Pity poor Florida: hurricanes, alligators, drug lords, strip malls, scammers. But Floridians also have Carl Hiaasen, the former Miami Herald reporter who has spun the eccentricities of his home state into a dozen and a half beloved comic crime novels. Now Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of Ted Lasso, has adapted Hiaasen’s novel Bad Monkey into a 10-part Apple TV+ series starring Vince Vaughn, Rob Delaney, and Natalie Martinez, plus lots of shots of glowing Gulf sunsets. Is the series groundbreaking or even especially interesting? Not really. Is it entertaining? Definitely.

Maybe this is also the beginning of a Vince Vaughn-aissance. Best known in the aughts for playing self-absorbed cads in broad comedies such as Old School (2003) and Wedding Crashers (2005), Vaughn did a grittier turn as a criminal on True Detective’s polarizing second season. As far as crime procedurals go, Bad Monkey’s wisecracking protagonist seems like a more natural fit for Vaughn’s vein of garrulous smart-dumb guys.