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Elle
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
The 'Your Friends & Neighbors' Finale Just Revealed Who Killed Paul and Framed Coop
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Spoilers below. Throughout its first season, AppleTV+'s Your Friends & Neighbors has explored the trappings of money and status, and what the wealthy class will do to maintain appearances. The season 1 finale 'Everything Becomes Symbol and Irony' hammers its thesis home via the reveal of what actually happened to Paul Levitt (Jordan Gelber), the man Andrew 'Coop' Cooper (Jon Hamm) had been accused of murdering. After perusing Sam's (Olivia Munn) phone records, Coop realizes that his number doesn't appear anywhere in the files—a stark omission given the two were sleeping together and regularly in contact. This leads Coop and his accomplice Elena (Aimee Carrero) to search Sam's house for a burner phone. Instead, they find Paul's suicide note. When Coop confronts Sam, Your Friends & Neighbors swaps the POV. Sam narrates her side of the story, detailing her humble beginnings as a waitress and her initial draw towards Paul's money and the life it offered her. When he began cheating, she realized how unhappy she was in her marriage, and she knew that a healthy divorce settlement would be her only way of maintaining her lifestyle. Paul called her on the night of his death begging for forgiveness and to salvage their marriage. But when she didn't immediately concede, he pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head right there on FaceTime. Sam began to call 911 but stopped when she realized that deeming his death a suicide would nullify his life insurance policy—money she was banking on (literally). Instead, she drove from Boston to New York to stage a murder scene, shooting his already limp body twice before stashing the smoking gun in Coop's faulty Maserati trunk. Coop takes this evidence to the police to exonerate himself, and he's surprisingly chill about the fact that his former lover tried to frame him for murder, especially because her reasoning is pretty weak. 'You weren't very kind to me,' she reasons when he initially pushes her on her motive, and he seems to accept this without pushback. Coop was far from an angel in Your Friends & Neighbors, but he didn't mistreat Sam in a significant way to warrant this kind of backstabbing. And Sam only slightly pays for this—she's arrested, but it's later hinted that she'll get off with a fine and community service. Until that point, Coop spent most of 'Everything Becomes Symbol and Irony' preparing his loved ones for what seemed to be an inevitable conviction and sentencing. His attorney Kat (Heather Lind) thinks a plea deal for manslaughter in exchange for an eight year prison sentence (versus 25 to life for first degree murder) is his best bet, and Coop is this close to giving in and giving up. He gifts his son Hunter (Donovan Colan) one of his most prized and expensive watches as a keepsake, and tries but fails at a real conversation with his daughter Tori (Isabel Marie Gravitt). His bipolar sister Ali (Lena Hall) openly acknowledges Coop's lifelong support during one of her performances, before also blasting her married ex-fiancé in front of the crowd, whom she started sleeping with again. The watch tips off Coop's ex-wife Mel (Amanda Peet), who scolds him for not fighting hard enough—not just for his life right now, but also for their marriage. Mel's real talk is a wake-up call for him, and is the stimulus for his eventual liberation. The soulmates don't exactly get back together—Mel tells Coop at a charity gala late in the episode that she's going to fly solo for a while—but Your Friends & Neighbors is leaving the door open for their eventual reunion. After all, Coop admits to Mel that he was able to forgive Sam so easily because he didn't love her, in contrast to the grudge he held against Mel for her cheating. As for Coop's new career as a professional thief? Despite the predicament he found himself in due to this decision, he can't stay away—even when he has the option to walk. Coop's former employers return to offer him his job back, citing a Swiss client that will only work with Coop. He negotiates his offer, demanding 20 percent of that deal and 25 percent overall, sensing they're desperate enough to say yes. It turns out he's correct, and they agree to convene that evening to fly to Europe for a meeting. But when the time comes, Coop opts out. He leaves the gala early, telling Mel on the dance floor, 'This is where I leave you' (likely a nod to show creator and showrunner Jonathan Tropper's eponymous novel-turned-movie). On his way out, he finds time to threaten Tori's tennis rival's mom to secure his daughter's spot at Princeton, revealing that he knows about the SAT test answers in their home and isn't afraid to announce it to everyone. Some light blackmail to indicate he's no longer the black sheep and is back in the mix of the Westmont Village interpersonal politics. When Coop finally leaves, he detours to a mansion and gets to work instead of heading to the private plane launch pad, leaving his hedge fund colleagues to take the meeting alone. He nicks a piece of art from an unidentified neighbor's home, and leaves without a trace. As he drives away, the trunk of his car pops open one more time. Your Friends & Neighbors has already been renewed for a second season with James Marsden joining the cast as 'a guy who comes from money and has a relationship with Samantha,' according to Deadline. While Coop's stock seems to be up by the end of the first season, there's no question that his past with Sam and his choice to continue robbing his wealthy community will land him in hot water again when the show returns.
