It’s tough to shake the feeling that “Your Friends & Neighbors” is selling us something. Some of that is surely unintentional, a matter of its star Jon Hamm’s evergreen association with midcentury ad man Don Draper and “Mad Men.”
Still, his choice to foreground particular aesthetics makes it seem as if series creator Jonathan Tropper purposefully wants to stoke certain urges. Begin with the decision to have Hamm’s dethroned New York hedge fund maestro Andrew Cooper share his secret truths via voiceover: Coop, as his intimates call him, hides his bitter resentment well enough, but the polished flatness of his interior monologue tells another tale.
