Possible Spoilers: It takes a real sense of entitlement and shameful arrogance to move into an HOA community and throw around your weight in a most un-Christianlike manner in order just to get your way. Jesus would be positively ashamed. Jeremy Morris has every right to put up a full-on Clark Griswold display of trinkets and lights on a property which has no rules against it. It's not his neighbors' fault that he chooses to battle the HOA rules that are already in place. This has nothing to do with religious persecution and everything to do with a grown man throwing a hissy fit that would put a two-year-old to shame. Also, I would like to know what happened to the third dog who had a loving home with the elderly woman. Because lord knows there's nothing that screams "Christian" like sending a poor defenseless creature out of it's loving home for nothing other than spite. Spreading Christmas cheer much? Bah humbug, Jeremy Morris!! Here's to a lifetime of stockings full of coal for your bad behavior.

I'm not a fan of HOA's in the least bit but I'm even less of a fan of bullies. And even less of bullies who feel entitled to throw their weight around to get what they want and revel in wasting the time and resources of the world at large. I hope Mr. Morris watches himself in the film, reads these reviews, and takes a good long hard look in the mirror and realizes everyone knows he never acted in good faith nor is he a good Christian. News flash, Morris, Christmas isn't about lights and gross displays of entitlement and the desire to be the center of attention. It's about loving and helping OTHERS!! You could have helped so many people with the money you spent on your show.

For the record, the filmmakers did an excellent job with the story.

Continuing on watching all of the movies on Apple TV, I came to "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas", a Christmas documentary that didn't go the way I thought it was going to at all. I thought it might be a gentle documentary about neighbours who live near people who put up a lot of Christmas lights - instead it's a bitter dispute between a maniac and the housing authority that he picks a fight with.

Jeremy Morris loves Christmas, and enjoys organising a neighbourhood celebration. With the scale of the event increasing, the Morris family look to move to a community in Idaho, with a bigger area outside the house for the event. The house though falls under the jurisdiction of the Local Homeowners Association though and they aren't keen on event taking place. Conflict between the parties increase and ends up in court, where Morris argues that it's religious persecution that has taken place.

I try, with documentaries, to review the film and not the subjects but with this one I detested both sides so much that I can't ignore it. Homeowners Associations are ridiculous, in their very concept. If you own the land, the only laws that need to be adhered to are the laws of the land, not arbitrary restrictions on what you do with it. That said, Morris isn't interested in the result as much as he's spoiling for the fight, aching for the publicity he's generating and oblivious, or at least unfeeling, of the cost it having on his wife.

The documentary does, I think, try it's best to display both sides of the fight evenly, until eventually Mr Morris can't help himself. They have footage of several of the events, though stuff matching the stories provided by both sides can't be verified. The main problem is that we're not at the end of the story when the documentary is over. We're at the appeals stage and the ultimate outcome might still be several years away from taking place. I also don't feel I came away with any proper insight as to the legal process, as to why specifically the judge overruled the jury decision.

Maybe a revisit once the next decision has come in is in order, but for now, this is a sad, but mostly incomplete tale.