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Wow! The majority of citations being at all 11 properties suggests that every one of their flips was shoddy, noncompliant, and hazardous. Too bad there aren't criminal penalties. I hope regulations are in place that prevent Alison and Donovan from just starting another business under a different name. Fingers crossed that a year is long enough to drive them out of business. (Although they already should have lost enough money to do so.)

This isn't mine but a poster on another board said he misses commercials on streaming shows. Even on DVR'd shows he doesn't fast-forward through the ads; he feels like they give each episode a comforting ebb and flow. It's not that he enjoys the ads for their own sake as bits of as pop culture, but likes having a set break from the content of the show where he can let his mind relax or step away to get a snack. Wow.

In order to make a season's worth of episodes, the flippers need to be working on multiple houses at the same time. Ashley from Big Texas Fix said in an interview that they had to complete their nine flips within a five month period. Maybe since Clint actually does (or oversees) some of the work himself, it's not feasible for these guys? Same thing with the mother and son team in Oregon; a single episode here and there. I don't have cable but do have you guys to act as my DVR and let me know when episodes show up!

As do I. IIRC, the mods surveyed posters a couple of seasons ago and the consensus was that Unfiltered discussions were on topic in the relevant episode threads. However, it doesn't seem like discussion of Jamie and Doug's home life and how much she works as a nurse is on topic for Unfiltered just because she hosts it.

This listing says Mina's side of the duplex is 1841sf, which seems more consistent with what we saw on the show. That would mean around 800-850sf of actual living space on the first floor, minus the stairway, powder room, closets, etc.

A hundred thumbs up! Waste my time watching some guy arguing that black provides better contrast than blue but skimping on showing the final tattoos? Bad producer decisions. Bad!

It was nice to get a bit of reality on the show when M&K admitted they hadn't made much or any money on the other two houses they'd rehabbed on the street. Wasn't one of them the shiplap place? I think all the flipping shows exaggerate their profits by not including costs like project managers, design teams, staging, interest on construction loans, etc. I always hope people at home don't decide to try it based on cable TV! They wouldn't be getting the cushion of production company money. M&K also seem to buy houses and not start work on them for months and months. It seems more doable when they were paying under $10K, but I have to wonder what their carrying costs are now. I miss old project managers Lenny and Lonnie (I think?). Cory is fun but I also liked the calmness and experience of the older guys. If you're an experienced contractor, do you decide to just flip the danged houses yourself for a potentially large profit, or take the security of a guaranteed income working for someone else as project manager? I'm risk averse and my acid stomach couldn't handle all the errors, unreliable subs, and general aggravation. I ended up exhausted and in tears more than once on my own full house reno.

Kind of? ;-) More and more I'm glad I watch because I like spending time with the characters and not because I care about the plots.

She really did. I have to keep reminding myself that the camera crew and a producer are in the room and Iris and Keith probably did the climbing in bed scene more than once.

This was absolutely my least favorite of all their remodels. Very little charm from the outside, tiny kitchen, nowhere to eat except a two-stool island in the kitchen, squeezing three bedrooms into 1,100 sf, and the fucking shiplap. If the expected buyer is a single person or couple with no kids, give them some danged room to move around! I probably would have ended up using the 8 x 8 third "bedroom" as a closet and felt resentful that I had to walk upstairs to get to it from the master. I also disliked the staging with all the fluffy fabric and large baskets trying to make the walls look less harsh. Painting a couple of them a light color other than white would have helped. Small point, but I have never really understood the appeal of raw wood on the exterior. Paint those porch posts! And if you're going to add shutters, why put them on one window and not the other? There were only two in this danged place. Just a reminder of how sad and gray the exterior looked:

Nate: "I want a long banquette in the kitchen." Of course you do, because what's better than having kids climb over each other to get in and out for meals. Scooch, schooch, pull out the table, push in the table. Throw in some open kitchen shelving while you're at it and an ugly built-in "couch" with no backrests. The cushion looked like cheap foam with the fabric wrapped around and sewn; not even some tufting or piped seams. Like that's not going to get wrinkled and warped in a couple of months. I think the dad should have had a desk. Sometimes a person needs to sit down and write a card, be on the computer, fill in paperwork, etc. There were already a couple of chairs for just sitting. Functionality, dudes!

