Jon Hamm turns to a life of crime in ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ trailer

Jon Hamm is a disgraced hedge fund manager who turns to a life of crime in Entertainment Weekly’s exclusive first look at the trailer for Your Friends & Neighbors.

In the new series, Hamm plays Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a man who, frankly, isn’t doing so great right now. He’s fired in disgrace from his cushy job, all while grappling with his recent divorce. With the strain on finances, he concocts a plan: steal from his neighbors’ homes in the affluent neighborhood in which he resides. Coop soon discovers, however, that “the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined,” per the show’s synopsis. 

That much is clear in the trailer, which features the following voiceover from Coop as he trespasses on his neighbors’ homes and takes stock of the luxury closets filled with Chanel shopping bags and designer purses: “How the hell can everything go so wrong so fast?”

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Debuting April 11 on Apple TV+, the series hails from creator, showrunner,  executive producer, and director Jonathan Tropper (This Is Where I Leave You, Banshee), who mined from his own experience living in an affluent community not unlike Coop’s “at a time when everyone seemed to be making ridiculous amounts of money on internet startups and hedge funds,” he tells EW in an email. 

“I was watching people’s lifestyles and value systems evolve in real time, and it just seemed to me it couldn’t possibly be a sustainable way of life,” continues Tropper. “Every few years the bubble would burst and the fragility of the entire scaffolding would become briefly visible —  the notion that all of it could be lost in a heartbeat.” The series, an examination of wealth, community, marriage, and midlife reckoning, among other themes, traces the “lengths someone might go to maintain his wealth and status, even if it means breaking all the unwritten rules,” says Tropper. “There’s this unconscious systemic belief that once you climb the mountain, the mountain is yours. But, like we say in the pilot episode, it’s not yours if you can’t keep it.” 

And though a wealthy hedge fund titan is not exactly the underdog one might typically root for, “gradually, as his situation devolves, he experiences an awakening, and as that entitlement melts away, he rejects the system that rejected him while still desperate to take care of his family,” says Tropper of Coop. “I think that’s something everyone will find relatable. It’s when he takes on that new agency that he becomes the hero of his own story.” By the end of the season, teases Tropper, Coop will find himself in a “new and definitely more precarious place, but somehow more alive and in touch with who he is than he has been in a very long time.”

Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Marie Gravitt, and Donovan Colan also star in the drama, which scored an early season 2 renewal late last year.

Watch the trailer for Your Friends & Neighbors above.