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Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

CTS-1 Let's be honest: nobody comes to "The Neighbors" as a Tommy Wiseau virgin. People come to "The Neighbors" because they have seen "The Room," and, because they feel an innate need to be punished and can't afford to have a really attractive person do it for them, they want more.Well, it has everything you would want. Tommy Wiseau plays several characters- badly. Especially off-putting is his attempt to play an "all-American boy" about 1/3 his real age. The other performances vary from incompetent, to lazy, to "just mailing it in," although an all-time list of best acting talent ever couldn't make anything out of the writing.And what the Hell is going on with those bizarre bumpers between scenes? Also: every single scene feels like one of the "acting" scenes in a porn film. It takes rare anti-talent to do that. Contributing to that vibe is the single-camera shots with no POV cuts, combined with sets that scream "dollar store." Or the number of times that the scenes really do involve sleazy attempts by one character to get it on with another, but done in such a robotic way as to be off-putting. Or the pizza delivery guy who takes his shirt off for no apparent reason.Okay, here's the game for viewing "The Neighbors": load up every bad porn film plot trope on "bingo" cards, and hand them out before watching three episodes. Wiseau uses them all! Oh, and people yell a lot.See it with your friends that you took to see "The Room," and were still your friends after the experience.

MaximumMadness Let's start off frank and honest, because I don't want my excellent score of 10 out of 10 to be misleading for the casual IMDb reader. This is most certainly not a perfect 10 when it comes to quality. In fact, quite the opposite. This is an incompetent, inept, amateurish mess, boasting a completely lack of focus and talent in front of and behind the camera. A cheap, no-budget train-wreck of proportions best described as epic in scope, dragged down virtually every minute but a laundry-list of faults, including...-Story lines that are nonsensical and lack any form or structure. A- plots often go without proper establishment and are hastily brought up and sort-of "resolved" during the final moments of an episode. Sub- plots are casually introduced without any set-up and then hastily dropped without resolution.-Characters are paper-thin clichéd archetypes we've seen before. Characters personify negative racial or gender stereotypes that are meant to be "idenfiable", but come off as mean-spirited parodies of themselves.-Production values are on the same level as a first-year film student's, with cheap image quality and jarring camera-work, combined with terrible audio-mixing and boring stock-music that is replayed over and over again.-The so-called acting is laughable and atrocious. Performers akin to cardboard cut-outs who punctuate their dialog with seemingly random emphasis and screaming for their big "dramatic lines."-Abysmal editing with no regard for flow or continuity, leading to blatant errors including characters and objects frequently disappearing or moving large distances between shots, or angle-changes so drastic they give the viewing a sense of stylistic whiplash.-And it's impossible to tell if the show is honestly "that bad" on its own, or merely absurd self-parody that attempts to come off as "that bad." It's just so terrible, you can't help but think they're trying purpose to be terrible... yet you have the lingering feeling that this might be an honest effort that is simply crumbling apart due to a lack of thought and reason behind-the-scenes.So why am I giving it a perfect 10?Entertainment value, entertainment value, entertainment value!You see, this series is the newest work from the almost mythological figure in film known as Tommy Wiseau- a strange being who clearly loves life, loves cinema and loves entertainment, yet can't wrap his mind around how to create quality work himself.He is of course best known for his cinematic blunder/achievement "The Room"- an independent drama film that became notorious for it's nonsensical script, bizarre sense of direction and so-bad-it's-good style. And it has gone on to become a celebrated cult phenomenon- a sort-of modern-day "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with fans around the world who gather for screenings and eat up every scene in all its furiously confusing glory.And this very much does feel like a "Tommy Wiseau Production" worthy of the same cult-status as that glorious film. "The Neighbors" is essentially on the same sort-of storytelling plane as "The Room", merely lacking the surprisingly high production-value and experience crew of that film, instead being traded in for a shoestring budget. Which frankly, makes it all the more entertaining.This is one of those "perfect storms" of awfulness. In its handful of episodes, it provides enough comedic fodder and hilarious (and unintentional) laughs to be an ideal viewing choices for groups of friends who want to sit back and behold a spectacle of badness.It has become our new go-to for movie-nights, and we have already watched the series (thus far) several times, each time enjoying it more and more.For "so bad, it's good" entertainment value, this easily earns a perfect 10, and is well-worth checking out for fans of such films and series. Particularly those already familiar with Wiseu's "The Room."

Zalman King of Nothing Ugly, monstrous, revolting, racist, execrable, incomprehensible, inept, incompetent, incomprehensible, incoherent, unwatchable. This show looks like '80s video porn without the sex. The audio sounds like nails on a blackboard. The actors apparently had to go slumming after California's condom law was passed. No one in this show goes unscathed. I never saw "The Room", but I knew going in "The Neighbors" was going to be bad. It is beyond bad. It is an abomination. It is a thing that should not be. This is NOT one of those inept things that is entertaining in spite of itself. It is the most unpleasant thing you will ever see. This cannot be overstated. Do not watch.

stsinger The long promised (threatened?) television sitcom "The Neighbors" from Tommy Wiseau, the man behind "The Room" has finally arrived on Hulu Plus. There are simply no words in the English -- or any other --language to describe this series. Alternately hilarious and bizarre, I guarantee you will sit in front of the television set slack-jawed as this one of a kind show unfolds before you. Filled with weird characters (crazy lady who lives with a chicken, women who always wears a bikini, Tommy Wiseau himself playing two characters each with a more ridiculous wig), inane running jokes and outrageous dialog, this is everything you could have hoped for from the mastermind of "The Room" and even more.The sitcom follows a large group of people who live in an apartment complex. The main character is the building's manager Charlie (played by Wiseau), and each episode something new happens that the cast reacts to. After every scene, there is a stock shot of the apartment building with odd techno music that might have subliminal messages in it because I defy you to not be humming it after the fourth or fifth time it shows up in the half-hour. And keep a lookout for the official "Tommy Wiseau Underwear" that several cast members wear and show off!!If you enjoyed "The Room" -- or even if you didn't -- then do not hesitate one second to watch this series.