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Topic: Your Friends and Neighbors

Your Friends and Neighbors
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Your Friends and Neighbors, based on an original idea by Jonathan Tropper, revolves around Coop, a recently divorced hedge fund manager who, after being fired, resorts to stealing from the wealthy residents in his tony upstate New York suburb in order to keep his family's lifestyle afloat. The petty crimes begin to reinvigorate him until he breaks into the wrong house at the wrong time.

Episode 01 was great, looks very promising.

The premise is nothing new, your basic midlife-crisis escalating, but the setting and the characters make it work well for the show.
I think it's the kinda set-up every man - young, old, single, married or divorced - can relate to and that's what makes it all the more interesting.

Jon Hamm + Amanda Peet are perfect in their roles. Jon Hamm narating is the icing on top, that voice is just perfect for that.

If I had to complain about one thing it's the de-aging....it always gives me the creeps when I see it. What is wrong with hiring another actor who looks similar to the old guy? -
It also looked like they only did it to Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet didn't need no de-aging smile (she looks almost exactly like 20 years ago).

Shows that deserved more runtime:
Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Company You Keep | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier

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Started watching the first episode and gave up halfway through not one for me YMMV.

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I've only watched the first 2 but I like it. I'm not sure why. It just feels like it setting the table for some serious drama. They have some really talented writer/s. The boss is a monster who is polite and insanely evil (the best kind). Everyone is very vivlized but I don't think that will last for long.

Simply, it could be great and it could be a bust. I'm gonna find out

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Just watched Episode 04 and I think it's still going strong, love it.

Coop is just a great character. Even though everything goes to shit around him, he still keeps a cool head and doesn't show a hint of loosing control.

Shows that deserved more runtime:
Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Company You Keep | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier

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6 Episodes by now and it keeps getting better and better.
The writing especially is very good.

Spoiler

That scene in the car when Coop response to his daughter - that was one perfect piece of dialogue.

You would think you want Coop to flip out about all that happens, that it's unrealistic how calm he seems...but the fact that he keeps calm makes this all so much cooler than you could imagine.

Thinking about it, I would say this is a mature version of Weeds..

Shows that deserved more runtime:
Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Company You Keep | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier