What was old is new again. My binge-watch recommendation on the Editors podcast just finished its first season. In Your Friends and Neighbors, on AppleTV+, Jon Hamm (of Mad Men fame) plays Andrew Cooper, another man in Westchester County, N.Y., who is no longer sleeping with the mother of his children. The show has one of the more delightful title sequences I’ve ever seen.

It’s set in the fictional town of Welmont, a kind of cross between Scarsdale, Larchmont, and Bedford. Our man Coop is going through a midlife crisis — a divorce, a lost job, and a cash squeeze — and he turns to robbing his neighbors of their expensive baubles to make ends meet. (That’s not much of a spoiler; it’s the first episode and premise of the show.)

The show isn’t perfect, but it does have a sense of the highest end of Westchester’s status games, and the slightly debauched culture of the private schools. The only thing that strikes me as slightly out of order is how lively the adult social life is — people in the show go from house party to house party, whereas in real life most of the socialization is driven by kids and around their activities. Also, on any given three-day weekend, the highest-end towns empty out as people fly down to Florida or head out to some other getaway. That doesn’t feature in the show, but it should.

There’s something about Jon Hamm himself that really sells this kind of midlife desperation. It’s in some way gratifying to watch a man gifted with such a face and charms reduced and humiliated, set about scraping and fighting for survival, even if you have to suspend your disbelief that such a man would need to turn to crime, rather than parents or in-laws, to bail him out of a financial pain point.