Critic Reviews

The Feud On Shelbury Drive does a fine job of spinning what seems to be a small dispute into a thriller that anyone who has an issue with their neighbors can relate to.

The Feud has soap opera levels of dialogue and acting, with everyone from Emma’s overbearing solicitor to paranoid Nick portrayed in the broadest strokes. But it nevertheless paints a fascinating picture of an outwardly blissful middle-class neighbourhood that is, in reality, a hotbed of illicit affairs and passive-aggressive parking.

To its credit, this drama cleverly taps into a modern malaise and, despite its mundanity and often shonky dialogue, harnesses the sheer toxicity of neighbour disputes that in real life can escalate into court cases, violence and worse.

What’s worse is that The Feud begins with a clichéd set-up and then compounds the error by telling the story in an entirely hackneyed manner.