Extreme Home Makeover

I loathe this show with the flame of a thousand burning suns.  Every week it's the same thing.  A sob story that, occassionaly, is actually for someone deserving but most of the time I just see someone looking for a handout not help...  I wonder if any reporters have gone back to families that have been 'helped' by this program and found out how many of them have stopped helping out in their communities, how many of them are finding themselves in deep financial troubles.

But while I can make an arguement from Conservative principles against the way this show works my real hatred is for its formulaic repetitiveness.  Every week we are treated to the antics of Ty and his 'secret project'.  Every week it's the same 'crazy antics' the same trip to Sears, the same faked reaction shots from the families, each of them from week to week squealing and screaming with manufactured excitement.  (Yes, I know that they are genuienly happy to have their new place but  every week it's the same reaction, it is very obvious that they have been coached.)  The episodes are interchangable, shaped the same way every week, playing off the same sappy emotions.  Voyeurism at it's worst.

I felt the need to vent, because this is one of my wife's favorite shows and I have to suffer through it every week!