Jon Hamm's new series, a Netflix sports show and an auction to aid Gaza: what the Star's Culture team recommends this week
TV: 'Your Friends & Neighbors'
As it hurtles toward its May 30 season finale, this Apple TV Plus dramedy (new episodes on Fridays) has managed to surprise and compel week after week. A perfectly cast Jon Hamm stars as a newly divorced and fired hedge funder who keeps up the lifestyle to which he's become accustomed by stealing from the titular denizens of an unnamed leafy New York City suburb. Imagine John Cheever rebooting 'Breaking Bad' and you're nearly there. In the early 2000s, creator Jonathan Tropper (who also made the amazing action series 'Banshee') wrote a half-dozen novels that mined similar terrain. All are worth a look. —Doug Brod
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