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A24 has been responsible for some of the most exciting projects to hit our screens in recent years. They’ve had a hand in television projects as wide-ranging as Ramy and Euphoria to Beef and Hazbin Hotel. Now the production company has teamed up with Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, and Eli Bush to bring you a docuseries that is surely unlike anything you’ve seen before. While Safdie and Bronstein are still currently on a high after bringing us Marty Supreme, this new project of theirs is just as compelling.

What Is ‘Neighbors’ About?

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Neighbors first premiered on February 13 and is already becoming one of the most original series on the HBO Max platform. The dramatic docuseries follows real-life disputes between neighbors, and each episode allows you to get to know two separate cases that are ongoing. The first episode features neighbors in Montana who are feuding over the use of a gate between their properties. Their fight has even gone to the courts because they can’t talk to each other without spewing threats. But these aren’t your average neighbors; one man is an odd, gun-toting conspiracy theorist, and the other has gone viral for his woodworking videos and cosplay involving a samurai sword. Yes, it’s as wild as it sounds.

The other case in Episode 1 involves an area of Florida shoreline where a wealthy resident demands that his section of the beach be completely devoid of locals. The heated debate between beachgoers and this clueless rich guy only escalates when a First Amendment Rights activist also decides to get involved — and all of that just happens in the first 30-minute episode. By diving into two cases in each installment, Neighbors provides an in-depth look at what can happen when a person feels like their entitlements are getting threatened.

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HBO and A24’s ‘Neighbors’ Is a Bizarre and Kooky Ride

Neighbors is definitely one of those shows where truth is certainly stranger than fiction. There are a lot of big personalities present, and most of the people profiled are genuinely eccentric. Several of the producers got the idea for the series after becoming obsessed with viral videos of neighbors feuding, which got increasingly heated during the COVID-19 pandemic. While frustrating to these homeowners, it has gifted us with footage that is both wildly weird and endlessly captivating. Neighbors is also unintentionally hysterical most of the time. Although it’s likely these people aren’t being funny on purpose, their circumstances are inherently absurd, and they often don’t seem to notice how ridiculous they sound when discussing their beefs.

You shouldn’t go into Neighbors expecting a ton of closure. Some of the cases being presented are ongoing, but this only adds to the realism of the series. Many of these neighbor disputes will go on forever (typically until someone moves), so some of the stories are open-ended, but that doesn’t prevent each episode from being a must-watch. Plus, if you think of yourself as quirky, Neighbors also has the ability to make you feel like the most normal person ever. At least you’re not fighting with your neighbor because you own dozens of cats or are raising livestock in the front yard of your suburban home. All of these disputes show the fireworks that can happen when people feel like their inalienable rights or their homes are being invaded, making Neighbors a fascinating watch from start to finish.

Each episode starts out with a visual in space, and then hones in on an exact place in the United States. This is a fantastic reminder of how insignificant many of these fights can seem when you look at them with a broader perspective. All of these arguments in the scheme of things are not that important, but they cause so much anguish for the people involved, and this heightened sense of drama is what makes Neighbors so fun to watch.

Neighbors is available to stream on HBO Max in the U.S. New episodes drop every Friday.

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February 13, 2026

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Prince Harry refused to address his uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest during a TV interview while visiting humanitarian organizations in Jordan.

“I understand you don’t wish to talk about your family, your uncle, things back in London you’re here because you don’t want to distract from the work you’re doing on the WHO and on Gaza,” a Channel 4 correspondent said to Harry, 41, in a video released on Friday, February 27, before segueing into the topic at hand.

“Firstly, why are you here in Jordan? Why is it so important to you?” the reporter asked.

Harry ignored the remark about Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, and said that he spoke with Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, in the months leading up to the trip. He noted they were both passionate about highlighting “the incredible work that Jordan does for this region.”

