"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."
"Although the pandemic is only mentioned in passing a handful of times, it's clear that COVID-19 was an accelerant for many of Neighbors' subjects, amplifying an ascendant strain of radically anti-communal ideology. In the first episode, Seth, a lanky, pockmarked landowner in Shawmut, Montana, recalls moving there with his wife in 2016 to flee the "plague" that he says he saw coming, as it has in the 20 th year of every century."
Neighbors is a six-episode HBO/A24 docuseries that frames each episode around two neighborly disputes linked by tenuous thematic threads. Featured conflicts include fights over public land access in rural Montana and the Florida panhandle and disputes driven by animal odors. Many participants have been driven past reason and are often amplified by social-media rubberneckers. The cast includes eccentrics and outsiders such as psychic healers, former strippers, and a nudist college student. The pandemic acted as an accelerant for anti-communal beliefs among some subjects, exposing a broader unwillingness to share space with others.
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