Your Friends & Neighbors begins with a once high-flying hedge fund manager waking up in someone elseโs luxurious house, next to a dead body and in a pool of blood.
How he ended up there consumes the first season of this compelling Apple TV+ series, which stars Jon Hamm and takes a peek at the lives of the ultrarich in a leafy New York suburb.
โI was interested in writing about the status symbols, about the way wealth informs community,โ says creator, showrunner and producer Jonathan Tropper.
โAnd then at the same time, what I really wanted to do is subvert it a little bit and talk about how impermanent it all is.โ
โWhy is more always better?โ asks Hamm. โIs the only metric really the accumulation of these larger and larger piles of stuff, whether itโs money or goods or houses or wives or what have you? Weโre kind of arrived at this time where this story is particularly resonant.โ