"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is a strange affair . The format is simple;- deserving all America family (Mom, Dad and at least three "little ones"), are in dire need of a new home. One of the kids is disabled, mom has multiple sclerosis, the trailer is leaking, etc etc, so our motley group of designers ( one which shouts alot, another is a southern lisping queen, another is a blond cheerleader type , flattens the family's previous home and re builds a mansion for the near hysterical family to fawn all over with suitable gratitude. In the mean time a constantly cheering local population turn up trumps by pitching in and paying the family's mortgage off , baking pies and initiating group hugs by the score in the background.
Sounds dreadful eh? yeah too right, it is bloody awful! The house usually looks completely over the top, over designed and bloated with money; the presenters fake tanned to the hilt, and brimming with "sincerity", that makes you sick and the excesses of it presentation is all a bit too much. However, I am not ashamed to say that I do enjoy the blatant manipulation of the emotions when the family finally "see" their new house. Floods of tears, mum and dad on their knees thanking God with sobbing Children, locals and builders prostrate with hysteria and me lying on the couch, weeping away with the best of them!. It is a wonderful romp! and just like the ones we used to have watching the likes of "Little House on the Prairie" , Lassie Come Home or 'Animal Hospital' and is therapeutic as it is banal! I have watched it every night for three days and bawled every night
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Have a word with yourself, John - Extreme makeover?! please!
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly I've not seen it but the sickly, spikey-haired, jazz-handed, teeth-whitened American advertising it was sufficient deterrant for me!
I'm glad you enjoyed NYC - even with the bag trouble..