Fear Thy Neighbor

I am genuinely enthralled by this series. It's insane to me how different all these incidents are, yet the profile of the bloody climax is almost always the same. There's neighbors fighting over cleanliness of property, fences, property lines, kids, love triangles, noise, etc. The whole neighborhood is always aware of the escalation between the parties and most of the time the police were called (sometimes multiple times) with no result because there was lack of proof. It's almost always alpha males who want to go to literal war over property or some petty hill they want to die on. The feuds shown that often escalate to gun violence are almost inevitable. There are many bonafide FAFO situations that no one can do anything except watch it unfold like a train wreck. There's interviews with the families involved and stories told by helpless surrounding neighbors. Every incident goes way past the point of no return and escalates to a deadly ending. Gunfire, fires, destroyed property, firecrackers, fist fights, menacing with a vehicle, killing grass, killing pets, decapitation...and I'm only like 10 episodes in. It's insane. This is a showcase of human beings who are ticking time bombs. I always have a motto: I'm friendly with my neighbors, but I'm not their friend. After watching Fear Thy Neighbor, I feel even more justified in that belief. Lol.

Seeing neighbors kill each other over silly things like dog doo on their lawn will make you a nicer person. I no longer scream at people in my apartment building for minor etiquette infractions in the laundry room.

This series features episodes based on actual cases where a dispute between neighbors escalate to the point they end in bloodshed. They use actors to play the families and neighbors involved in actual cases and recreate actual events of disputes that end tragically. I'm sure they take some dramatic license but they seem try to include the actual events that started the first conflict and subsequent escalation that ended in tragedy. How accurate these are I can't say but they do include commentary of actual members of the 2 or more families involved along with the actual neighbors and friends. So they recreate the story including some of the actual people providing their recollection of the events to tell the stories of tragic events. I watch it with with my 21 year-old son and we are both intrigued with the show. Regardless of how accurate the recreation by actors may be, the viewer does learn the final outcome. It certainly shows the viewer why you want to do everything you can to be good neighbors and how tragically things can end when you don't.

It a like hate relationship with this show. I often wonder if these stories are of people with mental issues or they've left out critical details. It's one person that is confrontational without reason and one surreptitiously annoying person. The immaturity is amazing. No one says hey this is going too far and then avoids the other. Example: person says keep your dog off mg lawn, dog owner lets dog run free then feels victimized when the neighbor comes at him.

Decent series. Only they show highlights in the first couple minutes that show too much. Either watch 1st 5 minutes only or ignore and the remainder of the episode.