Coop (Hamm) is a New York hedge fund manager who is recently divorced and becomes unemployed. He uses criminal methods to maintain his lifestyle and keep his family living to the standard to which they have become accustomed.[1][3]
Cast
Main
Jon Hamm as Andrew "Coop" Cooper, a wealthy, disaffected financier who resorts to stealing from his neighbors after getting fired from his job
Amanda Peet as Mel Cooper, Coop's ex-wife who is a therapist
Olivia Munn as Samantha "Sam" Levitt, estranged wife of Paul Levitt and Mel's friend who is in a complicated on-and-off sexual relationship with Coop
Hoon Lee as Barney Choi, Coop's friend and business manager
Mark Tallman as Nick Brandes, a former NBA player, Coop's former best friend, and Mel's new boyfriend
Lena Hall as Allison "Ali" Cooper, Coop's free-spirited younger sister who struggles with mental illness and whom he reluctantly looks after
Aimee Carrero as Elena, Nick's housekeeper who becomes Coop's partner-in-crime
Eunice Bae as Grace Choi, Barney's wife, who comes from money
Isabel Gravitt as Tori Cooper, Coop's seventeen-year-old daughter
Donovan Colan as Hunter Cooper, Coop's teenage son
In a flashforward, Andrew "Coop" Cooper wakes up next to a dead body, and hastily covers his tracks. A month earlier, Coop, a wealthy hedge fund manager, is abruptly fired by his boss, Jack Bailey, over a complaint from Liv Cross, an employee he consensually slept with months prior. Blacklisted from finding another job, Coop learns Jack faked the complaint to absorb his accounts. Coop is divorced from his ex-wife Mel after catching her cheating on him with his best friend Nick, a former NBA championship winner, and has a strained relationship with his children, Tori and Hunter. Living in a rental home, Coop has an on-and-off sexual relationship with his neighbor Sam Levitt, herself going through a chaotic divorce, while supporting his wayward sister Ali. During a neighborhood party, Coop impulsively steals a roll of cash, and later returns to the house after the owners leave on vacation. Helping himself to more valuables, including a Patek Philippe watch, he considers robbing his other affluent Westmont Village neighbors to maintain his family's expensive lifestyle.
2
"Deuce"
Craig Gillespie
Jonathan Tropper
April11,2025(2025-04-11)
Without proof of ownership, Coop is forced to sell the watch for much less than it is worth to Lu, a pawnshop owner in the Bronx. Coop rubs elbows at the country club, where Mel and her friends console Sam when her ex-husband Paul flaunts his much younger girlfriend. Bringing Hunter to pick up his new drum kit, Coop takes Ali to live with their parents, but lets her move in with him instead. Spending the evening with Sam, he comforts her young son in the middle of the night. During Tori's tennis tournament, Coop robs the home of her competitor Chelsea's parents, Brad and Julie Sperling. Stealing a Richard Mille watch, he discovers the Sperlings have bought authentic SAT answers, and takes incriminating pictures. Lu refuses to buy the watch, sending Coop away after forcing another angry customer to leave at gunpoint, and runs Coop's plates.
Coop's business manager Barney Choi arranges a meeting with a lawyer to discuss suing Coop's former firm. At home, Coop finds Lu waiting; having run a background check on him, she agrees to continue fencing his stolen goods as long as he never exposes her involvement. Hunter's band plays at a house party, and he suffers a bad trip after taking psychedelic mushrooms; he calls Ali, who arrives to comfort him. Robbing his neighbors Dom and Kat Resnick, Coop witnesses Kat having sex with her daughter's boyfriend, and escapes with an expensive bottle of wine. He grudgingly joins Nick's party for the neighborhood husbands while their wives attend a self-defense course, where Mel and Sam open up to each other after sparring. The stolen bottle is broken when Coop picks a fight with Paul, and the party is cut short after a guest suffers an open fracture during a basketball game. Brad Sperling reports his missing watch to the police, but Detective Rebecca Lin is uninterested in investigating. Sneaking into Nick's house to steal his NBA championship ring, Coop is suddenly held at gunpoint.
4
"Literal Dragons"
Greg Yaitanes
Jamie Rosengard
April25,2025(2025-04-25)
Nick's housekeeper Elena has caught Coop red-handed, but proposes that they work together. With Elena as his getaway driver and Lu as their fence, Coop uses inside information from Elena's network of fellow housekeepers to carry out four more robberies. Liv warns Coop that the lawyer he met is in cahoots with Jack, and Sam is hurt to see Liv kiss Coop on the cheek. Elena enlists her cousin Hector, who works for the neighborhood's security company, to provide them with alarm codes. On his next heist, Coop disarms the alarm and attempts to steal a Birkin bag, but encounters another alarm and is forced to flee empty-handed from the owner's dog and the police. Nick throws an extravagant birthday bash for Mel, who has an existential crisis and leaves the party in dramatic fashion; Coop finds her and they share a sentimental moment, before he and Sam slip away together.
