The 10-episode series opens by introducing married real-estate developers who have set up shop to film a new home-improvement reality show for HGTV called Flipanthropy
Is there a more dangerous place to be than inside the mind of Nathan Fielder? The Canadian comedian, who got his start on CBC’s, has in relatively short order become the most provocative and diabolical voice in American television since Sacha Baron Cohen. With his Comedy Central docuseries,– the latter a brilliant send-up of reality-TV self-help culture that culminated in an ethically dubious twist – Fielder has twisted the idea of reality and fiction, identity and imagination.
Co-created by and co-starring Benny Safdie and Whitney have set up shop to film a new home-improvement reality show for HGTV called. Pushing environmentally responsible housing – with mirror-plated homes that offset their own carbon output – the couple are hoping to rejuvenate the economically depressed town and save the world in the process.
But as the series progresses, it becomes clear that both Asher and Whitney are using the sizzle of a TV series to wrestle with their own private motives – deep, gnawing moral quandaries that start to bubble to the surface once’s coarse producer, Dougie , begins to needle the couple in order to achieve a more titillating kind of reality television.
Whitney, for instance, projects the air of an ultra-progressive ally to the working-class, mostly Indigenous people of Espanola, tossing off such lines of dialogue as, “I’m so grateful for your stewardship.” Yet she’s also makingto run away from the shadow of her wealthy parents, notorious slumlords who couldn’t care less about their community.
And while the supporting cast is mostly filled out by recognizable faces – including Corbin Bernsen as Whitney’s father, andscene-stealer Barkhad Abdi as the father of the girl who curses Asher – several of the Espanola locals appear to be, from their mannerisms and halting line deliveries, real-deal community members roped into the show by methods unknown., digs into some deep, dirty corners to play Asher.
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