I started a rewatch of Scott & Bailey this week; it's probably been 3-4 years since I first saw it. After watching Doctor Foster in between, I can't unsee Suranne Jones as an unhinged, vengeful woman scorned. I'm just finishing season 1 and don't recall if I disliked the character of Rachel so much before, but dang is she exasperating! It's kind of putting me off the show whereas I liked it fine before.

I'd be curious to know how many people subscribe directly to Amazon Video as opposed to having it included with Prime. Not that many, I'm guessing? I can't think of any show on Prime that would entice me to pay the way I did for All Access/Trek. I love that Amazon makes it super easy to subscribe to and cancel add-on channels, but hate that they persist in listing each season of a show as a separate entity. If I put season 1 of a series on my Watchlist and proceed through to season 2, I cannot just resume without either removing and re-adding seasons to my watchlist or else opening season 1, manually choosing the correct season, then finding where I left off. Not to mention that scrolling through multiple entries for the same show makes browsing a chore. Get it together, Amazon! I don't have a TV provider so use Hulu primarily to catch up on network shows. CBS leaving made me click my tongue, but if others also go away under Disney I'll be reclaiming my $13.14 ad-free dollars a month. My sister gave me her Netflix login but if she ever cancels I'd probably go back to my own subscription. I watch mostly low key home and garden shows and documentaries, but it still adds up to several hours a week.

It's interesting that Mina and Karen rarely, if ever, mention HVAC systems, hot water heaters, or basic mechanicals. Surely there are old boilers that need to be removed, blocked sewer pipes, knob and tube, etc. They skip over any utility closets in the floorplan discussions, too. Where are they putting that stuff in houses that don't have basements? On the other hand, scenes of wobbly or nonexistent foundations are practically a requirement. They prefer to focus on the "pretty" stuff, and maybe it's understood that mechanicals are always replaced in these tumbledown houses, but it is an omission compared to other flip shows. Those are high cost items and provide an opportunity for scenes of the flippers to put their heads in their hands and go to commercial with a suspenseful soundtrack. I rewatched the older seasons recently and, man, do Mina and Karen lose a lot of stuff they intended to keep. It's frequently the fault of Tad and his wankers, but not always. Clearly mark the items you want saved, ladies. How many times must they learn the same lesson?

I came into it blind and really enjoyed it. Maybe because I'm not familiar with the source material, but the narration added to the story for me. I enjoyed the arch overtone and comedic elements, I was going to skip it because the only thing I'd seen Michael Sheen in was The Good Fight, where I disliked his character (and acting) so much that I stopped watching the show entirely. But I thought he was delightful here and honestly wouldn't have recognized him as the same person if I hadn't known. Tennant made the first season of Jessica Jones for me and kind of did the same here. His voice, posture and body language were perfect for a hedonistic demon, and all quite different from the way he carried himself in Broadchurch, for example. I can't say enough about his acting.

One of the main themes of the show was how the travelers adjusted to the lives of their host bodies, but I usually fast-forwarded during the home scenes. The Grant/Kat relationship was dull, repetitive and draining to watch, while Jeff was intentionally a bummer. The baby was a plot anchor, constantly dragging Carly down. Philip and Trevor being pretty much on their own was a relief. For whatever reason, David/Marcy worked for me and I was invested in their home life.

My guess is that the show does have advisors who know better but JM thinks wearing a hat and having her hair up make her look less attractive. That would never do.

