monkeyshines

“Veep” is a certified great comedy, but it’s one thing to create a show about Washington monkeyshines using original characters in original stories and another to make it with some necessary regard for real events and people, especially when, in Hunt’s case, their life was touched with tragedy.

No monkeyshines this time, no funny faces.

“They sit on an arm of a chair, they stretch out their legs, they rest one leg on the thigh of another, they flip their cigarette ashes on the floor, etc. Their aim is to impress the men that they are hard, efficient—no fluff, no monkeyshines.”

But wait, there's yet another “taste community” rallying to “Ozark,” said Yellin: fans of the 2015 film “The Big Short,” which deals with Wall Street dirty tricks, have been found to respond to the money monkeyshines that animate “Ozark.”

It leaves us with the indelible image of a man in a walrus suit, but it’s really something much slighter: monkeyshines dressed up like a movie.