'Your Friends and Neighbors' Review: Midlife Crisis Noir

Ah, yes, the middle-class midlife crisis, or a white cinema of ennui, if you will. It used to be a favorite subgenre of mine, reaching its apotheosis in films such as Fight Club, Adaptation, American Beauty, The Weather Man, Lost in Translation, Sideways, and Hannah and Her Sisters (along with pretty much everything Woody Allen has done since Annie Hall), or TV shows like Californication or Casual. I was a teenager having a pre-life crisis when I enjoyed those movies, and while they’re all still great in different ways, I view that genre with a little more skepticism these days. Perhaps I’ve seen too many movies about financially comfortable white guys who are bored with their lives, but I’ve become disillusioned by it all. That’s possibly why I like the new Apple TV+ series YourFriends and Neighbors a bit less than other people.

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