Jon Hamm 10 years after Don Draper

It’s remarkable to watch Jon Hamm, a decade after the finale of Mad Men aired on May 17, 2015, navigate the treacherous waters of Post-Iconic-Role Syndrome that other actors have drowned in. While the ghosts of Harry Potter and James Bond haunt Daniel Radcliffe’s and Daniel Craig’s subsequent work, Hamm has somehow managed to acknowledge Don Draper’s DNA while transcending it. Ten years after hanging up Draper’s perfectly tailored suit, Hamm is still selling. In Apple TV+‘s wickedly entertaining Your Friends & Neighbors, in which he plays a divorced, out of work finance guy who turns to stealing expensive goodies from his fellow residents of a tiny New York suburb, Hamm filches paintings and fences luxury watches with the same silver-tongued expertise he once applied

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