I started watching Bad Monkey, the latest Apple TV+ series, one of the funnier things on offer this year, for two reasons. First, I like Vince Vaughn a lot. He was clever in his 2000s persona in comedies with Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson: Old School (2003), Dodgeball (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005). He was manly, indeed scary, in the 2010s, in Nic Pizzolatto’s remarkable True Detective season 2 (2015) and the S. Craig Zahler movies Brawl in Cell Block 99(2017) and Dragged Across Concrete (2018), with Mel Gibson. Secondly, as my faithful readers at RLO know, I keep an eye on developments in pop culture, since they showcase the ongoing mental breakdown of our taste-making elites and their audiences.
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