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested at his Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, on Thursday, February 19 — his 66th birthday. The United Kingdom’s Thames Valley Police confirmed that they had “arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office.” While they did not reveal the suspect’s identity, due to national […]

“The work’s been going on for decades, but more so recently, it’s been a humanitarian hub for the Middle East, especially with everything that’s going on in Gaza, and also Syria, as well,” the Duke of Sussex continued.

Harry explained that violence in that region can be overshadowed. “It was a really important time for us to collaborate and come here and shine a light and focus on the very real humanitarian catastrophe that has happened and continues,” he went on, praising “the incredible work that Jordan does for this region.”

The former senior royal and wife Meghan Markle spent this week visiting a refugee camp, aid organizations and treatment centers in partnership with the World Health Organization.

Harry’s trip came almost one week after the arrest of Andrew, 66, for allegedly engaging in illegal misconduct while serving in public office. (Andrew was released from police custody within hours of his arrest.)

The Thames Valley police department said authorities were investigating claims that Andrew shared confidential information with late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, per BBC.

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Andrew, the former Duke of York, was notably stripped of his remaining titles by King Charles III in October 2025 over his links to Epstein. The decision was made amidst renewed scrutiny, following a decision by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 to remove his military affiliations and patronages, which resulted in Andrew no longer using “His Royal Highness” title.

He had previously been accused of sexual assault by Virginia Giuffre, who said they first met through an Epstein associate. Andrew denied the claims and later reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre for an undisclosed sum. (Giuffre died at 41 on April 25, 2025).

Attorney James J. Sexton told Us Weekly the evidence against Andrew is “damning.” If convicted, he faces life in prison.

“He’s certainly in a position where he’s been out of the graces of the royal family for a long time and for a myriad of reasons, but this is certainly the most damning pool of evidence that’s ever been provided against him,” Sexton told Us. “It’s certainly something that any attorney looks at and says, ‘I would not want to try to make a meal out of those ingredients,’ because it is not a favorable one for him, and it’s a good one for the prosecution.”

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Television is an unforgiving business. Most shows never make it past the pitch stage, and even the ones that do live and die by ratings. Network TV may be viewed as a primitive medium now, but it’s still cutthroat, which is exactly the lesson Joel McHale’s character tries to teach the “coddled” millennials in The Great Indoors. And while we’re still waiting on the long-promised Community movie, it’s worth revisiting the McHale series that briefly looked like a hit before the numbers turned.

The CBS show experienced surprising success during the onset stages of the first season in 2016. During the second half of the season, The Great Indoors‘ ratings plummeted, and the show was cancelled upon the season’s conclusion in 2017. Some would claim the show was not so much taken off the schedule, but rather, a victim of “cancel culture,” due to offending millennials. But in reality, it cancelled itself due to an egregious misread on the part of executives to move away from the perfect lead-in.

McHale Is an Older Journalist Teaching Millennials How To Work in the Real World in ‘The Great Indoors’

Created by Mike Gibbons, co-creator of Tosh.0 and prolific late-night writer, The Great Indoors follows an outdoors magazine journalist, Jack (McHale), who becomes the boss of a group of millennials after the magazine pivots to exclusively digital. Jack, an old-school guy with traditional ways, clashes with the new generation and their tech-obsessed behavior. The magazine is produced by an outdoors adventurer and staunch baby boomer, Roland (Stephen Fry). The series also features Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Christine Ko as the naive millennial employees, and Chris Williams as Jack’s friend and bar owner, who guides him on how to manage this group of young hipsters. Susannah Fielding stars as Brooke, who once had a romantic fling with Jack, and is not only Roland’s daughter but Jack’s boss as well. Throughout the show, Jack embarks on a series of romantic endeavors.

