On ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’

Given its premise and trailer, one could be forgiven for thinking that the AppleTV+ series, Your Friends and Neighbors, is a thriller or dark comedy. An unfairly maligned hedge fund manager, Andrew Cooper, commits white-collar crimes while fooling everyone around him about his identity? It seems the perfect role for the debonair, articulate, and virile Jon Hamm, who masterfully played an advertisement executive in Mad Men and a formidable criminal villain in Baby Driver. The series could have been a fun mix of two other excellent shows, White Collar and Breaking Bad.