‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ trailer: Jon Hamm returns as a series television lead for the first time since ‘Mad Men’
Emmy Award winner Jon Hamm is back in the drama space for the first time since Mad Men. The erstwhile Don Draper actor, a double Emmy Award nominee last year for his supporting performances on Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show and FX limited series Fargo, stars on the new Apple TV+ drama series Your Friends and Neighbors. It marks Hamm’s first lead drama role on television since the end of Mad Men.
In the show, Hamm plays Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a hedge fund manager fired in disgrace who is still grappling with his recent divorce. Pushed to the brink and with a dwindling savings account, Coop resorts to stealing from his neighbors' homes in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.
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Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt, and Donovan Colan star alongside Hamm. Corbin Bernsen is a guest star.
“I was watching people’s lifestyles and value systems evolve in real-time, and it just seemed to me it couldn’t possibly be a sustainable way of life,” showrunner and writer Jonathan Tropper (Banshee, This Is Where I Leave You) told Entertainment Weekly in an interview about the show. “Every few years the bubble would burst and the fragility of the entire scaffolding would become briefly visible — the notion that all of it could be lost in a heartbeat.”
Tropper added that Your Friends and Neighbors is ultimately about the “lengths someone might go to maintain his wealth and status, even if it means breaking all the unwritten rules. There’s this unconscious systemic belief that once you climb the mountain, the mountain is yours. But, like we say in the pilot episode, it’s not yours if you can’t keep it.”
Apple TV+ has several Emmy contenders this year, including fellow drama series Severance. However, the streamer is high on Your Friends and Neighbors, having already renewed it for a second season. The show premieres with two episodes on April 11 and continues with weekly episodes until its finale on May 30.
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