For “Your Friends and Neighbors” creator Jonathan Tropper, the neo-noir TV series began, well, next door.
“I lived for 15 years in Westchester, adjacent to neighborhoods like the one in the show,” Tropper explained in an interview with TheWrap. “The notion just occurred to me that I was living in a very safe neighborhood. None of us really locked our doors, and it would be so easy to just walk into the houses of friends of mine.”
His new Apple TV+ original takes place in the fictional New York community of Westmont Village. It follows Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Jon Hamm), a self-made, recently divorced hedge fund manager who, after losing his high-paying job, starts robbing his neighbors’ homes to make quick cash.