Jon Hamm is ready to enter the TV genre of ‘rich people behaving badly’ with ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’

Why eat the rich when you can watch their messy lives instead? For those who enjoy their television drama served with excessive wealth and comeuppance, Jon Hamm has a new entry with the Apple TV+ series “Your Friends & Neighbors.”

Why eat the rich when you can watch their messy lives instead? For those who enjoy their television dramas served with excessive wealth and comeuppance, Jon Hamm has a new entry with the Apple TV+ series, “Your Friends & Neighbors.” He plays Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a hedge fund manager grappling with life after divorce when he loses his job and resorts to stealing from friends in his affluent neighborhood to maintain his lifestyle of the one percent. Considering the current cultural conversation around the economy and consumerism, it feels like an especially propitious time for such a series. Hamm told CNN his new show is far from alone in that lane. “There certainly does seem to be a moment, especially on television, of sort of rich people behaving badly. If you want to look at ‘The White Lotus’ or ‘Big Little Lies’ or ‘The Perfect Couple,’ there’s quite a few examples of it,” Hamm told CNN. “Maybe the time is right for a show like this to really kind of say, ‘What is it we’re doing? What are we trying to say?’ That life is only about acquiring larger and larger piles of stuff? Because maybe that’s not exactly the most fulfilling way to live a life.” That viewpoint is something that his costar Hoon Lee, who plays Coop’s friend Barney Choi, shares.