Pick of the week
Bad Monkey
An entertaining comedy drama adapted from Carl Hiaasen’s 2013 novel about detective turned hotel inspector Andrew Yancy (Vince Vaughn) – dismissed from the Miami Police Department but dragged back into the vague vicinity of law enforcement by the discovery of a severed arm on a fishing trip. A parallel tale about Bahamian beach bum Neville Stafford (Ronald Peet) and his attempts to save his ramshackle home from property developers eventually dovetails with the main storyline but narrative thrust isn’t really the point here: the strength is its picaresque, rambling, slightly stonerish vibe. It’s dryly funny and Vaughn is great as the strangely indefatigable Yancy.
Apple TV+, Wednesday 14 August