5
"This Tourist Has Balls"
Greg Yaitanes
Evan Endicott & Josh Stoddard
May2,2025(2025-05-02)
Sam ends her relationship with Coop, taking her children to visit her parents in Boston. When Hunter and his classmates are caught snorting his prescription Adderall at school, Mel agrees to donate $240,000 to save him from expulsion. Under financial pressure from home renovations and his overbearing in-laws, Barney nearly burns down the new construction while drunk. Ali finds a steady musical gig but runs into her ex-fiancé Bruce, whom she abandoned during a psychotic episode. Coop and Elena plan to steal a neighbor's Roy Lichtenstein painting, and a wary Lu sends them to Christian Tómasson, an underground art dealer. They replace the painting with a forgery, and Christian takes them to a club to celebrate with cocaine. Elena dances with Coop but is cornered and groped by Christian, who pulls a knife on Coop when he intervenes. Pepper-spraying Christian and escaping, Elena lashes out at Coop for losing the deal. A frustrated Coop attempts to rob Sam's house, where he slips on Paul's blood, regaining consciousness to find him dead.[a] The next day, Coop and Barney each pretend nothing has happened.
Detective Lin rules Paul's death an execution-style murder, but notices Coop's attempt to clean up and that Paul fired a gun, which is missing. Sam is questioned as the beneficiary of Paul's $20 million life insurance policy, as is Coop about his confrontation with Paul at Nick's party;[b] they both provide alibis, but avoid mentioning their relationship, and Coop ignores Elena's and Lu's calls. The Cooper family visit Princeton University, where Coop and Mel spend the day drunkenly reminiscing while Tori and Hunter explore campus. Coop admits to Mel that he was fired, and they apologize to each other and have sex, after which Coop suggests the family start anew. Tori and Hunter are also inspired by their experiences, and the Coopers meet the Chois for dinner. In the street, Coop is jumped by Christian's thugs and Barney tries to intervene, but is hit by a car.
7
"The First Honest Thing"
Stephanie Laing
Danielle DiPaolo
May16,2025(2025-05-16)
After a surreal dream about the state of his life, Coop wakes up in the hospital, declining to cooperate with Detective Lin's investigation. Elena agrees to settle her brother Chivo's $150,000 debt to drug dealer Félix, but Hector refuses to continue aiding the robberies. Lin and her partner Hernandez discover footage of Coop on Sam's nanny cam, and bloody evidence in Coop's garbage tying him to the scene of Paul's death. Ali begins an affair with the married Bruce, while Barney angrily turns Coop away for continuing to lie to him. While the neighborhood attend Paul's funeral, the police search Coop's home, interrupting Ali's tryst with Bruce; she warns Coop, who preemptively blackmails Kat Resnick into serving as his legal representation. Lin arrests Coop for Paul's murder in front of the whole of Westmont, having found the murder weapon in his car. Coop spends the night in jail, which he reflects on as his first honest action in a long time.
8
"When Did We Become These People?"
Stephanie Laing
Bryan Parker
May23,2025(2025-05-23)
Coop pleads not guilty and his father posts his bail, but Mel refuses to let Coop see their children. Elena has stolen all of Coop's ill-gotten cash to pay off Chivo's debt; realizing his money is gone, Coop confronts Lu, who convinced Christian not to kill him, but warns Coop not to return to her shop. Mel and Nick encounter Sam at a coffee shop, and Sam declares Coop a murderer while Mel reveals she slept with Coop on the Princeton visit. The confrontation turns physical and video of Mel punching Sam is shared online; in the aftermath, Nick leaves Mel, who is put on leave from her job, and Bruce refuses to see Ali. Coop, Barney, and Nick drown their sorrows on a wild night out, with Coop and Barney admitting dissatisfaction with their materialistic lives; Barney passes out just as Coop attempts to admit his crimes. Hunter visits Coop to support him and Coop apologizes for their fractured relationship. Kat pleads with Coop to take a plea bargain, but he maintains his innocence.
9
"Everything Becomes Symbol and Irony"
Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper
May30,2025(2025-05-30)
Facing prison time, Coop signs over his half of the family's house to Mel and gifts Hunter his Rolex Cosmograph Daytona. Ali stops taking her medication for bipolar disorder and rants about Bruce onstage, later vandalizing his home. Mel convinces Coop to fight the charges, and he realizes Sam used a burner phone, which the police never found. Elena helps Coop search Sam's home for the phone, insteading discovering Paul's suicide note, and Sam reveals the truth: a distraught Paul broke in and video-called her before shooting himself. As suicide would nullify his life insurance payout, Sam removed the note and staged Paul's murder, planting the gun to frame Coop. Desperate to keep the life she feels she has earned, Sam holds Coop at gunpoint, but is unable to shoot; she is arrested, and an exonerated Coop is welcomed back into Westmont high society. Nick accepts that Mel still loves Coop, who extorts the Sperlings to ensure Tori's place on the Princeton tennis team. Coop receives an offer to return to his old job, but instead of joining Jack and Liv on a business trip, he steals a painting from Jack's mansion, turning his back on his previous life.
In April 2025, James Marsden joined the cast as a series regular for the second season.[4] In May 2025, Arienne Mandi, Erin Robinson, and Bre Blair were cast in unnamed recurring roles for the second season.[5]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the season holds an approval rating of 78% based on 60 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads: "An acidly witty riff on Breaking Bad, Your Friends & Neighbors' class commentary occasionally stumbles but has an endlessly watchable avatar in star Jon Hamm".[17] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, it has received a score of 61 out of 100 based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[18]
Notes
↑ As depicted in the opening scene of "This is What Happens"
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