Florida’s most dangerous restaurant inspector is back. Vince Vaughn returns as Andrew Yancy in a new season of Apple TV’s Bad Monkey, two years after the series first premiered. The crime comedy series will debut its second season next month, and just released its first trailer, which depicts Yancy in more trouble than ever.
The first season of the series followed Yancy, a Key West police detective who was busted down to restaurant inspector, as he became entangled in a complex murder plot after being asked to transport a severed human arm. Teaming with medical examiner Rosa Campesino (Natalie Martinez) and his old partner Rogelio (John Ortiz), he comes to the aid of Caitlin (Charlotte Lawrence) to find out the true fate of the man the arm belonged to, getting him mixed up with land developers, Obeah practitioners, and a really bad monkey.
Now, in season 2, it looks like Yancy might get his badge back. The bad news is that he’s going to have to take down criminal mastermind Spencer Donovan (John Malkovich) to get it. As one can imagine, things don’t go smoothly for the hapless Yancy, as he soon finds himself entirely over his head. Now he’s got a new partner, an assassin on his tail, and a nasty feud with a rat relocation expert. The new season also features Yvonne Strahovski, Zavior Phillips, Nate Jackson, Sofia Boutella, Brent Morin, Joey Avery, Dax Shepard, Sam Jaeger, Margarita Levieva, Peter Billingsley, and June Diane Raphael. And yes, the monkey is back, too. The new season premieres exclusively on Apple TV on December 2.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Detective Should Solve Your Case? Columbo · Benoit Blanc · Jessica Fletcher · Marlowe
Answer eight quick questions and we will tell you who should be assigned to your murder. Four of the most famous detectives ever put on screen, and four completely different ways of getting somebody to admit what they did.
🕵Columbo(Columbo)
🧣Benoit Blanc(Knives Out)
🖨Jessica Fletcher(Murder, She Wrote)
🚬Philip Marlowe(The Big Sleep)
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What do people assume about you when they meet you? Pick the one that sounds most like you.
02
Pick a coat. No wrong answers here.
03
How do you get information out of people? One answer only.
04
How would your friends describe you? Be honest.
05
Pick a drink. Pick the closest answer.
06
Where do you do your best thinking? Pick the closest answer.
07
What is your car like? Think about the one on your drive.
08
What makes you good at reading people? Last one. This is the one that decides it.
The Case Is Assigned Your Detective Is…
A great detective is really just a personality with a method attached,
which is why we keep remaking the same four of them. Here is yours, what it says about you, and the
case for them being the best in the business.
Peter Falk · Columbo · 1968 to 2003
Columbo
You let people think you are not a threat and then you simply
never go away. Columbo is the only major detective show that tells you who did it in the
first ten minutes, because the pleasure was never the puzzle, it was watching a rich man
slowly realise he is in trouble.
You are underestimated constantly, and you have stopped minding because it keeps
working.
The show invented the inverted detective format for television and nobody has bettered
it since.
Peter Falk won four Emmys for the part and played him across five decades.
Your flaw is that one more question is rarely one more question.
Daniel Craig · Knives Out · 2019 to now
Benoit Blanc
You are the most interesting person in the room and you know
exactly how to use it. Rian Johnson built Blanc as a gentleman detective who is also an
outsider everywhere he goes, which lets him be charming at people who would never otherwise
talk to him.
You read a room in seconds and you are not above performing a little to speed things up.
Rian Johnson was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Knives Out in
2020.
Wake Up Dead Man arrived on Netflix in December, making three Blanc films in six years.
Your risk is enjoying the performance so much that people stop taking the point
seriously.
Angela Lansbury · Murder, She Wrote · 1984 to 1996
Jessica Fletcher
Everybody tells you everything, and you have never once asked
them to. Jessica Fletcher is a crime novelist from a small town in Maine who is so warm and
so obviously trustworthy that suspects confess to her essentially as a social courtesy.
You are the person friends call first, and you have a frankly alarming amount of
information about everybody.
Angela Lansbury was nominated for the Emmy twelve times for this role and never won
once.
The show ran twelve seasons, and Jamie Lee Curtis is now bringing the character back.
Your flaw is that being told everything is only a gift if you know what to do with it.
Raymond Chandler · The Big Sleep · 1939
Philip Marlowe
You expect to be lied to and you are almost never disappointed.
Chandler wrote Marlowe as a man with a rigid private code in a city that has none, which is
why he takes the case, solves it, gets nothing out of it and takes the next one.
You are the most cynical person your friends know and the one they would call at four in
the morning.
Bogart played him in The Big Sleep in 1946 and the plot is famously impossible to
follow, which matters not at all.
Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and Liam Neeson have all taken the part, and every version
says something about its decade.
Your weakness is a code so strict that it mostly punishes the person holding it.
Who Are the Creators Behind ‘Bad Monkey’?
The first season of Bad Monkey was adapted from the 2013 novel of the same name by Carl Hiaasen (R.J. Decker); although Hiaasen published a sequel to Bad Monkey in 2016, Razor Girl, season 2 of Bad Monkey is not based on it. It is executive produced and showrun by Bill Lawrence (Scrubs), who also produces Shrinking for Apple TV. It is also executive produced by Vaughn, Hiaasen, Jeff Ingold, Matt Tarses, Liza Katzer, Adam Sztykiel, and Chris Downey.
Season 2 of Bad Monkey will premiere on Apple TV on December 2. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Release Date
August 13, 2024
Network
Apple TV
Directors
Marcos Siega, Colin Bucksey, Liz Friedlander, Erica Dunton
