The moment I saw the unhinged trailer for new HBO Max series Neighbors, I knew I wanted to talk to the people behind it. The concept is incredibly simple: follow duelling sets of neighbors as they navigate conflicts that truly boggle the mind – from privatized beaches to a few inches of grass.
The six-episode run feels groundbreaking in two ways. Firstly, it's a callback to the sheer chaos of 2000s reality TV, in a Wife Swap meets The Osbournes sort of way. The ethics around making fly-on-the-wall shows have changed for the better, but Neighbors takes things back to a time before manufactured narratives were a thing.
