Bad Monkey season 2: key information
– Officially renewed in December 2024
– Production started in November 2025
– No trailer has been released yet
– The main cast is expected to return
– Several new casting announcements, including John Malkovich
– Season 2 would follow Carl Hiaasen’s novel, Razor Girl
– Showrunner Bill Lawrence hopes for future seasons
Bad monkey season 2 is officially in production and it’s very exciting news for one of the best Apple TV shows. In Bad monkeyVince Vaughn begins as Andrew Yancy, a former Miami police cop turned Florida health inspector. Well, until a human arm appeared. Then Yancy is plunged back into a wild world of crime, unusual characters, and a touch of magical ambiguity.
Here’s everything we know so far Bad monkey season 2 release date, prediction, confirmed cast, plot rumors and more.
Potential spoilers follow for Bad monkey season 1.
Bad Monkey Season 2 Release Date
Bad monkey Season 2 may not have a release date yet, but it’s officially in production, which brings us even closer. After Apple TV announced the show’s renewal in December 2024, it took just under a year to begin filming.
And although Florida is the heart of this series, production has reportedly moved to California for season 2, with a $20.6 million tax incentive, as revealed by Variety.
If I had to predict a release date, I’d say we’ll hopefully see Bad monkey will return to our screens in late 2026, early 2027. The Keys are calling, after all.
Is there a trailer for Bad Monkey season 2 yet?
Given that the cast and crew began filming in November, it’s no surprise that there isn’t a movie. Bad monkey Season 2 trailer to share for now. As is often the case, the trailers are released about a month before the series premieres. So it’s unlikely we’ll get a trailer anytime soon.
Bad Monkey season 2 cast confirmed
Full spoilers follow for Bad monkey season 1.
It seems that most of Bad monkey The cast from Season 2 is confirmed to be reprising their roles, along with numerous new cast announcements:
- Vince Vaughn as Andrew Yancy
- Natalie Martinez as Rosa
- John Ortiz as Rogelio
- Charlotte Lawrence as Caitlin
- John Malkovich as Spencer
- Yvonne Strahovski as Delaney
- Zavior Phillips as Eddie
- Sam Jaeger as to be confirmed
- Nate Jackson as TBC
- Brent Morin as to be confirmed
- Peter Billingsley as TBC
- June Diane Raphael as to be confirmed
In August, John Malkovich joined the cast as a season 2 regular, and Deadline reports that he will play Spencer, “the leader of a major South Florida crime organization.”
Then, in September, Yvonne Strahovski signed on to play the county attorney (per Deadline) and Zavior Phillips as Eddie: “a CPA investigating financial crimes” (per Variety).
In October, Deadline announced that Sam Jaeger would be playing a recurring role, followed quickly by the news that Nate Jackson would also be joining (according to Deadline).
And finally, in November, Brent Morin, Peter Billingsley and June Diane Raphael were all cast (according to Deadline). But unlike the other three, the details of these final five characters have been kept under wraps.
As for the rest of the Season 1 cast, whose fates have yet to be announced for Season 2, Lawrence revealed to Deadline: “Anyone that’s still alive and people have responded to, we’re going to find a way for them to exist in our world — or at least navigate it.”
This is great news for anyone wondering if Bonnie (Michelle Monaghan), Yancy’s father (Scott Glenn), or narrator Tom Nowicki are set to return. No confirmed news on their roles yet, but there is hope.
Bad Monkey Season 2 Potential Plot Synopsis and Rumors
Major spoilers follow for Bad monkey season 1.
THE Bad monkey The season 1 finale was pretty intense to say the least. Not one, not two, but three characters met their end and tied up Yancy’s case with a nice Florida bow.
Gracie, aka the Dragon Queen, was murdered by Eve, who also pushed her wheelchair-bound husband, Nick, into the ocean to drown. But, in a twist of karmic fate, Eve then met her own demise when she choked on a baby carrot and fell off a building.
But that certainly wasn’t the end of Yancy’s Florida murder-solving antics, as Rogelio approached him in the final scenes to take on a brand new case, telling him he had something “that wasn’t strictly a police case” that he wanted him to look into.
So where does this leave us? Bad monkey season 2? Well, while Season 1 was based on Carl Hiaasen’s novel of the same name, Deadline has confirmed that Season 2 will “tell a new, original story.” Although Lawrence said he chose Bad monkey because it is the only one of which Hiaasen wrote a sequel, entitled Razor Girl.
But there were clues. Speaking to Deadline, he said: “And if you look at the opening credits, the sand thing – no one’s seen it yet – there’s a few things, like a beach ball, and if people pause it when they pass by a beach chair, there’s a copy of this book, like a summer read, laying there. That will tell people what’s next.”
It’s worth taking a look at Razor Girl The synopsis therefore reads: “Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnappings for the Mafia. Her preferred method is to stamp on her targets and ask them to take her away. Her latest mark is Martin Trebeaux, owner of a private beach renovation company who delivered substandard sand to a Mafia hotel.
“But there’s only one problem: Razor Girl hits the wrong guy. Instead, she ends up with Lane Coolman, art director for Buck Nance, the star of a reality TV show about a family of Cajun cock breeders. Buck Nance, gone to perform at a Key West bar without his master, makes enough inappropriate jokes to provoke a fight, then runs for his life and disappears.”
We know there are many new characters joining the season 2 cast, but none with those names (yet). So we’ll have to wait and see how closely the source material ties into the new season.
Among the new cast there are also returning characters from season 1, of course like Rosa who broke up with Yancy in the finale and quit her job, which seemed very… final. But she’s confirmed to be back, so we’ll have to see where the story takes her next.
And then there’s Caitlin, Nick’s daughter from season 1, who is actually showrunner Bill Lawrence’s real daughter. With Nick now sleeping with the fish, it creates a whole new place for Caitlin. However, no one knows how any of these characters will return in season 2.
Will Bad Monkey get more seasons on Apple TV?
There is no official news from Bad monkey season 3 – and I imagine there won’t be for a while. While the Season 1 renewal may have been delayed by the show’s move, it at least came after the series premiered on Apple TV. So, for a potential season 3, we need at least a season 2.
But it seems Lawrence wants to continue. After all, when Lawrence pitched him to Apple TV, he told the Hollywood Reporter, “I had a beginning, middle and end of a three-season arc for this character, and who he would be and where he would go — and they were really receptive to it.”
Does a three-season arc need a third Hiaasen book, though? Speaking to Deadline, he said it depends on whether or not Hiaasen writes another novel: “There’s no third book written, but the joke for me is either pressure Carl to write one or take one of his old ones and make Yancy the lead.
“It’s so much easier when you use an incredible source, and this guy is really good, he’s a classic American satirist and also a good guy.”
When there is official news of the renewal, we will update it here.
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