The original post: /r/television by /u/vaginalvr on 2025-04-25 03:33:14.
So this might sound a little out there, but after watching Jon Hamm in the Apple TV+ show Your Friends and Neighbors, I can’t stop thinking that his character could be the unofficial origin story for Buddy from Baby Driver.
Think about it: in the show, Hamm plays a seemingly put-together guy who slowly reveals deeper flaws, secrets, and emotional instability. There’s this charming surface — clean-cut, articulate, successful — but underneath there’s volatility and desperation. He’s stuck in suburbia, trying to keep it all together, but clearly he’s got some dark impulses brewing.
Now jump to Baby Driver: Buddy is a former Wall Street guy who lost everything and turned to crime. That’s literally part of his backstory. He used to have a normal life, but something snapped. He becomes obsessed with danger, adrenaline, and eventually revenge.
What if Your Friends and Neighbors shows us the slow unraveling that leads to that snap? Hamm’s character there already shows signs of moral erosion, and if his life completely collapsed — say, lost his job, his family, his identity — it’s not a stretch to imagine him running from it all and reinventing himself in the criminal underworld.
He even keeps that same smooth-talking, slicked-back persona — only now with a gun and a vendetta.
Obviously not canon, but as a character study, the two roles line up really well. One’s the man before the fall, the other is what he becomes.
Anyone else see this?