HBO is going back into the realm of property-line disputes and squabbles over pets with a second season of Neighbors.
The renewal comes a day before the six-episode first season’s finale debuts on Friday, and after a solid performance through its first five episodes. HBO says Neighbors has averaged 2.9 million cross-platform viewers per episode since its Feb. 13 premiere, a high number for an unscripted show there.
Creators, directors and executive producers Dylan Redford and Harrison Fishman will continue in those roles on season two of the show, which is produced by A24.
“Everyone has a neighbor story, and Dylan and Harrison have a knack for finding ones that make you laugh, cringe, and make it impossible to look away,” said Nina Rosenstein, executive vp programming, late night and specials at HBO. “At a time when even the smallest disagreements can spiral out of control, Neighborsfeelsboth hilariously absurd and surprisingly relatable. What makes the show specialisn’tjust the stories and people they find, but the empathy and humanity they bring to each episode. Season twocan’tcome soon enough.”
Fishman and Redford told The Hollywood Reporter that they realized while making the show that the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic was a major part of the story they’re telling. “More and more we started to realize, ‘Wow, COVID really inflamed this thing,’” Fishman said. “It inflamed so much in our country, but specifically just the way that people interact and with people’s space. All the things that you learn about the country and people just through this one window — that endpoint of a neighbor dispute seems so innocuous, but it really opened the doors to learning about so many other things in our country.”
Fishman and Redford executive produce Neighbors with A24 and Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, and JP Lopez Ali for Central. Rachel Walden of Gummy Films produces.