Your Friends and Neighbors
Warning ! This article contains spoiler for Apple TV+ ’s Your Friends and Neighbors .
Jon Hamm ’s newfangled " rust the Rich " series on Apple TV+ tout an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score of 84 % , but it has a timeline event that just can not be ignored . In late years , many"Eat the Rich " moviesand show have shore on the big and small screen . While some , likeTriangle of Sadness , The Menu , andSaltburn , have performed incredibly well among viewers and critic , others have been far less memorable additions to the bomber - musical genre . A newTV show , starring Jon Hamm , seems to rank among the good show in the hoagy - genre .
With a fairly adept Rotten Tomatoes grade of 84 % , the show continues Jon Hamm ’s stripe of delivering one compelling television operation after another . Unfortunately , despite achieving critical success and being renew for season 2 , theoriginal Apple TV+ showis weighed down by a timeline issue that one can not ignore . Owing to this timeline mutual exclusiveness , one of the master tale beats in the series also does not make a portion of sense .
Your Friends & Neighbors Stretches The Suspension Disbelief A Little Too Far
The Show’s Main Plot Device Makes Little Sense
In its opening electric arc , Your Friends and Neighbors ' storyline is principally driven by Jon Hamm ’s fictional character ’s despair to keep himself afloat . After losing his high - paying Book of Job , Hamm ’s Andrew Cooper struggle to break free from the image of success he cultivated throughout his adult life . Therefore , instead of make out clean-living about his fiscal situation , he starts slip from his moneyed neighbors to keep his headland above water . While this narrative gimmick paves the direction for many challenging story development , it seems immensely blemished because of the show ’s overarching timeline .
… It makes no sense that John Hamm ’s Andrew Cooper is able to break into his neighbors ' homes with ease without instantly face instant consequences .
Your Friends and Neighborsis set in the present class . Owing to this , it realise no common sense that John Hamm ’s Andrew Cooper is able-bodied to fracture into his neighbors ' homes with ease without instantly face up instantaneous consequence . Cooper exact that his loaded neighbors are so accustomed to living in their suburban house of cards of safety and surety that they do not even bother nominate any supplying to ascertain their homes ' security . While this could make sense to some extent , the fact that none of the homes Cooper steals from have any kind of active security systems seems like a bit of a stretchiness .
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asunder from walk through the dual aliveness of its chief graphic symbol , Andrew Cooper , Your Friends & Neighbors also features many memorable performances .
InYour Friends and Neighbors ' episode 3 , Cooper even sets out to slip the patronage ring of an NBA star . Although the ring is enclosed in a locked cabinet , he manage to get his hands on it by look on a YouTube television about lock chamber - pick . This again comes off as a forced game conveniencebecause why would an expensive piece of memorabilia be protected by a lock that can be bypassed using tips from a YouTube video ?
Your Friends & Neighbors Story Should Have Been Set In The 2010s
An Earlier Timeline Would Have Made The Show More Believable
IfYour Friends and Neighborswas fix somewhere between the previous aughts and the early 2010s , its plot would have been a band more credible . Smartphones and sophisticated camera - based technologies did not live in the belated 2000s . owe to this , it would have made sentiency for Jon Hamm ’s character in the series to steal from his neighbors without being captured by CCTV cameras or other ripe security devices . Cooper ’s steal endeavors would have seemed more constitutional and plausible if the show had pick out shoes a decade or two in the yesteryear .
Unfortunately , Your Friends and Neighborsattempts to make its story more relatable for modern audiences but trust a small too much on plot conveniences . It is concentrated not to see how the Apple TV+ show ’s play would also have been a relevant reflection of the time if it extend somewhere around the early 2010s . With the Great Recession as the backdrop , Andrew Cooper ’s struggles with find a job and maintaining appearance would have seemed more realistic and relatable .
Jon Hamm’s Performance Makes Up For Your Friends & Neighbors' Timeline Issues
Despite The Flaws, The Show Is Worth Watching
Although the show ’s main story apparatus seems too convenient , Your Friends and Neighborshas an interesting approach towards exploring the familiar " Eat the Rich " narrative . Instead of portraying its main character reference as another iteration ofBreaking Bad ’s Walter White , the show spotlight how Andrew Cooper is hypocritical with his criticisms of the moneyed people around him when he himself is trying to be a part of their clubs and sustain their lifestyle despite his declining nett Charles Frederick Worth .
explicate Don Draper ’s influence on hisYour Friends and Neighborscharacter , Jon Hamm explained ( viaNewsweek ) that " Don Draper was responsible for sell the American aspiration … Andrew Cooper ’s pretty much responsible for buying it . "
By brilliantly delivering Cooper ’s inner soliloquy , Jon Hamm absolutely captures how his character ’s notion in being above his neighbour is in reality a coping mechanics because , deeply down , he recognize he is just like them . In some scene , Hamm also seemingly morph into Don Draper when he identify the value of the items he is stealing as if pitching them in an advertising political campaign . WhileYour Friends and Neighborsstill has some obvious flaws , Jon Hamm ’s portraying of Andrew Cooper and his run afoul ideologies makes it worthwhile .
A hedge fund manager, struggling after job loss, turns to burglary to uphold his family’s lifestyle. The series explores the complexities of his double life and the precarious balance he strives to maintain, ultimately leading to unforeseen consequences when he targets the wrong home.
A hedge investment company managing director , struggle after job loss , turns to burglary to uphold his family ’s lifestyle . The serial publication explores the complexity of his double living and the precarious balance he strives to keep , at last leading to unforeseen consequences when he place the wrong house .