UPI
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Lena Hall: 'Neighbors' sis opposite of Miss Audrey from 'Snowpiercer'
1 of 5 | Lena Hall's "Your Friends & Neighbors" wraps up its first season on Friday. Photo courtesy of Apple TV+ NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) -- Lena Hall says Ali, the open-hearted, mentally ill woman she plays on Your Friends & Neighbors, couldn't be more different than the tough chanteuse she depicted on the post-apocalyptic Snowpiercer. "This is like the polar opposite of what Miss Audrey was. I went from 22-inch corsets to no corset at all. It's just sweatpants [to play Ali]," Hall, 45, told UPI in a recent phone interview. "It's a lot less time in the makeup and hair chair, which is nice." The energy of the characters is also very different, she noted. "Miss Audrey was so knowing and wise beyond her years and had 'queen' energy and Ali is the opposite. She's just trying to survive day-to-day," Hall added. "I guess they were trying to survive day to day on Snowpiercer, but Ali's just trying to survive day-to-day in the regular world built for someone who is not like her and she's got a great sense of humor about herself," she said. "She's very intelligent and she knows her flaws, but she hides everything with a big dose of humor and I like how real she is. I love how real she is and how down-to-earth she is." Wrapping up its first season on Apple TV+ Friday, the dark comedy series follows Coop (Jon Hamm), an unemployed hedge fund manager who turns to robbing his rich neighbors to keep up with his former lifestyle. Hall plays Coop's sister, a struggling musician who moves in with him because he can no longer pay for her to have her own apartment. Amanda Peet plays Coop's cheating ex-wife Mel and Olivia Munn plays Sam, the married woman with whom Coop is now having an affair. "I love that, in this show, it's like she's the one who's supposed to be broken, but she is probably the most normal one out of everyone," Hall said. Because Coop is always busy with his extracurricular activities, he doesn't have much time to spend with Ali, so she is closest to Coop's troubled son, Hunter (Donovan Colan). "She sees a lot of herself in her nephew," Hall said. "He is highly creative, musical, but also is having a hard time fitting into the world and he feels unseen. He says that in the show. He's feeling like he doesn't fit in and Alice sees that, for sure. She's there to kind of nurture him and make sure that he's protected in a way," she added. "They're connected." Unfortunately, Ali's naivete sometimes puts herself and her family in awkward situations. "There's a child-like innocence to her," Hall said of her character, who has a restraining order preventing her from stalking an ex-beau. "She's very smart. She's an adult, but she still holds this trust in everyone that most people don't have when they're older. So, she's not bitter," Hall added. "There's not a sense of, 'Everyone's trying to screw her over, right?'" So, of course, Ali blithely attends Mel's birthday bash with no resentment toward her because Mel left her brother for another man. "She's just like: 'You're cool and I still love you no matter what. We're still friends,'" Hall said of Ali's relationship with her former sister-in-law. "I'm going to be here, even though I don't fit in at all," she said of Ali's way of thinking. "Ali doesn't fit in anywhere. So, she's very much her own little microcosm and the one person who really understands her well is her brother and I think she probably had a really good relationship with Mel." Leading a double life tends to catch up with you.#YourFriendsAndNeighbors - Now Streaming Apple TV (@AppleTV) May 30, 2025 One of the most memorable moments from this season is Ali singing an acoustic version of the Thompson Twins' "Hold Me Now" at Mel's party, which Mel and Coop listen to from afar while they jump on a trampoline and remember better days together. "It's so cool to have this music that you're singing be a part of a scene and help lift it emotionally into a place that it needs to be," Hall said. "Ali is singing really about her own missed opportunity when she was supposed to get married. That was her wedding song. And [Coop and Mel's] marriage is falling apart. It's just a double meaning there." Hall said she sometimes is cast in roles that have a musical component, while other characters are tailored to her talents. "A lot of times, my comfort level of singing is much higher than my comfort level in acting," she said. "So, being able to sing in my comfort level then helps me walk into a character much better." TV, film star Jon Hamm turns 54 Jon Hamm attends the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual installation luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 30, 2008. The "Mad Men" star said in an interview that he's "no Don Draper." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Elle
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
'Your Friends & Neighbors' Was Already Renewed for Season 2—and James Marsden Is Joining
