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Your Friends And Neighbours opens with a surprisingly shocking situation for workaholic Andrew Cooper (Jon Hamm – Landman), and since it’s right at the start I’ll give you the flavour, that he wakes up next to a dead body, trying to clean up all the oodles of blood around, before dashing out of what is not his own house…
And it’s one of those shows where we then go back to ‘how this all began’, as he meets a woman in a bar from work, Liv Cross (Kitty Hawthorne – Dead Ringers 2023), who’s half his age. Well, she’s 28, he states he’s 48, and talks about how he’ll be in 10 years time… even though Hamm is actually 54 in real life.
Events go back even further, as he gives a summary of his life to date, and it’s amusing when it briefly shows him on his first day at work, having been digitally-de-aged. He has two kids, but is now divorced from his wife, Mel (Amanda Peet – Fatal Attraction 2023), so he’s like a rich version of ’80s sitcom Dear John.
But thanks to his latest dalliance, he’s also been fired by nasty boss Jack Bailey (Corbin Bernsen), and in attempting to get a new job, office politics stop him bringing his client list to the new places.
However, then it throws in his sister, Ali (Lena Hall – Snowpiercer 2020), who’s obviously got some sort of mental health issues going on (thus ticking that box), it then becomes rather like a dull soap opera, and just rich people’s problems, and all feeling rather pointless, unless you like just watching a programme that’s simply Jon Hamm walking about all day.
I know a lot of women and gay men will enjoy that, so fill your boots.
Your Friends And Neighbours is on Apple TV+ from tomorrow, but isn’t yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD. Initially, two episodes are available, and additional episodes will stream weekly.
Check out the trailer below:
Detailed specs:
Cert: 
Running time: 45-60 mins per episode
Release date: Friday April 11th (first 2 episodes, then weekly)
Studio: Apple TV+
Format: 2.39:1
Directors: Craig Gillespie, Jonathan Tropper, Stephanie Laing, Greg Yaitanes
Producer: Chris Arruda
Music: Dominic Lewis
Creator: Jonathan Tropper
Writers: Jonathan Tropper, Danielle DiPaolo, Bryan Parker, Evan Endicott, Jamie Rosengard, Josh Stoddard, Jennifer Yale
Cast:
Andrew Cooper: Jon Hamm
Mel Cooper: Amanda Peet
Samantha Levitt: Olivia Munn
Barney Choi: Hoon Lee
Tori Cooper: Isabel Gravitt
Nick Brandes: Mark Tallman
Jack Bailey: Corbin Bernsen
Rebecca Lin: Sandrine Holt
Liv Cross: Kitty Hawthorne
Allison ‘Ali’ Cooper: Lena Hall
Grace Choi: Eunice Bae
Hunter Cooper: Donovan Colan
Paul Levitt: Jordan Gelber
Julie Sperling: Jennifer Mudge
Maggie Haber: Anna Osceola
Suzanne Haber: Rebecca Naomi Jones
Dom Resnick: Dave Quay
Gretchen Reagan: Miriam Silverman
Hari Sahni: Manu Narayan
Gordy Hughes: Matthew Rauch
Brad Sperling: Robert Bagnell
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