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HBO and A24’s New Show Is Hilarious, Then Jaw-Dropping, Then Terrifying
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HBO’s new docuseries Neighbors is billed, at least in some quarters, as a comedy, but it’s the most sobering non-news content I’ve seen on my TV in a while. Created by Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford, the six-episode series, which debuts new episodes on Friday nights, builds each installment around a pair of neighborly disputes, usually connected by some tenuous thematic thread—the first, for example, centers on feuds over access to public lands in rural Montana and the Florida panhandle, respectively; the second, on animal odors. By the time the A24 show, which counts Marty Supreme’s Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein among its executive producers, catches up with them, the people involved have already been driven past the point of reason, often egged on by a crowd of raucous social-media rubberneckers, so it’s easy just to write them off as freaks and loons and thank your stars you don’t live next to them. (Like Safdie’s movies, the series has a thing for eccentrics and outsiders—there are multiple psychic healers and former strippers, as well as a nudist college student with her eyes on a career in the music business—that lingers right on the edge of gawking.) But not far beneath the show’s surface is a portrait of a country whose residents have forgotten how to share space with other human beings, or simply reject the obligation to do so altogether.
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HBO’s Josh Safdie-Produced Docuseries ‘Neighbors’ Is Nextdoor Brought to Life by Way of ‘Uncut Gems’: TV Review
Every episode of the HBO docuseries “Neighbors” begins with the camera zooming in from outer space. But before the action alights in the location of the latest dispute between adjacent property owners to catch the eye of directors Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford (yes, grandson of Robert), the shot fills with the telltale red, white and blue of the American flag.
The reminder of where “Neighbors” takes place is almost redundant, even as it emphasizes a fundamental part of Fishman and Redford’s shared project. “Neighbors” unfolds across a broad swath of our great nation, from Manhattan apartment blocks to Montana ranches to San Diego suburbs. But there’s a fundamentally American sensibility that unites its subjects — all eccentric, stubborn individuals whose belief in property as a sacred right has led them into conflict with someone equally convinced of their own entitlement. No other nation on Earth, it’s implied, could produce such a smorgasbord of personalities, imbue them with a bedrock belief in homeownership as the endpoint of self-actualization and arm them with a litigious culture fueled by online exhibitionism. Over six episodes, that argument gets plenty of evidence. It isn’t always fun to watch, but “Neighbors” is never not compelling.
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