We’re three episodes in, so it’s time to talk about the monkey. Neville’s constant companion, Driggs, is a little scavenger, for sure, but the title of the show makes him out to be so much worse than he really is. Did anyone else think that the title of this show suggested that we might get an actual evil monkey in the thick of the plot? (Raises hand slowly.
) That doesn’t seem to be what’s happening, and as an animal lover, I’m relieved. Driggs’s tiny paw prints and little diapered bum are all over this episode, and we get the sense that he’s honestly not that bad! This week, he gets side-eyed by Yancy for eating grapes while being a monkey, Christopher blindly shoots at him for trespassing, and we see his caring owner, Neville, callously trade him away like a handful of chips in a poker game. It’s starting to feel like Driggs isn’t a bad monkey, but he might just be hanging around some bad humans.
All right, Neville and Yancy aren’t bad ...
at least they’re not all bad. Even though Yancy objects to “the monkey of it all” as he inspects Neville’s sister’s kitchen, he doesn’t write her up because he waits to hear Neville make his case: He has the moral high ground at the moment with his sister, and he doesn’t want to lose it. This is something Yancy can relate to, so he says he’ll come back in a day or so.
In exchange, Neville tells Yancy that he “owes him one,” which seems like something that will certainly come up in the near future..