‘Being in the middle of these disputes is crazy’: A24’s first unscripted TV show heads to HBO Max this weekend — and you won’t believe your eyes

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.

Secondly, this marks A24's first foray into the world of unscripted TV. Marty Supreme creators Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein and Eli Bush join forces with Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford to give us a series with the same sense of dynamism ...