Mini-Reviews: Your Friends and Neighbors and The Accoutant 2

Your Friends and Neighbors' Finale

I finally finished the first season of Your Friends and Neighbors. Overall, I enjoyed the show. It did not follow the path I thought it was going to and ended up being a better overall show than I thought. Season one ends in an interesting place where Coop faces a choice. Does he get back into the life he had or continue to steal from his neighbors?

I wasn't very high on this show initially, and I can still see it going down the predictable route, but it keeps things interesting. Hamm and the rest of the main cast do a great job of making these characters compelling. When I started watching this, I did not care about Coop's kids, but Isabel Gravitt (who plays Tori Cooper) and Donovan Colan (who plays Hunter Cooper) have been given more fleshed-out storylines than a lot of other shows would have given them. The show has been renewed for season two, and odds are I will be watching it when it returns.

The Accountant 2

"The Accountant" is one of those movies that is always on TV. I have seen bits and pieces of it on TNT or some channel like that in the years since it hit cable. I did see it in theaters in 2016 and enjoyed it. Ben Affleck plays Christian Wolfe, an autistic accountant who is also a trained assassin. I enjoyed the first one, and this one was OK.

The action was good in this one, but the best part was the interaction between Christian and his brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal). Braxton doesn't fully get his brother. He is the younger brother, but he must look out for Christian. The two have a great rapport that feels like two brothers. Braxton is always willing to give his brother a hard time, but Christian doesn't always know how to respond. A lot of the movie's fun comes from the interactions between these two. It's not a bad movie to put on when you have a free afternoon.