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6/10
End results are spectacular!
dmaz-0826014 October 2021
But, as a woman who has some construction in her past, I gotta ask...how does a master/custom carpenter maintain such gorgeous long nails? Makes me think the show is a little phony.
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10/10
Quite a nice HGTV show
barrymn116 September 2021
I had lost track of John Gidding, and I'm pleased to see him return to HGTV with a clever landscape show. Jamie and Rachel are welcome additions too.
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2/10
BAD BAD AND BAD
suzpomz1 October 2021
This plant guy, Jamie Durie, is a mess. He does NOT listen to the homeowners but just goes full steam ahead with what HE wants. He also has no clue about life in the southern USA!

Everything, including the extra buildings in the yards, the fencing, etc. Etc. Etc. Is too "over the top".

HGTV usually has pretty good programming. THIS is NOT one of those!

My suggestion is cancel it all NOW before it gets worse, which, unless they actually LISTEN to the homeowners, it most certainly will.
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1/10
Distressingly Bad
chrismoore641 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
All you hear from this cast of clowns is constantly complaining about the homeowner's budget being small. In Farm for the whole family episode I watched in horror as almost half of this young couple's budget of $70K was egregiously wasted on plants. They never had any landscaping around their home to speak of and Jamie spent $30K to make their backyard look like a plant nursery. The husband was clearly distressed in the show. The wife was putting on a good face. I bet they cried about it later. How do you get off complaining about a couple's budget and then gleefully brag about bringing in 3 truck loads of plants. This couple has no experience taking care of a few plants let alone a jungle. No irrigation to speak of and I doubt a lot of water could be allocated to plants given they most likely use well water. This plant investment will be gone in a year. The end product of their landscape plan was just awful. The beds weren't edged, half of the beds were mulched with the rest left as dirt. The beds weren't anchored by hard-scape either. Just two large garden plots of dirt was dedicated to dozens of plants for no apparent reason. They literally just planted trees and shrubs in rows like you'd see at a commercial nursery and called that a retreat. Jamie is the worst landscape designer on TV.

If this young couple is reading this comment I just want to say I'm sorry they did this to you.
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3/10
6x6 post footing won't meet any code I've ever read
The craftsman ship is outstanding - NOT. The columns they salvaged, a little wood filler wasn't worth the effort? Was the a perfect circle somewhere? The best built thing was the children's playhouse.
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1/10
The most annoyed ever watching a show - S1E4
jamie-8326030 September 2021
This may be the most annoying HGTV episode I've ever seen in my entire life. I have never seen a show before where they keep ignoring the homeowners over and over and over again. "We don't want to jungle"..."We've given you a jungle just like you asked for".

I'm stuck watching the show just because I want to see the end result but I literally want to stab my face with a shrimp fork hundreds of times just listening to these guys.

I am a big HGTV fan. My wife and I watch these shows for years but I have to tell you the two gentlemen hosts are condescending know it alls, annoying, annoying, annoying hosts that I've ever seen. Perhaps listen to what the homeowner wants. By the way that I mentioned the hosts are annoying?

1 and done. Cancel! Or get better hosts.
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3/10
Really??
caughron-6038420 September 2021
John is better than this. Get him a new show. In episode 2 the home owner had a dying deck but the 3 "were surprised " because it had to be replaced". Then there is the "budget" problem. Jaime spends way too much of the budget. Sorry we won't be watching this show anymore.
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4/10
Throwback to 29 years ago style - no thanks
jeffdstockton14 October 2021
No chemistry, and FAR too 'produced'. It feels phony & scripted, with 3 people with nothing in common, just thrown together for purposes of a thinly contrived show, not for actual focus on homeowners.

The 'stars' seem to vie for camera time. No real spontaneous conversation. No cohesion between different parts of the project. I can't quite figure out what skills the woman brings to the mix.

Just generic, contrived 'entertainment' attempt, rather than genuine - genuinely interesting - repair/ renovation show. Like when HGTV was first developing. No charisma, no chemistry, mediocre talent.

Best of this genre have skilled professionals followed & filmed doing their work, being themselves. Worst are slickly produced with painfully obvious scripts, phony crises, showing very little actual work in process. And they over-simplify, which is frequently because the 'star' can't do the actual work (ref Tamara Day of Bargain Mansions).

This seems like a terrible generic time-filler, maybe a throw-away project for an intern.

Don't waste your time.
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