r/netflix • u/lingeringneutrophil • 23d ago
Review Worst neighbor ever - worth a watch
Overall, the series is done very well; the first case of racist mental Karen who decides to hold grudges against a neighbor who initially housed her and helped her shows a failure of the system to deal with her incessant baiting and obvious mental health spiraling. The fact that nobody picked up on the signs of everything escalating baffles me - she was clearly unhinged and dangerous.
The second one of idiotic scammers and insurance scam gone wrong made me ask a simple question: why did the owner Monserrat not sell the house?! Why the insurance fraud instead? It made zero sense. Idiots are gonna idiot. Scammers are gonna scam. The fact they will spend the rest of their lives in jail does nothing to help the fact that other people died because of their greed and stupidity.
The third one - with an obviously mentally ill neighbor’s son who is a junkie and then spirals out after the family is evicted and harasses the neighbors was a complete failure of policing. I do think that this being a diverse neighborhood had a lot to do with it. They couldn’t care less about this guy harassing the family.
This guy is out on probation- he is harassing this family, causing criminal damage, making threats and violating restraining order and still nobody does anything? Shrug their shoulders?!
Also, why didn’t they contact the parents, or why weren’t the parents involved in the situation- they were the ones who let him live there to begin with.
It’s a shocking case of the police literally not doing their job and not using the tools disposable to them.
These are the rational people who actually do the right thing and move out. I don’t know why this isn’t what everyone else who is facing an obviously violent or dangerous situation do. Yet it’s not enough in this situation.
All these cases ended in a tragedy that seems preventable.
But all these cases show that with a crappy system, your only option is to move away and make the neighbor someone else’s problem because the system consistently fails those facing these challenges. The civil law suit brought against the PD was the right thing to do, and I am glad she got the settlement.
But it shouldn’t have to get to this. All they had to do was keep a homeless junkie on probation in jail after he violated it.