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…
Published: February 13, 2026 3:00 pm
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