Bad Monkey Season 2: Key Info
– Officially renewed in December 2024
– Production began in November 2025
– No trailer has been released yet
– The main cast is expected to return
– More announcements about new cast members, including John Malkovich
– Season 2 will reportedly follow Carl Hiaasen’s novel, Shaver girl
– Showrunner Bill Lawrence hopes for future seasons
Bad monkey season 2 is officially in production, and that’s very exciting news for one of the best Apple TV shows. IN Bad monkeyVince Vaughn stars as Andrew Yancy, a former Miami PD officer turned Florida health inspector. Well, until a human arm shows up. Then Yancy is led back into a wild world of crime, unusual characters and a touch of magical ambiguity.
Here’s everything we know so far about it Bad monkey season 2 release date prediction, cast confirmed, plot rumors and more.
Potential spoilers follow 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, bringing us one step closer. After Apple TV announced the show’s renewal in December 2024, it has taken just under a year to begin filming.
And while Florida is at the heart of this show, production has reportedly moved to California for Season 2, with a $20.6 million tax incentive in the state, as revealed by Variety.
If I had to predict a release date, I’d say hopefully we’ll see Bad monkey return to our screens in late 2026, early 2027. After all, the keys are calling.
Is there a Bad Monkey season 2 trailer yet?
Since the cast and crew began filming in November, it’s no surprise that there are none Bad monkey season 2 trailer to share yet. As is often the case, trailers drop about a month or so before the show premieres. So it’s unlikely we’ll get a trailer anytime soon.
Bad Monkey Season 2 Cast Confirmed
Full spoilers follow Bad monkey season 1.
It looks like most of it Bad monkey The season 2 cast is confirmed to reprise their roles, as well as lots of 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
- Xavior Phillips as Eddie
- Sam Jaeger as TBC
- Nate Jackson as TBC
- Brent Morin as TBC
- Peter Billingsley as TBC
- June Diane Raphael as TBC
In August, John Malkovich joined the cast as a series regular for season 2, with Deadline reporting that he will play Spencer, “the leader of a major criminal organization in South Florida.”
Then, in September, Yvonne Strahovski signed on to play the County State Attorney (per Deadline) and Zavior Phillips as Eddie: “a CPA who investigates financial crimes” (per Black).
In October, Deadline reported that Sam Jaeger would star in a recurring role, followed quickly by news that Nate Jackson would also join (per Deadline).
And finally, in November, Brent Morin, Peter Billingsley, and June Diane Raphael were all cast (per Deadline). However, unlike the other three, these final five characters’ details 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 who’s still alive that people responded to, we’re going to figure out a way for them to exist in our world — or at least cross over.”
Which is good news for anyone wondering if Bonnie (Michelle Monaghan), Yancy’s father (Scott Glenn) or narrator Tom Nowicki will return. No confirmed news about their roles yet, but there is hope.
Bad Monkey season 2 potential plot synopsis and rumors
Major spoilers follow 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, tying up Yancy’s case with a neat Floridian 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 met her own death by choking on a baby carrot and falling to her death from a building.
But that certainly wasn’t the end of Yancy’s murder-solving antics in Florida, as Rogelio approached him in the closing scenes to take on a brand new case, telling him he had something “not strictly police” that he wanted him to look into.
So where does that leave us Bad monkey season 2? Well, while Season 1 was based on Carl Hiaasen’s novel of the same name, Deadline confirmed that Season 2 will “tell a new original story.” Although Lawrence has expressed that he chose Bad monkey because it was the only one Hiaasen has written a sequel to, called Shaver girl.
But there have been hints. Speaking to Deadline, he said: “And if you see the opening credits, the sand thing – nobody’s seen it yet – there’s a couple of things, like a beach ball, and if people pause it when they’re walking by a beach chair, there’s a copy of that book, like a summer read, sitting there. That will tell people what’s next.”
It’s worth a look Shaver girl synopsis then, which reads: “Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnapping for the mob. Her preferred method is to return to her targets and ask them for a ride. Her latest mark is Martin Trebeaux, owner of a private beach restoration company that has supplied substandard sand to a mob hotel.
“But there’s just one problem: Razor Girl hits on the wrong guy. Instead, she ends up with Lane Coolman, talent manager for Buck Nance, star of a reality TV show about a family of Cajun rooster farmers. Buck Nance, left to perform stand-up at a Key West bar without his handler, makes enough off-color jokes to incite a fight for his life and then disappears.”
We know there are plenty of new characters joining the cast in Season 2, 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 are also returning characters from Season 1, of course like Rosa, who broke up with Yancy in the finale and quit her job, which felt 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-life daughter. With Nick now sleeping with the fishes, it carves out a whole new place for Caitlin. How any of these characters will weave back into Season 2 is anyone’s guess.
Will Bad Monkey get more seasons on Apple TV?
There is no official news about Bad monkey season 3 – and I imagine there won’t be for some time. While Season 1’s renewal may have been delayed by the show’s move, at least it came after the show premiered on Apple TV. So for a potential season 3, we need at least a season 2.
But it seems Lawrence is eager to continue. After all, when Lawrence pitched it to Apple TV, he told The Hollywood Reporter, “I had a beginning, middle and end to a three-season arc for this character and who he wanted to be and where he wanted to get to — and they were really receptive to that.”
Does a three-season arc need a third book from Hiaasen, though? Speaking to Deadline, he said it depends on whether Hiaasen writes another novel: “There’s no third book written, but the joke for me is to either push Carl to write one or take one of his old ones and make Yancy the lead.
“It’s so much easier when you’re using great source material and the guy is really good, he’s a classic American satirist and a good guy too.”
Whenever there is any official news about renewal, we will update them here.
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