Your Friends and Neighbors Apple TV+ Series Review

Apple TV+ definitely have planned to release as many series as possible this year, with the next season of Severance and Silo with other new series such as The Studio, Surface, Invasion and Slow Horses.

Your Friends and Neighbors is a watch-worthy series without much of a plot, but with good execution and a great cast.

TMJ Rating: 🍿🍿🍿/ 5

The Plot of Your Friends and Neighbors

When a Hedge Fund manager gets fired from his job and loses his wife to another man, his life hits a new set of lows that he tries to recover from by stealing from his wealthy neighbors to maintain the illusion of wealth and prosperity.

The plot may not be entirely unique, but the execution is on point with a great cast that shares amazing on-screen chemistry. The more you watch the series, the more it basically feels like a show without much substance, but it is entertaining and will keep you hooked with its sheer ridiculousness.

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The intro to the show is something that you never recover from, with John Hamm walking through what seems to be his disintegrating life all around him. I think they could have removed John Hamm from the intro and improved the intro sequence exponentially. He seems to have an indifferent expression on his face throughout the whole thing, and it seems pointless.

Coming to the scenes in the series, I personally like the unofficial and visually stunning ads for expensive things like Patek Philippe watches with John Hamm's audio narration and matching visuals. I wonder how much those fancy brands paid to be featured in the series or if the actors received the products as part of an elaborate thank you.

The Cast

Jon Hamm as Andrew "Coop" Cooper and Amanda Peet as Mel Cooper have their marriage broken up by Mark Tallman as Nick Brandes right around the time that Coop gets fired from his job.

Olivia Munn as Samantha "Sam" Levitt plays the jaded trophy wife, enriched by divorce, and trying to get on with her life with the other people in the wealthy gated community she is a part of.

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Aimee Carrero as Elena Benavides plays the inordinately attractive maid who is fed up with her blue-collar life, while one of her employers ( Brandes ) stares at her behind while she's cleaning.

Lena Hall plays Allison "Ali" Cooper, Coop's sister, who is trying to get her life back on track while getting a handle on her mental health struggles and helping her brother stay grounded through all the things he is going through.

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Eunice Bae as Grace Choi and Hoon Lee as Barney Choi play the couple who still have their marriage in working order, but barely. They are in the middle of renovating their home while Grace's parents do a great job looking down on their son-in-law and his capabilities.

Socio-Economic Commentary

Your Friends and Neighbors series on Apple TV+ shows us what happens when someone from the have section is pushed into the have-nots. A recently wealthy person is forced to know that everyone around him is vain, including his prior self.

Basically, this series speaks to the troubles of the "Trust Fund Brigade," where most of their lives go into keeping up appearances, filling the big empty voids in their lives with expensive things such as $200,000 cars, million-dollar watches, and throwing massive parties to celebrate their insecurities.

Your Friends and Neighbors is a statement on income inequality, about the hollow lives of people regardless of affluence and their relentless quest for something better and meaningful, even if for a short while.

Should You Watch it? Yes.

While you might feel that this series might be pointless, it is definitely entertaining with good comedy, some thrills, and an okay screenplay. Go in with low expectations, and you should be fine.