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Call It Tom Petty Noir
Behind its Corona-chill exterior, Florida caper Bad Monkey is impatient with bullshit.
Yancy is a close cousin of Trent Walker, the L.A. hipster Vaughn played in Swingers; Beanie Campbell, the ear-muffing father in Old School; and Jeremy Grey, the guy who snuck into various nuptial events in Wedding Crashers. A distrust of anyone who doesn’t show reverence for the natural world gurgles just beneath the surface of all that transpires in this series, and that’s especially true on Andros, where a young man named Neville (Ronald Peet) is struggling to hold onto the waterfront land he inherited from his father, even though there’s a strong chance it will be stolen from him by the builders of a fancy new resort. If that orange-dress line didn’t already tip you off, Bad Monkey is, like its source material, a work of Florida noir, where our sunburned anti-heroes wear flip-flops and feast on conch fritters, and red lights designed to protect baby turtles from wandering into dangerous territory cast a neon glow over the sand.
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