“The minute you decide to go criminal, you are in so far over your head,” says Jonathan Tropper, creator of Apple TV’s Your Friends and Neighbors. The show, about Coop (Jon Hamm), a hedge fund manager turned criminal, has had its protagonist going through some serious turmoil in its second season. “One of the core beliefs of building Coop’s character for us in the writers' room is this notion that he comes from a world where he was the expert, and he thinks he can transfer that expertise to this world. But he can’t.”
James Marsden in Episode 9 —Courtesy of Apple
The Season 2 finale of Your Friends and Neighbors finds Coop, Nick (Mark Tallman), and Barney (Hoon Lee) dealing with the fallout of the penultimate episode, which ended with Owen Ashe’s (James Marsden) shocking death. Ashe lost control under the influence of drugs and started shooting at his friends. He slipped on his marble floor while chasing them down, cracking his head open and seemingly dying from his injury.
As Coop, Nick, and Barney drive Ashe’s body to the lake, they’re in for a surprise: Ashe isn’t dead. He wakes up and freaks out, picking a violent fight with everyone in the car. “One of my favorite scenes was the car fight,” says Laing. “I watched a lot of YouTube Car-Jitsu fights that really helped influence the way we shot.” (For the uninitiated, Car-Jiutsu is a combat sport where people fight using jiu-jitsu in the limited confines of a vehicle). In the chaos of the fight, the car swerves into the lake, sending the four men into the water. While Cooper, Barney, and Nick escape the car, Ashe doesn’t, and he drowns, truly dead this time. On land, the trio realizes Ashe is in the back seat, so they go back underwater to put him in the front seat so that if he’s found, it’ll look like he’d been on his own. Now, they are legitimately responsible for Ashe’s death.
In the finale, while dealing with the secret of Ashe’s death, Coop tries to start making amends. He wires the $600 million he was holding as part of their investment scheme back to Ashe’s account, and returns the painting he stole in the Season 1 finale back to Jack (Corbin Bernsen), his former boss (we see this in a montage at the end of the episode). But the weight of the secret is tearing his relationship with his friends Nick and Barney apart.
Hope for reconciliation
Hamm and Peet in Episode 9 —Courtesy of AppleThis leads Coop and his ex, Mel (Amanda Peet), to have an honest conversation about their needs. Coop suggests that they could scale back and leave the rat race behind, which Mel instantly reads as a sort of cry for help. Nobody can see Coop quite like Mel can, and she urges him to tell her what’s really going on. She knows he’s hiding something from her.
Oded Fehr and James Marsden in Episode 7 —Courtesy of Apple
Before a breakthrough can happen, Coop’s phone buzzes. Ashe’s lawyer, DeMille (Oded Fehr), is waiting for him outside. He returns the video of Coop stealing from Ashe (the inciting incident in their forced partnership) and tells Coop that he’s going to wire the $600 million back to him. He tells him that it’s not all Ashe’s money, and Coop should hold onto it for now—which he doesn’t want to do.
Tropper, however, suggests the real answer to who kidnapped Coop might be more complicated. “It would make the most sense to him that Ashe grabbed him, but we wanted to create the idea that once you start playing in these huge amounts of money with people like Ashe, you have no idea what you’re actually dealing with. It could be Cricket or Ashe, but as we get into Season 3, we may discover it was neither of them.”
An Easter egg hidden in a classic movie reference
Just like in the scene Coop watched all those episodes ago, Season 2 ends with a fisherman discovering the car at the bottom of the lake. Tropper says the season was always going to end this way, even before The Night of the Hunter came into play. “We had already plotted out the season, and then we got into lists of movies Coop would be watching,” he explains. Tropper credits executive producer and writer Jamie Rosengard with the idea to integrate The Night of the Hunter into Season 2, prompted by the idea of the fisherman finding Ashe in the lake.
What to expect in Season 3
Eunice Bae and Hoon Lee and Grace and Barney —Courtesy of AppleIn teasing the third season, Tropper says he’s most excited to see Barney and Grace’s story unfold. “Up until the end of Season 2, Barney and Grace had what I felt was the best marriage in the show. And as a consequence of Coop’s actions and Barney’s bad judgment, Barney’s marriage is now in peril. We’re gonna explore their marital problems in Season 3, and how it’s tied to Coop is going to become a really interesting thing to get into.” Laing also hints at “a very big action sequence.” While she won’t divulge details, she says, “it’s going to be what audiences love about the show.”
Says Tropper: “There’s no way that someone’s not going to pull the wrong block, and things are going to start tumbling down.”
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