Just in the past year, I've found myself watching HGTV - or long form, Home & Garden Television. As a teenager, I found myself flipping past this channel as quickly as I skipped the religious channels and whatnot. But now, I'm mesmerized by this amazing channel - especially the show House Hunters. A simple enough concept, every episode consists of a home buyer looking at three possible choices for a new house or apartment, and at the end of the 30 minute episode, we find out which place was chosen.
Everyone I know that watches this show finds themselves so invested in every episode, there's something so voyeuristic about this process, about living vicariously through the featured buyer every episode. Home is our sanctuary - and with a show like this, we can imagine alongside the buyer how exactly we'd add our own personal touches to the kitchen and whether we'd use the second bedroom as an office. When the buyer chooses the house we least like, for even just a second, we feel a blip of disappointment, wondering exactly how they're going to make this work. It's a bit of a rollercoaster ride for 30 minutes, but I find myself on it every episode.
When I was 14, even 18, I would have never found a show like this interesting, and my reasoning for finding this show fascinating now, at 22, is the fact that I'll be on the search for my own place in a few short years, and I like to pretend watching this show prepares me for this life altering experience in some way.
And now I'll watch the rest of the new episode of Mad Men, which I will certainly talk about at some point in the near future.
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