There are femme fatales, drive-by shootings and plenty of sticking it to the man in this pulpy comedy-mystery. Its beautiful Florida location will make you yearn for a holiday
ost Apple TV+ shows are cut from the same plain cloth. They tend to have massive budgets, A-list actors and competent storytelling, but, with a handful of exceptions they also tend to be relatively forgettable. Fine, entertaining even, but somehow flimsy and fleeting, too. Like the electronic products that made the company’s fortune, it’s all smooth lines and clean corners, which is good for laptops and phones. But when it comes to TV, Apple’s output has often erred on the side of caution.
But the calm waters of his life are interrupted when a severed arm arrives on his doorstep. It was pulled out of the Keys by a honeymooner chartering a fishing boat, who got more than the marlin he was banking on. Yancy’s ex-partner in policing, Rogelio , arrives with this unwanted gift. Nobody will take on the arm or the associated paperwork. The police don’t want it, the morgue doesn’t want it.
You know what they say about recently suspended cops: dangle a severed arm in front of them, and they’re like a dog with a collar bone. “To get his job back, all Yancy had to do was stay out of trouble,” says the narrator. Naturally, Yancy is drawn to the mystery like a moth to a limb-shaped flame.
Meanwhile, over in the Bahamas, Neville and his pet monkey Driggs – the bad monkey of the title – are similarly laid-back types, and their easy life is about to be bulldozed by the arrival of US property developers who want to raze Neville’s cottage and build a five-star resort in its place.
Bad Monkey was created by Scrubs and Ted Lasso creator Bill Lawrence, who is also behind Shrinking, another show which proves the theory that all the best Apple series must begin with an S. It is a decent, solid, largely amiable pulpy comedy-mystery, in which the underdog gets to fight back.
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