Bad Monkey Season 1's Ending Fumbled The Biggest Character Death Twist -
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00:00One big character death in the Bad Monkey Season 1 finale came at the wrong time, and
00:16it could have been so much more effective if it had been moved just a little bit.
00:20Bad Monkey Season 1's ending included more than one character death, but it arguably
00:24should have featured just one less.
00:26While the mass exit of several members of the Bad Monkey cast aligns with Carl Hyasson's
00:30literary source material, Apple TV Plus mishandled one specific moment when finishing the inaugural
00:35run of Vince Vaughn's dark comedy detective show.
00:38Although Bad Monkey is shot in Florida, the show is set in the Bahamas as well as the
00:42Sunshine State.
00:44As a result, the show's collection of brilliant characters spans and combines two different
00:48cultures, which makes the story even more compelling.
00:51Bad Monkey hasn't shied away from violence and gruesome injuries, and while most have
00:55been well-executed, one character's gory happened just slightly too late.
00:59Grace's finale death scene would have worked better in Bad Monkey Season 1, Episode 9's
01:04ending.
01:05The Dragon Queen should have met her end before the finale.
01:08Grace reclaiming her Dragon Queen moniker and facing off against Eve Stripling at the
01:12end of Bad Monkey Season 1, Episode 9, You Really Don't Want to Kill This Scrumptious
01:16Little Puppy, was the perfect opportunity for one of the women to meet their end.
01:21Unfortunately, the opening minutes of the finale, We're in the Memoramaking Business,
01:25reveal that it's Grace who the writers have chosen to kill off.
01:28The shocking moment sets the drama bar incredibly high, but We're in the Memoramaking Business
01:33fails to reach that level of shock again, which hurts the episode.
01:37Grace's death takes up the entirety of the finale's cold open.
01:40If We're in the Memoramaking Business had started after the title sequence, then the
01:44whole episode would have been more relevant to closing out the story.
01:48With the installment the way it is, the fall of the Dragon Queen feels more like unfinished
01:52business from the episode before that didn't quite fit in.
01:54Sure, it gave Episode 9 a brilliant cliffhanger, but Gracey being quite obviously murdered
01:59would have been equally effective as a stopping point, if not even better.
02:03The death of the Dragon Queen seemingly confirmed she had supernatural abilities.
02:08Gracey being aware of Egg's injury can only be explained by her boasting genuine powers.
02:13Bad Monkey Season 1 was incredibly ambiguous throughout about whether Grace's powers were
02:17genuine or whether she was just scamming people out of their hard-earned cash.
02:21However, her Spectral Farewell Tour provided the strongest piece of evidence yet that the
02:25Dragon Queen was not a phony.
02:27While two of her three visits could be argued to be hallucinations caused by her dying brain,
02:32Gracey's conversation with Egg is a little different.
02:34When the Dragon Queen speaks with Egg one last time, the stripling's hired muscle is
02:38nursing a gunshot wound to the leg given to him by Rosa in the previous episode.
02:42Since the injury, Egg and Gracey hadn't interacted, so she wouldn't know that Egg was hurt.
02:47If the exchange was entirely in Grace's mind, then Egg wouldn't have this wound at all,
02:51as she would have no reason to visualize such a specific deviation from her last memory
02:55of him.
02:56Unexpectedly, this makes it difficult to deny that Bad Monkey delves into the world of the
03:01supernatural.