Summary
Typically, at this point the family is whisked off to Disney World and the design team begins demolishing its house and building a better one-fully landscaped and prominently decorated with brand-name appliances and furnishings supplied by Sears, Home Depot, and the show's other sponsors-in one week. [...] the ideal of domesticity into which Makeover deposits its families-the outsized house, the stainless-steel appliances and items from the Sears "Ty Pennington Style" collection-feeds our love of consumption and luxury; nobody tunes in to watch Habitat for Humanity build multiple modest houses.
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Schlock and Awwww
ESSAY
Schlock and AwwwwEvery week, Ty Pennington brings the American Dream to a deserving family. What a freakin' jerk."IN CHARITY," Francis Bacon wrote, "there is no excess." But then Bacon never saw Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which since 2003 has been meting out garish and supersized acts of charity-each more skillfully choreographed and excessive than the last-every Sunday nigh...See the full content of this document
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