This show is the epitome of rich yuppie culture and ideals, it's truly astonishing. Ellen has given up all energy, the show is in cinematic ratio? The entire time it feels like the show takes itself too seriously and wants to reinvent television, whoever made this has never watched HGTV before and has no idea how the perfected formula works.
The show fails the basics of good competition shows. No establishing what everyone is doing on the first introduction of a challenge, contestants aren't all introduced when instead only a few are focused on over the entire series, off kilter "for camera" interviews happen which look insanely cheap compared to the rest of the show, there's constant cutting between the same people within minutes if each other in a failed attempt to build drama when it needs to be long segments per until it's warranted.
The entire time there's an underlying feeling of how far everyone who made this show is from normal people. The most insane example being that each contestant works from their home workspace, now that's not particularly bad, the problem is that each week they return to Los Angeles to present their creations to the judges. How much travelling was done? How much money was spent on plane tickets for every single person to go from places like Mexico City and Rhode Island to L.A. each week? It's never mentioned or explained what the process was for getting everything to the judges, but it's no doubt excessively expensive. Other examples of this include all designers use only their first names in graphics, too good for a last name? Ok.
While there's so many gripes I could go on about, the final one I have is the actual judging. There's never a outline for what's taken into consideration each vote. As with any show like this some furniture isn't finished in time and it doesn't work! Other times it's the least practical thing you've ever seen that no person on a budget would buy. Yet multiple times those things are ignored for the looks of each object.
Also, while I don't care for Ellen she seems to completely be disengaged. She only appears in half the episodes and there's no documented footage of her actually seeing the furniture. The ending scene makes it clearly Ellen didn't even check in on the competition as when she greets the winner, they ask Ellen "Wow, you loved my furniture?" and she responds with a generic yet surprised "Of course! I love your work" and then proceeds to get drunk with them. There's no mention of anything the winner did, of the backstory of the contestant.
It's a bad show, you should only watch it to learn what bad TV looks like so you don't make the same mistakes.
Review by MarconanBlockedParent2021-05-24T10:10:14Z
This show is the epitome of rich yuppie culture and ideals, it's truly astonishing. Ellen has given up all energy, the show is in cinematic ratio? The entire time it feels like the show takes itself too seriously and wants to reinvent television, whoever made this has never watched HGTV before and has no idea how the perfected formula works.
The show fails the basics of good competition shows. No establishing what everyone is doing on the first introduction of a challenge, contestants aren't all introduced when instead only a few are focused on over the entire series, off kilter "for camera" interviews happen which look insanely cheap compared to the rest of the show, there's constant cutting between the same people within minutes if each other in a failed attempt to build drama when it needs to be long segments per until it's warranted.
The entire time there's an underlying feeling of how far everyone who made this show is from normal people. The most insane example being that each contestant works from their home workspace, now that's not particularly bad, the problem is that each week they return to Los Angeles to present their creations to the judges. How much travelling was done? How much money was spent on plane tickets for every single person to go from places like Mexico City and Rhode Island to L.A. each week? It's never mentioned or explained what the process was for getting everything to the judges, but it's no doubt excessively expensive. Other examples of this include all designers use only their first names in graphics, too good for a last name? Ok.
While there's so many gripes I could go on about, the final one I have is the actual judging. There's never a outline for what's taken into consideration each vote. As with any show like this some furniture isn't finished in time and it doesn't work! Other times it's the least practical thing you've ever seen that no person on a budget would buy. Yet multiple times those things are ignored for the looks of each object.
Also, while I don't care for Ellen she seems to completely be disengaged. She only appears in half the episodes and there's no documented footage of her actually seeing the furniture. The ending scene makes it clearly Ellen didn't even check in on the competition as when she greets the winner, they ask Ellen "Wow, you loved my furniture?" and she responds with a generic yet surprised "Of course! I love your work" and then proceeds to get drunk with them. There's no mention of anything the winner did, of the backstory of the contestant.
It's a bad show, you should only watch it to learn what bad TV looks like so you don't make the same mistakes.