Thanks for the article @tvchick. Interesting that the house that sold the first day it was listed and above asking was the one with the different colored plank flooring! Michael and Ashley do nice work and their relationship seems genuinely kind without being overly shmoopy. I really like that Ashley isn't prancing around job sites in heels and full makeup. I still want to know how much the flippers themselves make off these shows, though. Are profits split evenly between the production company and flippers? My wild guess is that a channel like HGTV pays more than DIY, so which network it's on might make a difference. For all the sweat, long hours, and stress, I'd like to think the flippers come out with at least $25K or so per episode.

Just as a viewer, I appreciate that Luke tries different styles and isn't afraid of color. It's fun to watch him work. I thought the insides of the breeze blocks looked pretty with the flecks of aggregate and was sad to see them being painted, but the end result was one of the most striking (and period appropriate) design elements I've seen on any flipping show. Not sure about dusting them, though! Just a handful of elements and style choices really transformed that basic ranch into a very attractive house. Love the interactions between Clint and Luke. Clint plays up the exasperation really well. 😉

He seems like a genuinely decent person with a solid family life, and while I recognize his talent, I just cannot watch Martin Short's vaudevillian-esque mugging.

@Suzy Rhapsody, I'm so sorry for what you're going through. I'm not sure if this helps, but perhaps as a cautionary tale? The retirement community where I live has a local online news site that publishes all arrests from the police blotter, and adult children of the residents show up on a regular basis. Typically these are people in their 30s-40s living with their parents and in trouble for drugs, shoplifting/theft, drunk driving, or even battery against their parents. I can't imagine the anguish of parents who have to choose between cutting their children out of their lives and perhaps allowing them to be homeless vs letting a troubled person continue to disrupt their lives into their 70s. It sounds like you're already navigating the difficult line of letting your daughter know you're there for her emotional well being but still keeping your rules in place wrt to the behavior your expect from her.

I would much prefer that non-episodic dramas only have 1-2 seasons than to be renewed and dragged out long after their original storyline has concluded. While I sympathize with the pressures of a gig economy in Hollywood and a network's desire to hold onto a popular property, it rarely works out. Shows start to circle the drain the longer they go on and eventually end with an ignominious whimper. Doubly so if you're not everyone. There are around 218M adults in the US and 12.4M total viewers watched Thrones this week, so 94.3% of the population were otherwise occupied. You could even double the number of viewers to account for pirating and still be a low percentage. The audience is just not that big, especially compared to popular programs of the past. A top 5 series such as Roseanne or Seinfeld in the 90s used to have around 30-35M viewers per episode.

Sorry, @bilgistic. Being put in suspense like that is so thoughtless. My brother-in-law recently had a few medical tests including a 48 hour home EEG. His neurologist's office called on a Friday after they got the results to say they needed to see him right away on Monday morning. Like that wasn't upsetting over the weekend? Turns out his MRI showed severe arthritis in his hip and the neuro wanted to refer him for that.

She probably picked for "personality" because she still believes, past performance and critiques to the contrary, that loudness = funny. She also chose her two closest friends that she trusts, plus Yvie. Things like Vanjie's overjoyed reaction and hopping from foot to foot when Ru said it was a magic challenge make me love her as a person, but yeah. Not a particularly clever or thoughtful player of this particular game. I'd also include A'keria in that, because how the hell she thought her team could improvise in such a structured challenge as a magic act is beyond me. There's no one to improv off of, no one asking questions or challenging them during the performance, no audience interactions to speak of. Did she think jokes were just going to pop into everyone's heads while they were doing their acts? Sheesh. I know Nina was feeling a little bruised from last week when she thought she had mistakenly ceded Brooke the better role in their scenes, but she overcompensated a bit this week and I think didn't allow Shuga time to shine. Nina hogged it, in other words.

I watched the spinoff on Acorn. I wasn't exactly enthralled and it didn't have half the charm of the original series for me, but it was a pleasant enough way to spend some entertainment time. It's set in the 60s and the show tries to recreate Phryne's personal style and fabulousity, but the mod shift dresses and capri pants of that era don't do it for me like Phryne's clothes. Acorn has a 7-day free trial so you can cancel and not even spend the $4.99 for a month of service.