Plot: After being fired in disgrace, a hedge fund manager resorts to stealing from his neighbours’ homes in the affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets hidden behind the wealthy facades might be more dangerous.
Season 1 of Your Friends and Neighbours was great.
Pros: This was a breath of fresh air to watch week to week. I like how the main antagonist loses his wealth and how to get it back. Jon Hamm was so good as the main character Coop. It was quite emotional and dramatic at times. The actors played his family was quite good for what ask of them and How intriguing all the storylines got to leading up to the end.
Cons: You don’t care to know Andrew’s neighbours or friends that much. The finale concluded in a unsettling result and I wish it was a one season drop so I can Bing instead of waiting week to week.
Genre: Black Comedy, Crime, Drama
Created by Jonathan Tropper
Starring: Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Mark Tallman, Hoon Lee, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Isabel Gravitt, Donavan Colan & Eunice Bae.
Opening theme: The Joneses by Hamilton Leithauser, Dominic Lewis
Executive producers: Jon Hamm, Jonathan Tropper, Connie Tavel, Craig Gillespie
Producer: Chris Arruda
Editors: Tatiana S. Riegel, Aaron Yanes, Andy Keir, Sheri Bylander, Andrew Pang
Production companies: Tropper Ink, Fortunate Jack Productions, Apple Studios
Network: Apple TV+
Casts & Characters:
Main
- Jon Hamm as Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a wealthy, disaffected financier who resorts to stealing from his neighbors after getting fired from his job
- Amanda Peet as Mel Cooper, Coop’s ex-wife
- Olivia Munn as Samantha “Sam” Levitt (née Brodie), Mel’s friend who is in a complicated on-and-off sexual relationship with Coop
- Mark Tallman as Nick Brandes, an NBA player, Coop’s former best friend, and Mel’s new lover
- Hoon Lee as Barney Choi, Coop’s business manager
- Lena Hall as Allison “Ali” Cooper, Coop’s troubled and free-spirited younger sister whom he reluctantly looks after
- Aimee Carrero as Elena Benavides, Nick’s housekeeper and Coop’s partner-in-crime
- Eunice Bae as Grace Choi, Barney’s wife, who comes from money
- Isabel Gravitt as Tori Cooper, Coop’s seventeen-year-old daughter
- Donovan Colan as Hunter Cooper, Coop’s teenage son
Guest:
- Corbin Bernsen as Jack Bailey, Coop’s former boss
- Kitty Hawthorne as Liv Cross, an employee at Coop’s firm with whom he had a one-night stand
- Daniel Dale as Jake Weston, Tori’s boyfriend
- Sarah Thompson as Susie Emerson
- Miriam Silverman as Gretchen Reagan, a divorcée who is friends with Mel
- Manu Narayan as Hari Sahni, Gretchen’s partner
- Robert Eli and Stephanie Kurtzuba as Peter and Diane Miller, the first couple Coop robs
- Michael O’Keefe and Lizbeth MacKay as Ron and Marley Cooper, Coop and Ali’s parents
- Robert Bagnell and Jennifer Mudge as Brad and Julie ‘Jules’ Sperling, the second couple Coop robs
- Anna Osceola and Rebecca Naomi Jones as Maggie and Suzanne Haber, a lesbian couple Mel is friends with
- Heather Lind as Kat Resnick, a lawyer having an extramarital affair with her daughter’s boyfriend, and the third homeowner Coop robs
- Dave Quay as Dom Resnick, Kat’s husband who is unaware of her infidelity
- Randy Danson as Lu Varga, a pawnshop proprietor and Coop’s fence
- Jordan Gelber as Paul Levitt, Sam’s philandering ex-husband with whom she is litigating a chaotic divorce
- Jameson Flynn Lopez as Henry Levitt, Sam’s 5-year-old son
- Sandrine Holt as Rebecca Lin, a police detective
- Gino Vento as Hector Gutierrez, Elena’s cousin whom she and Coop pay to give them alarm codes to homes they rob
- Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Christian Tómasson, a lecherous underground art dealer
- Freda Foh Shen as Dee Brodie, Sam’s mother, who lives in Boston
- Happy Anderson as Thomas Coffey
I highly recommend watching this series on Apple TV+.
Rating: 8 Out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident TV reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe