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In Apple TV’s Your Friends and Neighbors, Jon Hamm plays Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a recently divorced New York hedge fund manager who’s even more recently, unemployed. In an effort to keep up an illusion that nothing in his life has changed, he begins breaking into the homes of his wealthy neighbors to steal and sell their stuff, inadvertently catching on to their secrets as well. (The friends and neighbors of the title include Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Mark Tallman, Hoon Lee, Lena Hall, and Aimee Carrero.)
This dark comedy isn’t exactly about how hard it is to be a once-rich suburban white guy, but neither is it a pointed lesson in the downfalls toxic masculinity. A former insider turned secret outsider, Coop is well positioned to offer up bitchy commentary without becoming a total caricature. Season two launches in April, but until then (and between episodes), catch up on these 10 other shows about all the weird shit that’s going on in your neighborhood while you’ve been holed up inside your house watching TV. Stream Your Friends and Neighbors on Apple TV.
Weeds (2005 – 2012)
A classic of the crime-in-the-suburbs genre, strains of Weeds definitely run through Your Friends and Neighbors, and many other shows that it inspired. Mary-Louise Parker stars as Nancy Botwin, recently widowed mom who’s desperate to maintain the upper-middle-class lifestyle once provided by her husband. She can’t really handle the idea of giving up the conspicuous consumption to which she’s become accustomed, so she decides to make some bank for herself. And what better way to do that, particularly in the LA ‘burbs, than by selling weed (obviously the show was made and is set before the drug was legalized for recreational use in 2016)? Like Jon Hamm’s Coop, Nancy is just not ready for her family to give up on nice things. Buy Weeds from Prime Video.
Bad Sisters (2022 – 2024)
A pitch perfect pitch-dark comedy, the Irish import Bad Sisters picked up several well-deserved Emmy nominations in its first year. Writer and co-creator Sharon Horgan leads the cast as Eva Garvey, oldest of five sisters, including Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), who’s married to John Paul, an abusive and isolating husband. When the dude winds up dead under rather suspicious circumstances, down-on-his-luck insurance investigator Tom (Brian Gleeson) starts poking his nose into things. We know the sisters definitely wanted John Paul dead, but did they actually do the deed? Tom’s family business will go under if he has to pay out on the life insurance policy, so he’s very motivated to pin the (potential) crime on at least one of the women. Stream Bad Sisters on Apple TV.
The White Lotus (2021 — )
If the characters of Your Friends and Neighbors went on vacation, it might go a little something like this. Each season of Mike White’s anthology show begins with a flash forward to the rather horrible outcomes that will be faced by at least some of the holiday makers traveling to one of the title’s White Lotus resorts (each season is a distinct storyline and location, with the occasional recurring character). The first season’s manager, Murray Bartlett’s Armond, makes clear to the staff that the ultra-wealthy guests are little more than overgrown children, and need to be coddled as such. At these very fancy resorts, at which people have paid absurd amounts of money to be pampered, competitiveness and general toxicity ensure that everyone’s going to have a miserable time, whatever the price. And yet I still kinda want to stay there? Stream The White Lotus on HBO Max.
Good Girls (2018 – 2021)
Beth, Ruby and Annie (Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman, respectively) are three moms in suburban Michigan, and they are all having serious money troubles. They’re not exactly criminal masterminds, so they concoct a scheme to rob the local grocery store to solve them—a store that just happens to be serve as a front for a money-laundering operation. They make off with $500,000, but the gang leader whose money they unknowingly stole wants it back, and the store manager who spotted one of their tattoos and is threatening blackmail. It’s definitely not a sitcom, but it’s a solid comedy-drama with a talented cast of characters who keep finding themselves in deeper and deeper over the course of four seasons. Stream Good Girls on Netflix.
Dope Thief (2025)
Ray and Manny (Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura) are childhood friends from Philly who’ve been supporting themselves by impersonating DEA agents and robbing low-level stash houses in the inner city. Manny’s looking to move on while Ray’s eccentric mother, Theresa (Kate Mulgrew, clearly having a great time) needs a lot of money fast. And so, as you’ve probably guessed, we’re about to enter “one last big score” territory, which, in this case, involves robbing a meth lab that is, it turns out, part of a large-scale operation that the legit DEA has in its sights. Stream Dope Thief on Apple TV.
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Deli Boys (2025 – )
Pakistani-American journalist and producer Abdullah Saeed has long been celebrated for his investigative reporting and his Vice documentaries, many of them dealing with the impacts of cannabis laws. That experience lends a unique verisimilitude to this comedy series following two brothers—hardworking Mir (Asif Ali) and hard partying Raj (Saagar Shaikh)—after the death of their wealthy father, at which point they learn that the bulk of their family’s money comes not from the public-facing chain of delis, but from the illegal drug operation running behind the scenes. It’s fast-paced and frequently very fun, and hits the theme of maintaining a front in modern America, but this time starring people who don’t look like Jon Hamm. Stream Deli Boys on Hulu.
Big Little Lies (2017 – )
Much as with The White Lotus, part of the thrill of Big Little Lies is in watching some some very rich, very attractive, very white (mostly) ladies have a tough time in a beautiful locale (in this case, Monterey, California). Unlike Your Friends and Neighbors, money isn’t really at issue here, except in the ways that even small differences in perceived wealth can lead to big drama—but there are secrets aplenty. In season one, five women (played by Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoë Kravitz) become involved in a murder investigation connected to a school fundraiser that threatens to bring all of their private dirt out into the open. Stream Big Little Lies on HBO Max.
Dead to Me (2019 – 2022)
Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini make for an all-time-great TV pairing in this dark, twisty comedy about a couple of women who become united in tragedy…and lies. Applegate is Jen Harding, a realtor whose husband was killed in a hit-and-run incident; she’s not dealing very well, and takes a bit of inspiration from Cardellini’s Judy, who has maintained a cheery disposition following her fiancé Steve’s death from a heart attack—easier to do, given that Steve’s still secretly alive. And then we discover that Judy has a storage unit with a car that looks suspiciously like the one that killed Jen’s husband—and that’s all just part of the first episode. The show only gets wilder from there. Stream Dead to Me on Netflix.
The Santa Clarita Diet (2017 – 2019)
Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant star in the comedy-horror series about a husband and wife real estate team whose lives are turned upside down when she learns that she’s a zombie (a result of some bad clams, natch). She enjoys her new, less-inhibited life, and mostly only eats bad people, so it’s fine. The premise is obviously horror-movie-adjacent, but the joke is very much that everyone in the suburbs is living beyond their means, and everyone has something to hide. It’s just that in the case of the Hammonds, the big secret in question is that she’s undead, and the crimes they’re concealing involve cannibalism. Stream The Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix.
