“Bad Monkey” with Vince Vaughn on Apple TV +: Cool detective

2024-08-13 15:31:20

In the satirical crime series “Bad Monkey” based on the best seller by Carl Hiaasen, Vince Vaughn goes through pretty much all the stages of humiliation of the male gender. And as a “Creepy Detective Hybrid” it gets a surprising amount of respect. Is this still a culture war?

In Florida the clocks are different. At the end of the eighties people here fight more with sunglasses and just go find a cocktail. At any moment, Don Johnson can turn the corner as he did in “Miami Vice”; and you can even experience a Hemingway remake while deep-water fishing.

In Florida they give the finger to time, so to speak, and in “Bad Monkey”, a ten-part satirical crime series based on the novel of the same name by Carl Hiaasen, this is known to you directly: Instead of a fish, it is an angler is a hairy human arm on the hook – and As rigor mortis will have it, the middle finger sticks out. A shark? A murder? A final act of resistance against the shame of gender?

The fact that Vince Vaughn, who recently complained about the squeamishness of modern comedies, will play the leading role in the idea of ​​the latter – as the deep voice of the overvoice, which still sounds so beautiful like Raymond Chandler. And in fact, Andrew Yancy, whom Vaughn plays with some enthusiasm, is a tough old detective, although the progress of civilization has softened him a little.

With dead raccoons against gentrification

Her lover, it turns out, is connected with a young man, and since her husband, who is four times her age, has been gone, Yancy has been freed from the trappings of his manhood: a gun, a police badge and even. company car. Since then, he has been cycling around the Florida Keys as a food inspector. Of all things, the broken arm can help him become a real policeman and a whole man again.

The fact that a forensic psychologist in Miami (Natalie Martinez) likes him seems to be the first step in the right direction. The fact that the widow is suspected of having an arm (and all other missing parts) indicates, despite all the satire, a real case. As with Carl Hiaasen’s 2013 start, it also applies to its serialization of humor and suspense are not a contradiction and that crime and social satire definitely get along. Vince Vaughn manages to be one-third hero and two-thirds touchingly ridiculous. A young witness with an “Ok, Boomer” expression submissively saved him in his contacts as “Alien Detective Hybrid”.

In Florida, 99 percent of the population may need a new hip, according to a surgeon, but the “Bad Monkey” also knows that the Sunshine State is the last refuge for removalists. The geeks have taken over San Francisco, but in Carl Hiaasen’s Keys, real estate developers are still at war with stinking raccoon carcasses and scavengers are driven away with horror stories. In the tiring cultural war, the lively “Bad Monkey” can easily be an offer of reconciliation.

“Bad Monkey” airs from August 14th Apple TV+after two opening events each week.