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[telophase]

Over at The Toast, Mallory Ortberg nails House Hunters International.

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[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Those were funny even though I still haven't ever got around to trying to watch HHI (I'm not even sure I can here in the UK). Does remind me a bit of shows we have here, though the only one I can remember off the top of my head is Location, Location, Location. I find the house buyers tend to be unreasonably picky, but at the same time the hosts/ realtors never stick to showing them around houses within their budgets either because what's an extra 50-150,000?

I much prefer watching Grand Designs anyway, though even there they have some crazy people that decide they want to make eco-friendly houses out of tires (that one was actually pretty good) or try out a revolutionary new type of styrofoam that'll probably not last 50 years.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And who knows how much of the problem is the house hunters and how much is the producers trying to create drama? (I mean, really: what does it need drama for?)

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. I've always wondered about that. I don't watch these types of shows for drama, I watch them because I get to see interesting houses in beautiful locations I'm never going to afford/ live in myself, I don't really care who is buying them or about their painfully manufactured woes.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I delete most of the House Hunters International in Canada and Australia, because the houses look too much like American ones, and many of the Caribbean/Central American shows because the people are looking at generic condos and not interesting local architecture. Much as I find the "We want LOCAL CHARM" attitude condescending, because that often means living up to a stereotyped view of what foreigners think the locals ought to live in instead of what most of the locals actually live in, I do like to see those houses. :D