Talk:House Hunters

message: This article claims 13 seasons of House Hunters. According to TV.com, they're up to 52. http://www.tv.com/shows/house-hunters/episodes/ RainbowOfLight Talk 03:15, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: - Now up to "Season 115"  in 2017 ... what, do they have 1 episode per "season"? 2601:246:0:ED97:3141:60E9:1C07:3A2A (talk) 14:10, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slightly outdated? 

message: The college friend of my sister-in-law was on a House Hunters International episode in Urugray. According to him the show started by deciding the country they would visit, and finding the house they wanted to be "chosen", which was not even for sale. They then approached the owner (the college friend's sister) and asked is she knew anyone who spoke good english, which lead the the college friend and his wife being chosen as the "perspective buyers". They then produced the episode pretending that the college friend and his wife were moving back to this Urugray after going to college in the US and were looking to buy a house (they were actually just visiting for a summer vacation). They also choose two other houses to be the houses not chosen, and had him go through the motions of looking at them for the camera. He pretended to pick winning house (his sister's) got paid and went back to the US after the vacation was over. No house was even for sale or purchased. The show is entirely scripted and produced. It just shows off nice houses in other countries, but the sales are are pure fiction. Mathewignash (talk) 04:15, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent experience on how "produced" this show is

message: "... what's the problem? ... House Hunters was always much more about showing us an attainable reality than a fantasy. The show ... in which people just like us ... go shopping for the best home their money can buy, not only glorifies the dream of home ownership, but makes it seem achievable. ... This plays right into our inexplicably unwavering attachment to home ownership: Despite the collapse of the housing market, polling continues to demonstrate that we regard owning a home as the cornerstone of the American Dream—a perception that undoubtedly played a role in the home-buying craze prior to the bubble’s burst...Showing houses that aren't even for sale at prices divined by its producers, House Hunters is presenting dangerous misinformation about the home-buying process and deleting all of the accompanying complications and consequences. It's turned what is actually a messy, frustrating, often dead-end process into a seamless (and perhaps necessary) path toward fulfillment."
* Why It Matters That House Hunters Is Fake slate.com Nemissimo (talk) 18:28, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
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