Apple TV+'s newest show, Your Friends & Neighbors, puts Jon Hamm back on the small screen in his first leading TV role since the Emmy-winning series Mad Men, where he portrayed the successful advertising exec Don Draper. Now, Hamm plays Andrew 'Coop' Cooper, a flailing hedge-fund manager who begins stealing from his affluent neighbors after he loses his job (and his wife, played by Amanda Peet). While season 1 comes to a close with today's finale, we're already anticipating the next one. Here's what we know about season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors so far. Yes! Back in November, before season 1 even premiered, it was announced that Your Friends & Neighbors had already been renewed for another season. 'It's a wonderful honor,' Hamm told Forbes when asked about the unprecedented move. 'It is a tremendous vote of confidence, obviously, and honestly, they've never done it before, so we were the first one. It's a tremendous feather in our cap. It means we're doing something right.' The show's creator and executive producer, Jonathan Tropper, feels the same way. 'The support from everyone at Apple has been phenomenal,' he told The Hollywood Reporter, 'and the fact that they've ordered a second season before we aired our first is an incredible validation and a tribute to the work of this stellar cast, crew, writers, directors and producers who worked so hard to make this show what it is.' Jon Hamm is set to return for the second season, along with series regulars Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Gravitt, and Donovan Colan. And according to Deadline, season 2's cast will expand to include James Marsden, Arienne Mandi, Erin Robinson, and Bre Blair in recurring roles. Hamm, who also serves as an executive producer, played a huge role in casting some of the show's bigger names. 'He's got a pretty good list of contacts in his phone, and any time we needed to get to someone, usually Jon knew them pretty well,' said Tropper. 'I wanted to cast Amanda Peet. I wanted to cast Olivia Munn. I don't think any of that happens if Hamm wasn't producing the show with me.' Yes. According to THR, season 2 is currently being filmed. Not yet, but stay tuned. This story will be updated.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Jon Hamm's Apple TV+ Dramedy Is a Massive Hit. Here's How to Stream the Finale
Former hedge fund dude Coop (Jon Hamm) is about to face the music. After eight episodes of stealing, lying, and generally falling into all sorts of catastrophes, the comedy-drama of Your Friends & Neighbors is about to release its final episode. Will Coop find his way out of the financial chaos he's caused for himself? Will he be convicted of murder? Will he be able to fix the messed-up relationship he has with his family? Will this final episode end on a note of sorrow, or one of accidental optimism? And most importantly: Who killed Paul? Your Friends & Neighbors is one of the sleeper hits of the past few months, and according to various metrics, including FlixPatrol, the series is currently Apple's most-watched original series. Here's what to know about the finale of Your Friends & Neighbors, including release date, streaming time, and what might happen with the plot. No major spoilers ahead. The 9th and final episode of Your Friends & Neighbors Season 1 is called "Everything Becomes Symbol and Irony," and will hit Apple TV+ on Friday, May 30. The title of the episode seems to refer to a voiceover monologue that Hamm's character, Coop, had in the very first Apple TV+ originals tend to release new episodes on Fridays at 12:00 a.m. ET. This means that, yes, often, new episodes will hit at 9:00 p.m. PT. Between Thursday, May 29, and Friday morning, May 30, you'll be able to stream the Your Friends & Neighbors finale, "Everything Becomes Symbol and Irony." Essentially, at this point, none of Coop's old rich-person friends are fully aware of all of his crimes, petty or otherwise. This means the finale will have to reveal to what extent Coop will be caught for all of his robberies. But, more importantly, it will have to reveal who killed Paul (Jordan Gelber), the ex-husband of Sam (Olivia Munn), who has had an on-again, off-again romance with Coop throughout the show. The show is already renewed for Season 2, so it's very possible that not every single mystery will be answered, and that even if we do discover the identity of Paul's killer, it may just set us all up for even more Hamm's Apple TV+ Dramedy Is a Massive Hit. Here's How to Stream the Finale first appeared on Men's Journal on May 29, 2025
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kelly Ripa says 'life becomes nudity' during empty nesting on 'Live with Kelly & Mark'
Kelly Ripa is baring it all with her tips for future empty nesters. The mom of three offered some advice about kids leaving home to "Your Friends & Neighbors" star Amanda Peet on the May 26 episode of "Live with Kelly and Mark" alongside husband and co-host Mark Consuelos. "Let me just say this," Ripa said. "The first one is like a bit of a shock. Each one, the second one, is like, no big deal. Third one, for 24 to 48 hours, you're going to be like, 'Oh my gosh, what have we done now? Now it's just us.' "And then your entire life becomes nudity in the household wherever you want. Total freak show all the time," the daytime star added as Consuelos smiled wide and the audience laughed. "Wow, good to know!" Peet said jokingly, telling the married "Live" co-hosts that she didn't "want to cry" about her eldest daughter moving "very far away" to the "opposite coast." Ripa and Consuelos, who have been married since 1996, share Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 22. The couple's youngest son graduated from the University of Michigan earlier this month. 'The White Lotus' star Aimee Lou Wood revealed she's 'very anti-Botox.' She's not alone. Peet shares daughter Frances Benioff, 18, with her "Games of Thrones" creator husband David Benioff, and the pair have two younger children: Molly, 15, and Henry, 10. Peet said that she sends Frances Benioff advice over text but told Ripa and Consuelos that "I get one reply for every 10 texts I send her." Ripa related with the sentiment, saying that she "sent my kids when they graduated, all of these articles on like 'The best things people look for when hiring,'" and she said, "Nobody reads anything." Consuelos and Ripa said their kids have told them that "you were right" about "everything." During her own childhood, Peet said "it was a secret thing" that she "thought" her parents were cringeworthy. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Kelly Ripa talks 'nudity' during empty nesting on 'Live'
