Based on a 2013 novel by Carl Hiaasen, this humorous 10-part crime thriller on Apple TV+ breezes along with a fantastic cast Vince Vaughn in 'Bad Monkey'. Photo: Apple TV+ Vince Vaughn and Natalie Martinez in 'Bad Monkey'. Photo: Apple TV+ Meredith Hagner and Rob Delaney in 'Bad Monkey'.
Photo: Apple TV+ It’s fashionable to dismiss Vince Vaughn. Even if you can overlook those awful fratboy comedies he made (and for a long time he seemed to make little else), there’s the thorny issue of his politics. In contrast to Democrat-voting stars like George Clooney and Robert De Niro, Vaughn is an outspoken libertarian.
He supported right-wing Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul in the 2008 and 2012 elections, and his even more right-wing son Rand Paul in 2016. He’s opposed to gun control, supports carrying firearms in public and has called for guns in schools. But if you can hold your nose and look past all this — and paying audiences have been doing just that for decades with Hollywood’s most famous libertarian, Clint Eastwood — Vaughn, when given the right material, can be excellent.
He was outstanding in the criminally underrated second season of True Detective, which most critics hammered for daring to do something different from its predecessor, and hilarious in Freaky, a horror spin on Freaky Friday, playing a terrifying serial killer who swaps bodies with a teenage girl. Bad Monkey — Official Trailer Ten-part humorous crime thriller Bad Monkey (Apple TV+.