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Because modern-day seemingly exists in a cultural vacuum, any year of the decade blends in with each other with few distinct characteristics, but derisively looking down upon millennials as a curse on society is very much 2016-coded. It was a time when “triggering” people deemed “snowflakes” was in vogue and used unironically. The Great Indoors premiered on October 27, 2016, less than two weeks before the hotly contested Presidential election, which was a platform for that hostile dialogue surrounding toughness and fortitude. While the CBS show is not explicitly political or socially active to any degree, it imagines a fantasy where the traditionally masculine, world-traveling reporter teaches inexperienced twentysomethings how to operate in the world beyond the purview of their computer. In the same breath, it gleefully pokes fun at the vanity and arrogance of McHale’s character.

‘The Great Indoors’ Sparked Controversy Among Some Millennials

Life mirroring art, The Great Indoors, a show that provokes its millennial characters, was mired in controversy among millennials upon release. At a press conference for the show’s pilot, a fiery discussion broke out between Gibbons and the cast with members of Millennial Media. The showrunner shared that when they focus-grouped the pilot, the millennial viewer took umbrage with the jokes about the respective generation being coddled. A millennial audience member interrupted Gibbons and asked, “How are we so coddled, and what about our overly politically correct workplace bothers you?” in an incendiary tone. Stephen Fry defended his showrunner, bringing up familiar talking points such as his generation growing up in tougher times, which ignited more contentious back-and-forths between Gibbons and the disgruntled audience member. Gibbons clarified that he respects millennials and their intelligence, but added that they have an “inability to resist taking four photos of themselves a day. They will come back if it’s about them.”

Defending himself against the wrath of the combative millennial audience member, Gibbons insisted that The Great Indoors is an equal-opportunity offender, claiming it targets younger generations and the older generations of McHale and Fry. When a different conference attendee asked Gibbons if the show would be dismissed for its simplistic premise, the writer jokingly responded, “Our show is going to make America great again.” In 2016, those latter four words were destined to ignite any crowd, positively or negatively. The millennial audience member returned to ask if Gibbons wanted millennials to watch the show, since he was striving to alienate them. If the show is offending millennials, it is “the best strategy ever,” McHale responded.

‘The Great Indoors’ Struggled Once It Lost Its ‘Big Bang Theory’ Lead-in

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It appeared The Great Indoors struck a chord with a certain demographic in America, as it opened to a solid rating of 8.8 million viewers. Most importantly, the show received a 1.9 rating in the key 18-49 age demographic. The show attracted enough attention to earn a full season extension through 2017. However, The Great Indoors proved to be a front-runner, as the ratings plummeted in the second half of the season. The May 1 airing of Episode 21 dropped to 4.1 million viewers and a 0.8 demo rating.

What happened? Did the “woke mob” ostracize The Great Indoors from the airwaves? Some would tie the show’s initial outrage from select millennials to the show’s eventual cancellation, but the explanation is actually simpler than that. The series initially aired right after CBS’s crown jewel, The Big Bang Theory. Having an advantageous lead-in of that caliber is vital for a brand-new show, and Gibbons’ sitcom capitalized on that opportunity with high ratings. All but the last two episodes of its lone season aired on Thursday nights, then, for whatever reason, executives moved it to Monday to conclude the season. The week before moving to Mondays, the show received 6.4 million viewers and a 1.2 demo. The following week, without the aid of The Big Bang Theory, ratings dropped to 0.9. The series failed to obtain a second season.

Even in an era where network television, especially multi-camera sitcoms, is marginalized in pop culture, the fundamental principles remain intact. An ideal lead-in like The Big Bang Theory can set a show up for decades-long success. When Seinfeld premiered, it aired behind Cheers, and by the time the latter show ended, the former carried the mantle as NBC’s prized show. However, The Great Indoors is no Seinfeld, but merely a forgotten, poorly reviewed sitcom with redundant jokes about every clichéd stereotype of millennials. The show ridiculed people left and right, but they didn’t get the last laugh once the show lost The Big Bang Theory lead-in. If anything, sticking with this lead-in would appear to be common sense, something that Joel McHale’s character would likely mock millennials for lacking.

The Great Indoors is available to rent on Prime Video in the U.S.