Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

This show is no good without Ty Pennington! I'm out!

You could tell how this was going to go when the makeover team marches to meet the family carrying banners with a name on them.....NOT the name of the family, but of the contractor hired to build the house. After that it was just a highlight reel show for different products. The host and designers are not very engaging.

The segments seem forced and the flow of story feels stagnant. The formula for the original Extreme Makeover Home Edition was heartfelt and exciting, albeit predictable, yet this has none of charm of its predecessor.

This installment, so far, feels like the volunteers are around simply to function as a screaming, cheering studio audience while the contractor du jour erects the prefabricated building in the background. No a speck of sawdust on any of them.

As a fan of the original, I wish I enjoyed this more, but it is a missed opportunity.

HGTV has grown so much and missed a major opportunity here. Be it the wrong and lacking star power. Making the advertising seem more than the family. Then they missed a mark by not enlisting their own design power. Idk, maybe I got to excited when I heard HGTV took over the show and my expectations were wrong. I wasn't impressed.

I almost puked when one of the hosts burst into that room holding a can of paint and said something along the lines of " I've brought some kelly-morgan paint for you" the show has always been one long commercial for Sears or whoever but it is even more egregious in it's lack of effort in trying to hide it now. Not to mention Ferguson is completely void of charisma and sucked what little life remained out of the show.