To Catch a Thief

It’s not good enough to fill The White Lotus-sized hole in your viewing schedule but it is Jon Hamm and it is yet another eat-the-rich series in a vast landscape of anti-privilege sarcasm, so it will do for now. Hamm is a recently divorced and even more recently a fired hedge fund manager in New York who discovers that alimony, child support, legal fees, two houses, child psychologists, SAT tutors, car payments, gardeners, roofers, painters, property taxes and health insurance premiums are a little too much to pay. So he takes to picking up things from his rich neighbours that they won’t even recall: piles of forgotten cash, a few watches, some jewellery. His justification? Well, they say you never own a Patek Philippe, you merely look after it for the next generation. But the next generation, he tells himself, and us, tells time on their phones, so they won’t miss it. Nothing is yours if you can’t hold on to it, says his boss to him, while firing him. As the world is realising, nothing is ever yours anyway.

Amanda PeetentertainmentJon HammJonathan TropperOlivia Munnstreaming businessYour Friends and Neighbours