Putting Vince Vaughn in a detective series, after True Detective, can only make us laugh. Thank goodness that’s the case with Bad Monkey, the new Apple TV Plus series that arrived at a great time with little competition. With a fun pace, with great performances, it’s even possible to appreciate the non-linear narrative. It will eventually work to connect all the stories.

What did he not know he knew and who else knew?

There’s a combination in Hollywood when it wants to tell crime stories: in Miami, they come with humor and a lot of confusion. There are more reasons than just prejudice; statistically, crimes in Florida tend to have connections with foreigners and even illegal immigrants, so not all of them are solved. It remains to be seen if Bad Monkey will be one of them.

The adaptation of the 2013 book, written by Carl Hiaasen, is written by Bill Lawrence (Scrubs and Ted Lasso) and brings together a great cast led by Vince Vaughn as Detective Andrew Yancy, currently assigned to the Keys police force, near Miami, but always getting into trouble and therefore temporarily removed from his duties.

This doesn’t stop him from inadvertently getting involved in a great murder mystery when a tourist fishes up a human arm and he starts trying to identify who the limb belongs to and what happened. Soon, other deaths and attempted murders follow and Yancy realizes that he “knows something that he doesn’t know he knows”. And as the narrator adds: the real problem is that “he doesn’t know what he knows and who else knows”. I swear, it’s hilarious.

Since we’re on the outside, we can piece it together a little better for him: there’s a big real estate scam in the Bahamas, and the investments – not exactly “clean” – are the basis for the mysterious murders. In this way, the Bahamian fisherman, Neville Stafford (Ronald Peet) is connected to Yancy, without knowing that he knows something and we stop for now in the second episode wanting to find out even more.

There will be 10 episodes in total, so we can expect more. The beginning is promising! No big twists, but a fun game of cat and mouse between Yancy and his targets.

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