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Jones says so much aligns museums and video games

Franchises have built-in fan bases

We mostly skip Netflix series

Decisions are based on guesswork considering show's popularity narrative ambition plot density and other factors

We almost never recap reality shows

Sitcoms and procedurals do not call for further interpretation

We pick series that seem primed to catch on and generate lots of chatter

Streaming has atomized television and its audience

Recaps became a key component of television coverage in the early part of the 21st century

James Van Der Beek shared two photos in his last post before his death

Sometimes series suggests neighbor you first need to work things out with is cantankerous devil who lives in your own head

Neighbors is not sort of show to advance solutions for big-picture problem

We hear variations on truism you cannot choose your neighbors

Best and final episode about Danny becomes bittersweet story about finding one's people as he searches for nudist colony

He does make some changes in his life and confronts some truths about himself

Quest does not go flawlessly nor does Danny emerge at peace with his skin-averse neighbors

Emotions and images are eerily similar especially omnipresence of phones livecasting every side of standoff

Power dynamics are different in the show

Directors of Neighbors are Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford

Something in Neighbors feels like symbol for larger social dynamic in which self-sorting groups of Americans see other Americans as enemies to be vanquished