It was the local angle on this particular episode that drew me in, but I allowed myself to sit down and watch an episode of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" on Sunday night. The episode featured the Farina family from St. Meinrad, which is about 45 minutes from here.
The premise of the show is that Ty Pennington and his crew shows up, knocks down a crappy, rat-infested, or otherwise asbestos-laden house, and rebuilds on the site something bigger and better. Usually the recipients of this home makeover are folks that have been down on their luck, hit a rough patch in their life, or are otherwise deserving of a new home.
Pennington and Co. built a gorgeous new home for the Farinas, but the upgrade in living quarters is only half the point. The undercurrent of the family's story that ran throughout the show – Mom raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for Relay for Life, only to be end up fighting (and surviving) cancer herself – was one that would touch all but the truly heartless. And I'll be damned if I didn't get something in my eye on at least two different occasions over the course of the hour.
The "Extreme Makeover" crew really did good work, and not just with the new home.
No, I don't have much of an interest in the glut of home remodeling shows that are currently littering the airwaves, anymore than you might have an interest in an 8-hour "Beavis and Butt-Head" marathon. As such, I don't ever foresee the series becoming "appointment television" for me. But I can promise you this: I'll never knock or otherwise belittle the show again.
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