Examines stories of absurd, outrageous, and dramatic real-life residential conflicts from a wide range of larger-than-life characters across the United States, opening a verité portal into the lives of contemporary American.
Then again, many of these spats have been taken to the court of public opinion — as well as, frequently, actual court — via social media, where Fishman and Redford encountered the videos as early inspiration for the show.Then their subject starts to flirt with the idea of disengaging and moving to a like-minded nudist community, even relocating for a few days to test the new setup out. The saga has a more full and satisfying arc than other, more fragmentary ones while teasing out the series’ subtext: that this level of aggravation is, on some level, a choice.
Our Take: The disputes that Fishman and Redford try to document in Neighbors are ones that had extensive amount of pre-shot video — all the better to document what someone’s doing! — in place before their crews showed up. In other words, the dispute is pretty far down the insanity road before they even get there, and it shows in how they portray both ends of each of these disputes.
