How far would you go to hold on to your wealth? That’s the intriguing and often amusing question at the centre of a new black comedy show, writes Streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.

Apple TV Plus’ new 10-episode black comedy show Your Friends and Neighbours follows a rich hedge fund manager whose bourgeoisie, New York lifestyle gets thrown into chaos after he’s fired over a fling with a fellow employee.

Surely he’ll be able to get a job elsewhere in the bustling world of the Big Apple?

Well, word spreads fast and before long Andrew “Coop” Cooper finds himself all but unemployable while staring down mountains of debt amidst a messy divorce and wondering how he can continue to fund the silver-spoon lifestyle his kids are used to.

Down on his luck and drunk at one of his neighbour’s exuberant garden parties, he experiences a peculiar stroke of genius. What if he just stole some of their money?

The residents of Westmont Village are all swimming in seven-figure salaries. What’s a $50,000 watch missing here or a quarter of a million dollar necklace gone there?

So begins a spiral into kleptomania that allows Coop to keep up repayments and appearances.

As the series goes on his targets only become more audacious and so do the consequences. Right off the bat, the show throws us into one of his awkward heists gone disastrously wrong. We meet Coop lying in a puddle of blood pooling on the ornate floor of a mansion he’s broken into and the owner unmoving beside him.

The story then winds back the clock a few months to leave its audience wondering: how did it get to this point?

And who better to play this character than Jon Hamm? His casting feels like a clever riff on his performance in Mad Men as the quintessential American rich man.

While the setup on paper may make Coop sound like another of TV’s many dislikable protagonists he is in many ways easy to root for.

Hamm makes him human. He’s desperate to keep the money flowing in order to provide for his kids who he actually does care for.

In many ways Coop feels like a character out of The White Lotus, which just wrapped up its third season. Those who enjoyed the social ridicule on display in that series will find a lot to like here.

Your Friends and Neighbours is releasing one episode a week. It’s so far proven a fun and light piece of suburban satire without doing away with some interesting character drama and is well worth a shot for any Apple TV Plus subscribers or anyone with a free trial burning a hole in their pocket.

EVER since Yellowstone wrapped up, a swatch of new cowboy dramas have saddled up and attempted to fill the gap left by the hit series.

It seems Netflix is desperate for a sweeping western saga that can compete with Taylor Sheridan’s epic starring Kevin Costner.

Last year it released Territory, an Australian drama series about a fictional battle for the world’s largest livestock farm.

It was promising, but still could not get near the prestige of Yellowstone, nor could its characters appeal in the way the infamous Dutton family did.

Netflix has now tried again with Ransom Canyon, an American series about three dynastic racing families who are locked in a fight for land and for love. The romance in this one is dialled up to cringe-inducing levels.

Yellowstone often felt like it was in soap-opera territory but always managed to imbue its characters and their exploits with enough substance that it always paid off.

It feels like Ransom Canyon doesn’t even try. This is a series that wants to take everything that appealed about Yellowstone without bothering to flesh it out and about two episodes in all the kick it can muster is definitely gone.

Alas, this will certainly not fill the hole left by Yellowstone.

A second crack of the whip by Netflix that truly misses. Fair go of it by this point, I reckon.