Your Friends & Neighbors

There's an entire genre of television now dedicated to watching obscenely wealthy people misbehave. Some shows expose the rot underneath all that money — Succession turning billionaires into Shakespearean raccoons fighting over garbage. Others just let you marinate in the fantasy: expensive houses, expensive affairs, expensive regrets. You know the vibe – tequila shots in tennis whites. Wives doing yoga. Wives in the sauna. Husbands in the sauna. Millionaire boys' nights. Everything's glossy, perfectly lit, and pretty douchey.

Your Friends & Neighbors sticks with the fantasy, then hands Jon Hamm a crowbar.

The setup's slick: Jon Hamm plays a recently fired hedge-fund manager who starts secretly robbing his ultra-wealthy neighbors to maintain the illusion that his life isn't quietly collapsing. Everybody drives something European, drinks something French, and makes each other's lives worse at over-the-top backyard bashes.

Led by one of television's great silently-unraveling-handsome-men, the show knows exactly how to weaponize Hamm's charm. One minute he's brooding over a beer and an old movie. The next he's hopping a hedge in search of a six-figure watch. Watching him juggle suburban respectability and increasingly bad decisions is half the fun. The robbery sequences are small-scale, oddly relaxed, and fueled by the fact that this man is absolutely not a professional criminal. His biggest threats are often the neighbor's Rottweiler and roaming rent-a-cops. Then the show remembers crime is, in fact, a crime – and the criminals he's associating with don't give a shit about his zip code.

Side note: The show also sprinkles in a little guilty pleasure. Hamm's voiceover prices the luxury items he's stealing – Patek Philippe Nautilus, $140K. McIntosh tube amp, $22K. Hermès Birkin, don't ask. A little cheesy? Sure. But aren't we all a little curious what the super rich have shoved in the back of their closet?

If glossy adult dramas about morally compromised rich people toasting to the good life while robbing and blackmailing each other are your thing, this will scratch the itch. Just know this is much more Billions than Succession.