Dreamhouse on DIY network *rollzeyez*

[gategrrl]

Mermaid and I are watching "Dreamhouse" on DIY network on cable, and I have to tell you, it is one of the most frustrating experiences watching this.

The house DIY is focusing on is in San Diego, by the beach, worth a half million, and bought by three guys fresh out of college.

One of the kids is confident that he can get loans whenever, and his roommates are tapped out financially.

But really, the MOST annoying aspect of the show isn't the callowness of the rich boy, it's the many many commercials interwoven in the 1 minute of show-time inbetween. 

I'm watching this wondering when they're going to throw their hands up in frustration, and how the financing and "sweat equity" inbalances are going to ruin their friendships. Rich boy's inventor father is quoted several times as saying something along the lines of "well, they're in their midtwenties. They'll make mistakes. I made mistakes at that age." I guess he's right.

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Oh yeah: they were also counting heavily on their friends helping out, and even got the girlfriend of the rich boy to design the addition. The film crew interviewed her--she and rich boy had broken up because he told his buddies he couldn't keep on dating her just to get a design out of her.

She told the film crew that what she designed for them would normally have cost $3-5,000. I think they showed her with the guys, but it might have only been to illustrate what happened for the film crew in the past.

So, in short, they have had friends come here and there but unless they've got an incredibly set of friends...they themselves bug out and don't show up at times.

OMG. The DIY network is so annoying. I'm recording the shows so that we can watch the 10 minutes of actual show and not the 20 minutes of commercials.