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“Your Friends & Neighbors” works as an upper-class crime story, a biting and insightful satire of the rich and infamous, and a portrait of a man who sometimes narrates his own story, always starting with, “This is what happens…”
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Your Friends isn’t supposed to be rigorous prestige drama. It’s a guilty pleasure, with a bit more heart than you might expect. It gets away with it.
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Season 1 was a fascinating assessment of the fragility of the American dream. In Season 2, “Your Friends & Neighbors” gets more textured, showcasing a different level of affluence, the costs of lies and why wealthy white men, in particular, constantly fail upward.
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Your Friends & Neighbors Season 2 is further proof that Tropper, Hamm, and Apple TV have made one of the most addictive series on streaming. It may juggle a lot, and takes an episode to truly get into the meat of things, but once the scandals start, you can't look away.
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At its core, “Your Friends and Neighbors” is a conventional show consisting of conventional pleasures. It’s not pretending to be anything else. .... Sometimes, it’s OK to enjoy things that are meant to be enjoyed. That’s what Coop’s doing, that’s what Jon Hamm is doing, and in Season 2, we can join them.
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A second season refreshes its game with a lively Jon Hamm/James Marsden matchup, but the eat-the-rich plot still goes nowhere.
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Frequently captivating if ultimately too strained and schizophrenic to fully justify its continued existence.
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The show still tends to bog itself down with too many characters and stories, as well as the gimmickry of Coop’s narration intruding on what’s going on. .... The addition of Marsden is promising, though. .... We hope his presence focuses the story in a way that we didn’t see previously.
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Ashe is the kind of fresh juice a second season needs, even if it ultimately leads things to a preposterously far-fetched climax. Meanwhile, a slight problem remains that over ten hours the series can dip whenever Hamm isn’t on screen. The various characters’ family dramas sometimes feel as if they’re from a different, slightly schmaltzier drama.
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A good example of a decent enough comedy drama that would have been fine at one series, but because television is insatiable, the show must go on. As such, the second series throws new characters and plot lines into the same milieu and hopes that, once again, a snappy script and good acting will carry the day.
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I really wanted to like this series and hoped it would improve on its adequate first season, but it just became too consistently frustrating and was an overall disappointment. It's not a major disappointment, but it's still a letdown because it's trying to be too much of everything and not enough of one thing.