovery, Yancy struggles to leave his detective days behind him and let the police handle the matter. Instead, he finds himself getting “pulled into a world of greed and corruption” (per Apple TV+). “And yes,” adds the Apple TV+ description, “there’s a monkey.” Based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Carl Hiaasen, “Bad Monkey” has been in the works since August 2021,
when Warner Bros. first announced the project. Written, executive produced and co-created by “Ted Lasso” and “Shrinking” producer Bill Lawrence and his Doozer Productions, the crime dramedy is set two contain 10 episodes, to be released weekly after the double-episode premiere on Aug. 14. Following the series announcement and report that Vaughn would star in the leading role, news broke in December 2021 that supporting cast members were added in the form of Michelle Monaghan (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” 2005), Jodie Turner-Smith (“Queen & Slim,” 2019) and Meredith Hagner (“Search Party”). Recurring “Saturday Night Live” cast member Alex Moffat was later added to the series in early 2022 as Evan Shook, “an obnoxious real estate developer from Maryland ... who has bought the land next door to Andrew Yancy on a secluded promontory in Big Pine Key and is in the process of developing a hideous spec house that’s an affront to Yancy’s environmentalist sensibilities” (per the Hollywood Reporter). “Yancy makes it his mission to scuttle Shook’s plans,” writes Hollywood Reporter journalist Rick Porter, “creating one problem after another for Shook as he desperately tries to find a
buyer for his McMansion.” Monaghan, for her part, is cast as Bonnie Witt, Yancy’s love interest and the wife of a well-off Key West dermatologist. In the novel, Witt is portrayed as a woman of questionable morals who was forced to leave her job as an Oklahoma school teacher and change her name (from Plover Chase) following an illicit affair with one of her students. Turner-Smith, meanwhile, stars as a voodoo practitioner known as the “Dragon Queen,” while Hagner portrays Eve Stripling, the widow of the presumed deceased, Nicholas Stripling. Native Floridian Tom Nowicki (“Remember the Titans,” 2000) serves as the narrator of the series, while additional roles in “Bad Monkey” are held by L. Scott Caldwell (“Lost”), Rob Delaney (“Catastrophe”), Natalie Martinez (“Ordinary Joe”), Ronald Peet (“Dicktown”), John Ortiz (“Silver Linings Playbook,” 2012), Scott Glenn (“The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991), Zach Braff (“Scrubs”) and, of course, Crystal the Monkey (“The Hangover Part II,” 2011) as Driggs.
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